Testing a Page before Publishing

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  yarnaholic · Member · May 26, 2009 at 7:33 pm

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  I’ve broken up a long Page into a number of pages and it also has lots of page jumps between sections.

  Does anyone have a suggestion how can I test the inter-page links without actually publishing the Page first?

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

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 26, 2009 at 8:19 pm

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  Did you try the “post preview” from within the editor?

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  yarnaholic · Member · May 27, 2009 at 5:06 am

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  I did, but it seems because the Page hasn’t been published, the links turn up 404 errors.

  Also, I’ve used relative URLs for the links. Should I use permanent links?

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 27, 2009 at 5:10 am

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  The preview will only work from within the post editor window. The URL that it takes you to is a temporary URL, not the actual URL that will be assigned once you publish it.

  You could make it private and then publish it. You would then be able to see the post but no one else could. When you were satisfied, edit the post and set it to public and then click the “update post” button.

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  yarnaholic · Member · May 27, 2009 at 6:21 am

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  I’ll try that. Thanks!

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  yarnaholic · Member · May 28, 2009 at 7:22 pm

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  That was a lifesaver. Thanks for the tip tsp.

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 28, 2009 at 7:24 pm

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  You’re welcome.