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I’d like to be able to view a blog post in my permalink template without publishing it but I can’t figure out how, exactly. I’ve configured “Live Look” to access the correct template but when I try to use it on a blog post that has a “closed” status I the error

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ELSE in /www/eh7180/public_html/brain/core/core.functions.php(637) : eval()'d code on line 66

Is there a way to view unpublished or closed blog posts in a template rather than the simple plain text “preview” button in the edit screen?

Thanks.

Hiya,

Yep you can definitely do this and the code below in a template should allow it :

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="default_site" status="closed"}
<h2>{title}</h2>
<p>{body}<br />
{/exp:weblog:entries}

If you were to visit this template and your weblog has the short-name of default_site then it should show all the closed entries. The fact that you are getting that error is a bit of a tell-tale that something weird is going on. Can you post your template code here so that we can see what you have at the moment?

You don’t possibly have any {if} conditionals on that template do you?

Hope that helps.

Best wishes,

Mark

I looked at the template and did fix some incorrectly applied {if} tags (thanks!) and added [status=“closed|open”] to the weblog tag and it works like a charm (double thanks!) Woo Hoo Mark! :D

Excellent news!! 😊

Glad to have helped.

Hope everything goes good for you.

Best wishes,

Mark