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Blog Draft not working correctly - Cannot preview drafts

Hi,

I have an issue - when setting the status of a blog post to "draft" the preview button takes to the correct page, but the page does not show the blog.

The following is my code for displaying the specific blog

$blogPost = perch_blog_custom(array(
   'filter' => 'postSlug',
   'match' => 'eq',
   'value' => perch_get('s'),
   'section' => 'posts',
   'template' => 'post.html'
), true);

echo $blogPost;

This displays blogs correctly, but does not show drafts (I am correctly logged into perch).

Any ideas?
Matthew Lymer

Matthew Lymer 1 points

  • 5 years ago
Matthew Lymer

Matthew Lymer 1 points

5 years ago

I have also attempted to use perch_blog_check_preview, but no luck.
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

perch_blog_check_preview() is called internally, you don't need to call it yourself.

If you turn debug on, what does it output on the preview page?
Matthew Lymer

Matthew Lymer 1 points

5 years ago

Ok.

I'm not sure if there is an issue with perch_blog_check_preview();

If I call it, nothing works, however I can get it to work by calling part of the perch_blog_check_preview() function manually:

            $Users          = new PerchUsers;
            $CurrentUser    = $Users->get_current_user();

            if (is_object($CurrentUser) && $CurrentUser->logged_in()) {

                PerchUtil::debug('Entering preview mode');
                PerchBlog_Posts::$preview_mode = true;

            }

So possibly an issue surrounding the PERCH_PREVIEW_ARG variable, I'll have a look at the debug and see if I can troubleshoot the preview_arg once I get on my own machine.
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

Can you post your diagnostics report?