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Hi,

I’ve exhausted efforts trying to figure out how to preview a blog post and am hoping I’ve overlooked something really obvious.

I need to preview my post in all it’s styled glory. I’ve tried using LG live look and have had no luck installing it.

How do I do preview my post before making it live?

Thanks,
Neo

Neo,

You could use EE’s native Live Look feature which allows you to set a Live Look template in your Weblog Preferences.

You will see this link in your Edit page. This link allows you to view the entry in a template of your choice.

Does this help?

Thanks John,

I knew it was something obvious.

Currently I can only ‘live look’ entries that are ‘open’. Is there a way for me to view entries that are closed or pending? I’m looking for a way to accurately draft my entries before making them live.

Cheers,
Neo

You can, of course, have EE show only “open” articles to the general public but all statuses (including “draft” and “open”, say) to Superadmins. That way you’d draft an article, publish it with a status of “draft” and review it live on the site; it still won’t be seen by other users until you change it to “open”. Makes sense?

Thanks Ingmar,

Yep, that makes sense.

I’ve created a new status called “pending” and have set that to “not pending” in my entry tag.

How do I enable Superadmins to now view it?

Right now I can’t see it as a Super - neither can anyone else which is a start.

You’ll have to use a conditional in your template, like so:

{if logged_in_group_id == "1"}
   {exp:channel:entries status="open|pending" ... }
      {title}
   {/exp:channel:entries}
{if:else}
   {exp:channel:entries status="open" ... }
      {title}
   {/exp:channel:entries}
{/if}

Something like that, anyway.

Thank you, that’s what I was looking for 😊

I’ve tweaked my templates and it’s working well.

Glad that solution is working for you. Feel free to start a new thread if you have any more questions.