Help with Previewing my page

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  dnp9m5vqv2 · Member · May 14, 2025 at 12:30 pm

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  I’m designing my website and I have 4 tabs within the website. I have setup two tabs (Photographs/Writings) to open up to external links like I wanted to. But when I click on Videos & Artworks and Animation which I have setup, instead of a preview page, it takes me to an edit page. How can I preview my page ?

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  sajjadisbrilliant · Member · May 14, 2025 at 1:00 pm

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  Hey there, I’m happy to help with this!

  I took a look at your site https://avillageofbigheadsdotcom.wordpress.com/ and saw what’s going on. You’ve set up custom links for your menu items:

  • Photographs
  • Videos
  • Writings
  • Art Work & Animation

  The links for Photographs and Writings are working as intended — they go to external pages. But for Videos and Art Work & Animation, it looks like you’ve accidentally linked them to the editor view of your draft pages. That’s why they open in edit mode instead of showing a preview.

  Here’s how to fix it:

  1. First, finish creating those two pages and publish them. You can follow this guide:
     👉 https://wordpress.com/support/pages/#publish-a-page
  2. Once published, go to your menu settings and update the links to point to the live (public) versions of the pages. Here’s how:
     👉 https://wordpress.com/support/menus/add-links-to-a-menu/#add-links-to-your-menu

  Once that’s done, clicking the menu items will take visitors to the actual pages instead of the editor.

  Give that a try, and let me know if you need help with any of the steps!

  Also, to connect your custom domain avillageofbigheads.com as the primary URL for your site, you can follow this guide:
  👉 https://wordpress.com/support/domains/set-a-primary-address/

  This will make sure visitors see your custom domain instead of the default wordpress.com address. Let me know if you need help with that, too!

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  dnp9m5vqv2 · Member · May 14, 2025 at 2:10 pm

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  when i create a new page, a new page isn’t created! but existing page keeps showing up in the new page. how do i fix this?

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  dnp9m5vqv2 · Member · May 14, 2025 at 2:25 pm

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  thank you. Will try and follow up if I have any issues.

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  sajjadisbrilliant · Member · May 14, 2025 at 7:07 pm

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  Hey,

  This doesn’t seem like the usual behavior. Please make sure you’re following the correct procedure to create a page. You can find the exact steps here:
  🔗 How to Create a New Page

  If the issue persists, let us know and try to provide more details or a screenshot if possible. To take a screenshot, you can follow this guide:
  How to Make a Screenshot

  Feel free to take your time and reply whenever you’re ready. Thanks!