Default preview page

Hi @webwow

The plugin actually creates a page template specifically for previewing your form. If you’re seeing your home page, it means your theme is not using the traditional WordPress template hierarchy and unfortunately that means the plugin won’t work for you. Sorry about that.

If you’re working on big forms and really want the live preview, you can activate the default theme temporarily while developing the forms. You won’t see your theme’s styles, but you’ll still be able to preview the field types, messages, etc.

Thanks,
Angus

Hmm. this is kind of a deal breaker. Should show whatever your actually looking at on the screen. What if the form is not yet embedded into a page? The presumption shouldn’t be that it is IMO. Looks good, but this kind of makes it unusable.

Hi @ocbroadband

I think you’re misunderstanding slightly. On a normal installation, the preview window shows just your form – no surrounding page elements. It doesn’t require your form to already be on a page, it only requires your theme to use standard WordPress theming conventions.

Unfortunately if your theme doesn’t follow standard conventions, then the plugin won’t work for you. I agree it makes it unusable, but only in a very small minority of cases where the theme works differently to normal WordPress themes.

Thanks for your feedback, and I’m sorry the plugin is of no use to you.

Thanks,
Angus