[Resolved] "Preview Changes" button cannot work

[Siong Boon Lim]

Hi Tom,

I notice that the “Preview Changes” in my wordpress doesn’t work anymore. I can only see the changes made to the page only after clicking the “Update” followed by the button “Preview Changes”.

I wonder if you have come across this issue, and is able to advise on this.

Thank you.

[Tom]

I know that the current build of Sections does some weird things to the preview button, which is why I’m completely rebuilding it.

If you disable the Sections add-on, does the issue go away?

[Siong Boon Lim]

Hi Tom,

I only use section on my main page at http://www.ioanything.com
The rest of the webpage is not using the feature “section”.
I am facing this issue for all the pages.
Is this related to your observation?

Thanks.

[Tom]

When you disable the Sections add-on all together, does it still happen?

[Siong Boon Lim]

Before I disable it…
I need to ask.
Will my page content and layout be gone?
Can I retrieve it back later?

[Tom]

It will be gone until you re-activate it.

Once it’s reactivated, your content and layout will be back 🙂

Of course, if you’re worried you should take a database backup (never a bad idea).

• This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by Tom.

[Siong Boon Lim]

same problem observed after I deactivate the “section”.

[Tom]

Well, good to know it’s not Sections.

Next up is testing your others plugin (#1 on this page: https://generatepress.com/knowledgebase/debugging/).

[Lim Siong Boon]

Hi Tom,

While doing troubleshooting for the “Preview Changes” problem,
I attempt to deactivate a few of my plugin on the Generatepress theme, and realised all my other pages cannot be loaded up.
Only the homepage is not affected.

Then I activate back, expecting that it will revert back.
But it never came back.

Now all my pages cannot be loaded except for the home page.
http://www.ioanything.com

Would appreciate your help in this.

[Tom]

All pages are loading for me except for Product, and that’s because you have a folder named product on your server.

[Lim Siong Boon]

Hi Tom,

The WordPress suppose to use the permalinks first.
I think it go for the folder first then permalink.
Because when the “product” folder is renamed, the page can load.
It used to be permalink first, and folder is a 2nd priority.
Is there any way to change the priority?

It used to work properly, until I start to disable some plug-in when troubleshooting the “Preview Changes” issue.

My other site “www.pic-control.com” is also a similar setup but is working fine.

Now still facing the problem.
Any idea how this can be resolved?
Thank you.

[Tom]

I don’t think there’s any way to change the priority.

Pretty sure servers will always choose to navigate to the folder first, and then the WordPress link as it’s using mod_rewrite.

You can check with your hosting company to see if they have any ideas, but I think you’ll have to change one of the names so they don’t conflict.

[Lim Siong Boon]

But then how come it works for the past 2 months?
Strange?
It can recover when I enable one of the option in “all-in-one-wp-security” plug-in.
It actually works, permalinks has a priority over the folders.

[Tom]

There must be some setting in that plugin that does it.

If you don’t want to use the plugin, ask your hosting – they might have a way to do it 🙂

[Lim Siong Boon]

I have asked them, but they (site5) don’t have an idea.
They also said the same thing.

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