I'm again getting error message "You do not have permission to preview drafts."

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  jajsamos911 · Member · Apr 17, 2013 at 2:52 pm

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  I’m again getting the error message “You do not have permission to preview drafts.” when I try to preview drafts of blog posts. This was identified recently as a WordPress issue and was fixed until today, 4/17/13. The blog I need help with is http://thepracticalpsychosomaticist.com/

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Apr 17, 2013 at 7:51 pm

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  Thanks for reporting this. Our developers are aware of an issue for some folks when accessing their dashboard through WordPress.com > My Blogs and are investigating.

  Visiting your dashboard directly – bypassing My Blogs – you’ll likely avoid the problem for now:

  https://jajsamos911.wordpress.com/wp-admin/

  Please let me know if this workaround doesn’t work and apologies for the inconvenience.

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  jajsamos911 · Member · Apr 17, 2013 at 9:51 pm

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  Thanks for getting back to me. The workaround doesn’t prevent the problem. The URL https://jajsamos911.wordpress.com/wp-admin/ is not my current dashboard. It looks like it’s from an earlier version of my blog a couple of years ago.

  Jim Amos, MD
  The Practical Psychosomaticist

  http://thepracticalpsychosomaticist.com/

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Apr 18, 2013 at 1:23 pm

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  Hi there, if you go directly to your dashboard, do you still have the preview issue?

  https://jajsamos.wordpress.com/wp-admin/

  Another workaround is manually removing the bit that looks like this in the preview URL and clicking enter/refresh:

  &preview_nonce=xxxxxxxxx

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  jajsamos911 · Member · Apr 18, 2013 at 6:25 pm

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  Hi,

  Neither workaround prevents the problem. Thanks for trying. Do you have any idea how long this issue will take to resolve?

  Jim Amos, MD
  The Practical Psychosomaticist

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Apr 18, 2013 at 6:32 pm

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  Could you please copy-paste the URL of the preview page that is giving you the error message so I can test it?

  Our developers are actively working on a fix but I don’t have an ETA.

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  jajsamos911 · Member · Apr 18, 2013 at 10:19 pm

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  Here’s the URL, thanks:

  http://thepracticalpsychosomaticist.com/2013/04/29/homesickness-prevention/?preview=true&preview_id=14578&preview_nonce=8b36ef586d

  Jim

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  amightywp · Member · Apr 19, 2013 at 4:07 pm

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  Hi there,

  Kathryn isn’t in today, but I wanted to let you know that I’ve passed the URL which you provided to us on to the developers who are working on the issues. They’re continuing to work on this and we’ll let you know as soon as we have additional information!

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Apr 22, 2013 at 1:50 pm

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  Hi Jim, could you please let me know if you’re still getting the “You do not have permission to preview drafts” error when trying to preview posts? Thanks very much.

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  jajsamos911 · Member · Apr 22, 2013 at 5:35 pm

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  I had been bypassing My Blogs until just now. So far so good. Thanks, Kathryn.

  Jim

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Apr 22, 2013 at 5:40 pm

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  Glad to hear it. If you experience the issue again, do let me know – and thanks for your patience while the glitch was tracked down and fixed.