Title: Cannot preview Custom Post Type Drafts
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Cannot preview Custom Post Type Drafts

 *  [dmkizer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmkizer/)
 * (@dmkizer)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-preview-custom-post-type-drafts/)
    - I have a site with perhaps a dozen custom post types (used Easy Post Types
      Plugin).
    - Published posts of any kind preview just fine.
    - Draft versions of Posts and Pages preview just fine.
    - **Draft versions of Custom Post Types show me an archival or search-result
      type preview.**
    - Clicking on the title for that takes me to a 404 error.
    - The workaround is to publish it as a private post, which allows preview and
      normal editing.
    - This behavior began recently when I moved this site from a subfolder to the
      root folder.
    - At that time, I also ran a search-and-replace to correct URLs on the site,
      which damaged some widgets in the database. That has all been corrected, but
      I cannot rule out that this problem might be stemming from that.
    - This is a very big site, with a lot of traffic. I do not believe this is a
      plugin conflict. I have disabled some to experiment, but hobbling the site
      temporarily by disabling all would be very undesirable.
    - I am interested in examining specific code in specific files to see if something
      is wrong, but I do not quite know where to look. Suggestions would be quite
      welcome.

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 * [custom post type](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-post-type/)
 * [drafts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/drafts/)
 * [preview](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/preview/)

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 * Last reply from: [dmkizer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmkizer/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-preview-custom-post-type-drafts/)
 * Status: not resolved

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