Title: Can’t preview posts Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Can’t preview posts * [punkass](https://wordpress.org/support/users/punkass/) * (@punkass) * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-preview-posts/) * Hey when I try to make a new post and preview it, I click the preview button but nothing happens. I see the “Save Draft” and “Publish” buttons go disabled for for few seconds but nothing happens when I try to click the preview button over and over again. When I try to go straight to Publish, I get an 404 error page: Sorry, no posts matched your criteria. WTF? Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-preview-posts/#post-1509309) * Have you tried: * – deactivating **all** plugins to see if this resolves the problem? If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s). * – switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems? * – [resetting the plugins folder](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F) by FTP or phpMyAdmin? Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems. * – re-uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folders from a **fresh** download of WordPress? * – [increasing your available memory](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/253495#post-1017842)? * Thread Starter [punkass](https://wordpress.org/support/users/punkass/) * (@punkass) * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-preview-posts/#post-1509471) * ALL my posts are gone, whats going on?!?! I’ll try to deactivate all plugins. hope this will solve this pain in the ass problem * Thread Starter [punkass](https://wordpress.org/support/users/punkass/) * (@punkass) * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-preview-posts/#post-1509472) * I deactivated all plugins but still got nothing, omg wtf will i do i lost over 2200 posts go damn it wtf is this * Thread Starter [punkass](https://wordpress.org/support/users/punkass/) * (@punkass) * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-preview-posts/#post-1509473) * I have WP DataBase backup plugin installed, it will help if I run my latest backup? and how do I do that? Jesus christ my whole fucking site is gone * Thread Starter [punkass](https://wordpress.org/support/users/punkass/) * (@punkass) * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-preview-posts/#post-1509475) * OK I re-installed wordpress, deactivated ALL plugins but still having the same problem, all my posts are gone, and I can’t create new ones. Please help me * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-preview-posts/#post-1509509) * Did you use a new database? * Thread Starter [punkass](https://wordpress.org/support/users/punkass/) * (@punkass) * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-preview-posts/#post-1509529) * No. I just did a re-install through wp dashboard. where’s this problem came from?! what do I need to do to solve it? * Thread Starter [punkass](https://wordpress.org/support/users/punkass/) * (@punkass) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-preview-posts/#post-1509549) * What about my all my posts?! how will i re load them? Please help me asap….. * Thread Starter [punkass](https://wordpress.org/support/users/punkass/) * (@punkass) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-preview-posts/#post-1509551) * Ok I restored my backup through phpmyadmin… now all the posts are back (from the backup file) but I still can’t publish new posts! I tried to deactiavte ALL plugins, replaced the wp-admin ftp files, but still got the same annoying problem. what should I do? I can’t make new posts, my site’s visitors are really going down, please help me asap * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-preview-posts/#post-1509555) * Have you tried: * – switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems? * – [resetting the plugins folder](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F) by FTP or phpMyAdmin? Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems. * – re-uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folders from a **fresh** download of WordPress? * – [increasing your available memory](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/253495#post-1017842)? * Thread Starter [punkass](https://wordpress.org/support/users/punkass/) * (@punkass) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-preview-posts/#post-1509557) * Finally! I re uploaded the wp-inculdes folder, and it seems to be working as usual now! Thanks! Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) The topic ‘Can’t preview posts’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 11 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [punkass](https://wordpress.org/support/users/punkass/) * Last activity: [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-preview-posts/#post-1509557) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics