Title: Preview Draft doesn't work
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Preview Draft doesn't work

 *  Resolved [David R. Woolley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drwool/)
 * (@drwool)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preview-draft-doesnt-work/)
 * I’ve just moved a WP site to a new domain on a different host. Most things are
   working, but previewing a draft post does not. I get a 404 “page not found” error.
   If I publish the post, I can view it with no problem. But if I then change it
   back to draft status and try to preview it, I get the 404 error again.

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 *  Thread Starter [David R. Woolley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drwool/)
 * (@drwool)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preview-draft-doesnt-work/#post-3447565)
 * More information:
 * It seems that this problem probably has something to do with WordPress forgetting
   that I have admin access. I discovered that using Internet Explorer, the preview
   problem goes away (I normally use Firefox, sometimes Safari or Chrome.) But here’s
   another clue: when logged in with IE, the dark gray top bar saying “Howdy, admin”
   appears. I’m not seeing that top bar when using my other browsers.
 * Another related issue is that when using Firefox or Safari, after entering my
   admin userid & password on the login page I usually get cycled back to the login
   page again. Sometimes if I repeat this two or three times it will eventually 
   take me to the WP admin panel.
 * Figuring this seems like a cookie problem, I deleted cookies from my WP site 
   from Firefox, but that hasn’t changed anything.
 * I manage several other WP sites and none of them exhibit this behavior. I’ve 
   never had trouble logging in as admin with any of them, nor have I had any problem
   previewing posts.
 *  Thread Starter [David R. Woolley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drwool/)
 * (@drwool)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preview-draft-doesnt-work/#post-3447567)
 * Problem solved! (I think.)
 * In the site’s General Settings, the Site Address had a www. in front of the URL,
   and the WordPress Address did not. I removed the www from the Site Address so
   it matches the WordPress Address, and that seems to have resolved both problems.
 *  [AmyOSM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amyosm/)
 * (@amyosm)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preview-draft-doesnt-work/#post-3447922)
 * Wow – my toolbar and previews were totally gone and just deleting the www. helped–
   Thank you!

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [AmyOSM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amyosm/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preview-draft-doesnt-work/#post-3447922)
 * Status: resolved

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