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Theme Preview Bug?

  1. justjennifer
    Member

    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?

  2. thesacredpath
    Member

    Yeah, I see it too. Temporary digital gremlins perhaps?

  3. justjennifer
    Member

    Thanks for letting me know that you see it too, Richard. I'll leave this as unresolved for the meantime.

  4. thesacredpath
    Member

    You're welcome. Perhaps staff is doing something in the shadows.

  5. justjennifer
    Member

    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?

  6. dari0b
    Member

    it's now working fine again

  7. justjennifer
    Member

    Indeed!

  8. dari0b
    Member

    please mark the form as solved.

    thanks

  9. justjennifer
    Member

    Already done. :)

  10. ezee13
    Member

    the preview function still doesn't work :(

  11. timethief
    Member

    It's working on my blogs.

  12. thesacredpath
    Member

    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.

  13. universalgeni
    Member

    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)))

  14. thesacredpath
    Member

    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.

  15. justjennifer
    Member

    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.

  16. judyb12
    Member

    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.

  17. justjennifer
    Member

    Still no preview button on the horizon. '-(

  18. thesacredpath
    Member

    Yep, preview seems to come and go as does the activate link.

  19. viveksivaram
    Member

    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"

  20. viveksivaram
    Member

    the error in IE is :

    "The page cannot be displayed"

  21. myronhoward
    Member

    Just tried it in FF 2.0.0.8 and IE 7. Got a preview in both by clicking on the thumbnail of the theme.

  22. justjennifer
    Member

    Oh heck! If they're going to change functionality, it'd be nice if they let us know! LOL

    Thanks for the heads up, Myron :)

  23. ralphthemagician
    Member

    I'm getting the "Error: malformed query" with Camino 1.5, Safari 3.0.3, Opera 9.24 and Firefox 2.0.0.8. Same error, all three browsers. (Mac OS X 10.4.10)

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