WordPress 2.0: Hide post preview
Published Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006 at 8:44 am
If you're using WordPress 2.0 you may notice one of the cool new features is the post preview. When you save a post or edit a post down at the bottom of the post page you are presented with a preview of your post. This preview shows the whole page (not just the post text), logo, navigation, everything that is on the main page. I really like this feature but I don't always want to use it. Most of the time I don't need to look at it. For example when making a simple change. So it is just a waist of bandwidth and server power. If you read my blog regularly I'm sorry you know that I never just accept these types of things. So I modified the
If you are using WordPress version 2.0.1 then you should replace line 83 in
If you are using WordPress version 2.1 then you should replace line 72 in
Preview is no longer inline so this change is not needed.
/wp-admin/post.php file to allow me to view the preview only when I need it. I considered making this a plugin but as far as I can tell there is no way of preventing the preview page from loading via a plugin. I could easily hide it but the data will still be pulled from the server. So if you would like to make the changes yourself open /wp-admin/post.php and find line 85
<iframe src="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" width="100%" height="600" ></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function show_preview() {
var elm = document.getElementById("frm_preview");
elm.src = "<?php the_permalink(); ?>";
elm.height = "600";
return false;
}
-->
</script>
<a href="#preview-post" onclick="show_preview();">Show Preview</a>
<iframe id="frm_preview" src="" width="100%" height="10" ></iframe>If you are using WordPress version 2.0.1 then you should replace line 83 in
/wp-admin/post.php with:
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function show_preview() {
var elm = document.getElementById("frm_preview");
elm.src = "<?php echo add_query_arg('preview', 'true', get_permalink($post->ID)); ?>";
elm.height = "600";
return false;
}
-->
</script>
<a href="#preview-post" onclick="show_preview();">Show Preview</a>
<iframe id="frm_preview" src="" width="100%" height="10" ></iframe>If you are using WordPress version 2.1 then you should replace line 72 in
/wp-admin/post.php with:
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function show_preview() {
var elm = document.getElementById("frm_preview");
elm.src = "<?php echo attribute_escape(apply_filters('preview_post_link', add_query_arg('preview', 'true', get_permalink($post->ID)))); ?>";
elm.height = "600";
return false;
}
-->
</script>
<a href="#preview-post" onclick="show_preview();">Show Preview</a>
<iframe id="frm_preview" src="" width="100%" height="10" ></iframe>Preview is no longer inline so this change is not needed.