Title: Live preview problem
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Live preview problem

 *  [masten7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/masten7/)
 * (@masten7)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/live-preview-problem/)
 * Hi,
 * For a client’s site When I do a live preview of any theme I get “session expired,
   login in again”
 * Could it be that I have different urls for wordpress address and site address?
 * site: Actual domain
    wordpress: [http://ipaddress/~account/wordpress](http://ipaddress/~account/wordpress)
 * (Not sure if it’s secure to post actual values up? Also as you can see the site
   was built on an ipaddress as domain wasn’t available when being built, and also
   installed wordpress in a separate directory)
 * First question is – is just a problem with ‘live preview’? I mean if I go ahead
   and activate would it be OK? I need to be sure as I don’t want to get locked 
   out.
 * Secondly, what to do if it isn’t just a ‘live preview’ problem?
 * Thanks
 * Masten

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 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/live-preview-problem/#post-3898134)
 * > For a client’s site When I do a live preview of any theme I get “session expired,
   > login in again”
 * Have you tried deactivating all of your plugins and switching to the Twenty Twelve
   theme to rule out plugins and your theme? A base WordPress installation shouldn’t
   have the cookies expire that quickly so something you’ve installed may be interfering.
 *  Thread Starter [masten7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/masten7/)
 * (@masten7)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/live-preview-problem/#post-3898197)
 * Hi Jan,
 * Yes, all plugins are deactivated.
 * If I switch to the ‘twetnty twelve’ theme wont it just lock me out with the ‘
   session expired’ login screen? like it shows on the live preview. Or is it just
   the live preview that’s wrong and activation will actually be OK.
 * This is a live clients site so I can’t be in a situation where the site goes 
   down or I’m locked out.
 * I have the ‘mysitemyway’ framework installed, but they say it’s a wordpress issue
   as they’ve never seen this problem before.
 * Thanks
 * Masten

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 * 2 replies
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 * Last reply from: [masten7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/masten7/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/live-preview-problem/#post-3898197)
 * Status: not resolved

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