Public Post Preview; Special characters

Hi Peter –

Hope you are well. Thanks for getting in touch.

The Public Post Preview plugin doesn’t work with Gutenberg.

There’s a built in preview option with Gutenberg. Have you tried using it already? It’s in the upper right corner of the menu near the gear icon.

Is there a specific function of that plugin that you’re using?

where can I easily access the special character menu? This is also critical for creating written content.

Great point! It’s not there from the testing that I did. I’ll file it as an enhancement in Github for the team.

There’s a work around that you can use though. Not super easy, but not terrible either.

Figure out the html for the characters that you use often. This page should help with that: https://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/charref

The html can be added anywhere with in the posts, blocks, pages, etc on the site. Just switch over to the code editor view.

Find the three vertical dots in the upper right corner of the editor, click those dots, click on the Code Editor option, add the html for the special characters.

I hope that helps.

Feature request noted here: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/8782

I see that the Public Post Preview plugin “enables you to give a link to anonymous users for public preview of a post (or any other public post type) before it is published.”

Source: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/public-post-preview/

I noticed that plugin hasn’t been updated in a while. Would you mind adding a help request in the plugin forum at https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/public-post-preview to ask if they would mind taking a look? To make it easy for them, it would be helpful to include version numbers for what you are testing (WordPress, Gutenberg, OS, browser) and also a short list of steps to reproduce the problem.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by designsimply.

Public Post Preview is a lifesaver for showing content to people who can’t log in to WordPress as a user. We use it with clients who either shouldn’t be permitted anywhere near the WordPress editor or who can’t be bothered to keep track of another username/password.

@designsimply I found an existing support topic related to Gutenberg compatibility for the Public Post Preview plugin. The developer responded a few months ago that an API to extend the sidebar (in Gutenberg) had not yet been finalized. I’ve added a comment to it to ask for an update.

Perfect! Good find. ??

@designsimply Thanks to you and @lizkarkoski for your help!

@haveanepiphany Thanks for the input on this! I use the plugin the same way you do. It is a god send for agencies who need to share unpublished pages with clients. This type of previewing should really be integrated into the core.

@lizkarkoski Yes, us copy creators do need access to the special characters. Thank you for adding the feature ticket to Github!

@myinternetscout the em dash, amirite?

@haveanepiphany yeah.. and the non-breaking space (for orphans and widows in subheadings) and accented vowels for words of Spanish and French origin.

Just as a work around: You can open the Gutenberg post via Classic Editor to access the checkbox and link portion of the post, to get your public preview link, just don’t edit anything else…

Yes, it becomes a little cumbersome if you published multiple posts a day…. it does work for me on various sites:-)

A few months back I saw a mockup by Dominik @ocean90 so it might only be for a little while

Nice! Thanks for the workaround, @bph

You are certainly welcome!

Paging @myinternetscout: might be time to jump in on the discussion at Github. (Edit: perhaps even better yet, please consider adding your thoughts here.)

• This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by David G. Johnson.

@myinternetscout – Happy to help ??