By Jeremy Morse on Tuesday, 31 July 2012
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How do I preview my blog entry before publishing it? My only blogger is the super admin and all entries are created from the backend, draft is not an option, so I'm forced to publish without knowing how my entry will look on the frontend.

I need to be able to create an entry, preview what it'll look like and then publish it when I am ready so that my subscribers receive the notification email at the proper time of publication.

I tried a way around this by creating a testing blog (with notification turned off) which I could keep off the frontpage, and I would use as my testing environment, which I could then make a fresh entry knowing exactly how it would look on the frontend. However, I have the archive module working on the blog, and this entry appears in the archives (so users could access it that way), therefore I need to know how to turn off archiving on specific entries. Providing there is not a more efficient way (above).

Regards,
I tried to find the PREVIEW button in Easyblog frontend and backend but could not find it. Unfortunately the screenshot that was posted is now not available.
Can you repost a pic of where the Preview button is whilst creating a new blog?
Many thanks, Kyle.
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Tuesday, 15 July 2014 18:35
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Hello Kyle,

Take a look at my screen shot here, http://screencast.com/t/7qRA3q2kE
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Tuesday, 15 July 2014 22:30
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Hi Mark, yep that looks great thanks.
And a really useful feature thank you very much for your quick response too!
Have a great day
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Tuesday, 15 July 2014 23:02
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You are most welcome Kyle
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Wednesday, 16 July 2014 01:50
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Hi Mark,
I've come across the same issue.

Could you confirm that this is still the case please?
That the only way to preview a post is to edit it in the frontend?
And the most user-friendly method to do this for a user is to create a front-end link to the EB dashboard as you have written in this forum post?

Cheers,
G
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Tuesday, 04 November 2014 03:10
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Hello Gilles,

Yes, the only way to "preview" a post that you haven't published yet is via the front end
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Tuesday, 04 November 2014 11:59
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Thanks Mark!
G
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Tuesday, 04 November 2014 20:06
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You are most welcome
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Wednesday, 05 November 2014 01:01
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