Draft blog versus Preview – appearance

  • New to blogging with WordPress (new to everything WordPress so bear with me, I’ll get there!).

    Writing a blog post and getting familiar with the various blocks. Think my draft looks ok so after updating I check out the Preview, and here I see a number of differences which I’m not sure if that is actually, accurately how they will look to someone who might read it (or an approximation) but a few elements looks quite different.

    I should also note that these differences that I notice review the preview for Desktop, do not show when I look at the Mobile preview.

    Hope the below makes sense and grateful for any advice – it may just be my current level of understanding vs expectation vs reality as to how accurate the Preview actually is.

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    It’s not uncommon for the preview to look different than the editor view. It’s the responsibility of your theme to style the editor view to match that on the front end and preview. Sadly, many themes do this poorly or on occasion, not at all.

    IME, the preview has always matched the front end view, given the same viewport size. I’ve heard reports of it not being the case. In most cases I suspect inconsistent caching by the browser. But preview not matching editor happens a lot. If you are unhappy with the discrepancies, I recommend asking your theme’s devs to improve their editor styling.

    Thread Starter nebulous88

    (@nebulous88)

    Thanks for your reply.

    I did go ahead and publish the blogs to see if there was any difference when actually published as opposed to just looking at a preview – it was just as bad on the published.

    I have a horrible feeling my website devs will view this as a ‘request for new work’ which I’m not in the market for at the moment, time-wise or cost-wise. I might just have to live with it for now.

    I did do some cache-clearing in a few places but it didn’t make any difference.

    Thank you for your explanation and the upshot is that it helps to decide to leave some of this stuff for a bit further into the future, and I’ll just have to work with it for now. I noticed it’s even things like what the Quote block looks like in the editor (for instance), then in Preview it looks different (both in the Preview view, and in the published Blog) – so I’m picking and editing based on a design which I think will work – and then it looks different after. At least I’m understanding this a bit more so that’s half the battle.

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    FWIW, personally, I’ve given up thinking the editor appearance looks anything like preview or published. It’s nice when it does, but I don’t expect it. In the editor I focus on content and don’t worry much about appearance. Once the content is right, I’ll preview or private publish to see what sort of appearance issues might exist and adjust as necessary.

    Thread Starter nebulous88

    (@nebulous88)

    Thanks bcworkz.

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