Can I check what a post will look like on a mobile phone?

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  surlybond · Member · May 12, 2014 at 4:20 am

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  I do not have a mobile phone that has a computer screen. When I post new material, I would like to check what it will look like on a mobile phone. I don’t see how to do that.
  When I try a new theme, I get options to see how it displays on different sized screens. Now that I am satisfied with my theme, I don’t seem to be able to access a display of those options.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  rachelmcr · Member · May 13, 2014 at 5:38 pm

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  Hi there,

  You can go back to that customizer (to preview your blog or published blog posts on different sized screens) by going to your My Blogs page and clicking the “Customize” link under your blog there. That way you can see how it looks on mobile, for example.

  Another option, if you’d like, is to resize your browser window. You can do that when viewing your blog or when previewing a draft blog post. If you make the browser window skinnier, it mimics how your site will look when you view it on a mobile device.

  Please let me know if you have any questions about that. :)

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  surlybond · Member · May 14, 2014 at 1:05 am

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  Thanks, Rachel.
  I found that using “Customise” on the “My Blog” page did the trick.
  There is one small snag. I can call up various pages from there that look like my blog pages, but they are actually all sub-pages of “Customise”. It took a while to figure out how to return to the actual blog pages. There is a “Close” button on the sidebar “Customise your blog” but clicking that takes you to the “Themes” catalogue. To get back out of “Customise” I had to close the tab on my Google Chrome. Perhaps there is another way?

  Using “Google Chrome”, I haven’t figured out how to resize the window or tab. I found a help page “Resizing (or docking) tabs” but it won’t work for me. I can drag a tab title around, which takes a reduced window with it, but it won’t dock anywhere.

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  rachelmcr · Member · May 14, 2014 at 10:39 am

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  It took a while to figure out how to return to the actual blog pages. There is a “Close” button on the sidebar “Customise your blog” but clicking that takes you to the “Themes” catalogue. To get back out of “Customise” I had to close the tab on my Google Chrome. Perhaps there is another way?

  Thanks for letting me know about that. When you close the Customizer, by default it sends you to the Appearance/Themes section of your site’s dashboard. I can see how that can be confusing! I let our team know about that so they can consider changing that in a future update.

  For now, when you close the Customizer and find yourself on that Themes page, you can click on your blog’s name in the upper left (in the dark grey admin bar) to return to your blog’s front page.

  Using “Google Chrome”, I haven’t figured out how to resize the window or tab.

  You should be able to resize the browser window by clicking and dragging the bottom right corner or edges of the window. I also found this tutorial that may help with that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MRJQxWzFrI

  Please let me know if you have any other questions. :)

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  surlybond · Member · May 15, 2014 at 12:27 am

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  Thanks for your advice, Rachel.