Theme Preview Bug?

justjennifer · Member · Oct 15, 2007 at 7:37 pm
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Just noticed this today, the WP.com Theme Preview in the Dashboard is returning a completely blank “preview”. I’ve tried about 6 different theme previews but nothing loads. The only thing visible is the top bar with the link to activate the theme or close without activating. Not been a problem for me up to now.

Anyone?
thesacredpath · Member · Oct 15, 2007 at 7:46 pm
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Yeah, I see it too. Temporary digital gremlins perhaps?
justjennifer · Member · Oct 15, 2007 at 8:02 pm
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Thanks for letting me know that you see it too, Richard. I’ll leave this as unresolved for the meantime.
thesacredpath · Member · Oct 15, 2007 at 8:10 pm
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You’re welcome. Perhaps staff is doing something in the shadows.
justjennifer · Member · Oct 16, 2007 at 6:58 am
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You were right. The Theme Previewer wasn’t working yesterday because it got an overhaul. Rather than all the thumbnails being listed on one long page, they’ve been divided over 5 pages. (Hope this is in anticipation of new themes being added.) :)

One more suggestion for usability, if we’re already talking, if we could just get the basic details per theme right there on that page, there’d be a whole lot less clicking going on:
Customizable Header (Y,N)
Supports Widgets (Y,N)
Width of main column (xxpx)
Maximum image width (XXpx)

:D

What else?
dari0b · Member · Oct 16, 2007 at 9:53 am
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it’s now working fine again
justjennifer · Member · Oct 16, 2007 at 10:12 am
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Indeed!
dari0b · Member · Oct 16, 2007 at 10:14 am
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please mark the form as solved.

thanks
justjennifer · Member · Oct 16, 2007 at 10:21 am
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Already done. :)
ezee13 · Member · Oct 19, 2007 at 1:45 am
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the preview function still doesn’t work :(
timethief · Member · Oct 19, 2007 at 1:52 am
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It’s working on my blogs.
thesacredpath · Member · Oct 19, 2007 at 1:58 am
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I tried just a bit ago and it never displayed for me. Just stuck with the transparent black screen, but I tried just now and it was working. Who knows what it took to get the editor issue under control. It may take a bit for things to settle down.
universalgeni · Member · Oct 19, 2007 at 2:58 am
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Now the preview is out of order again. Fx. you can’t see the new Sandbox. As I just said in an other thread: I’ll go to bed now! :-D)))
thesacredpath · Member · Oct 19, 2007 at 3:14 am
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There are several little weird things (preview, avatars in forum, editor still a little funky, send to editor not working well) I’ve noticed and I think staff is still working on things in the shadows.

Get a good nights sleep universal.
justjennifer · Member · Oct 19, 2007 at 4:12 pm
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The link to preview a theme has completely disappeared, but by golly, We’ve Got Tags! LOL

Hope it’s just more tinkering under the hood.
judyb12 · Member · Oct 19, 2007 at 4:32 pm
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i tried switching my test blog to the new sandbox earlier today, and the screen just sat there with the little progress bar going forever. I finally just closed the tab. When i opened my test blog later, the new sandbox was selected and in use.
justjennifer · Member · Oct 20, 2007 at 7:09 am
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Still no preview button on the horizon. ‘-(
thesacredpath · Member · Oct 20, 2007 at 8:39 am
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Yep, preview seems to come and go as does the activate link.
viveksivaram · Member · Oct 20, 2007 at 4:45 pm
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The preview didnt work for me yet on IE. So I installed Opera. Here I get an error while trying to preview the theme as well.

“Error: malformed query”
viveksivaram · Member · Oct 20, 2007 at 4:47 pm
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the error in IE is :

“The page cannot be displayed”

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