Title: Post Preview
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Post Preview

 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-preview/)
 * Is there a post ‘preview’ option anywhere on the post interface? I can’t seem
   to find it, but am not sure if maybe I’ve just not enabled it somehow. I just
   want to be able to see the formatted result of my post before it’s posted live
   to the site…
    Thanks…

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 *  [Dougal Campbell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dougal/)
 * (@dougal)
 * [21 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-preview/#post-44295)
 * In the next version (1.2), there will be a way to preview your post. If you use
   the “Save and continue editing” button, you’ll get a preview at the bottom of
   the screen.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [21 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-preview/#post-44315)
 * Thanks for the update, I’ll check that out.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [21 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-preview/#post-44316)
 * Err. I guess you meant that in 1.2 if I use the save and continue button I’ll
   get the preview, huh?
 *  [Sushubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sushubh/)
 * (@sushubh)
 * [21 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-preview/#post-44317)
 * u get a preview if u go from simple post screen to advance post screen.
    u get
   a preview if u edit a post. u get a preview on clicking save and continue. u 
   just dont get a preview as u type as of now. 🙂
 *  [jerryhung](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jerryhung/)
 * (@jerryhung)
 * [21 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-preview/#post-44319)
 * To Sushubh
    Strange…on my WP, I don’t see a preview in those ways you mentioned
   only way I see it is from [Edit] in Admin (which is not really preview) right
   now, it’s more of a trial-and-error for me (which is sufficient) but a Preview
   from 1.2 is certainly very welcome
 *  [Sushubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sushubh/)
 * (@sushubh)
 * [21 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-preview/#post-44322)
 * are u on the nightly?
    coz dougal said Next Version!
 *  [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/)
 * (@davidchait)
 * [21 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-preview/#post-44343)
 * Also, if you implement the draft/private state options ‘hack’, you can then see
   your own drafts or private posts in the normal site posts loop. That’s how I 
   have been doing it for the last three months…
    -d [http://www.chait.net](http://www.chait.net)
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-preview/#post-44576)
 * As a quick note, this sorta works, but sorta doesn’t. It’d be nice if you could
   preview your changes WITHOUT having to make them live. i.e. if you’re editing
   a previous post, rather than continue & save, it’d be nice if you could preview
   the changes before they get saved. I’m going to look and see if there’s any way
   I can implement it.
    I’m thinking of modifying the admin page myself to have 
   a “if_preview_set” and then set all the input boxes to the value of the POST 
   vars, and adding a “Preview” submit button on the write page that loads the write
   page with that if_preview_set tag set to on. I’d think this would be a fairly
   easy fix/way to get REAL previews to work.
 *  [codergurl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codergurl/)
 * (@codergurl)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-preview/#post-44577)
 * [http://www.typicalgeek.net/wp/2004/07/27/post-preview-plugin/](http://www.typicalgeek.net/wp/2004/07/27/post-preview-plugin/)

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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