519759 - Preview function in WordPress is broken

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Websites :: mozillalabs.com, defect)

Description

[Pascal Finette [:pfinette]]

When you write a new blog post (regardless if on the main blog or the project pages) and try to preview the post, you'll always get a "Sorry, no posts matched your criteria." error.

The preview URL looks like this:
http://labs.mozilla.com/?p=XXXX

With XXXX being the post id (number)

Comment 2

[Jeremy Orem [:oremj]]

If you click save draft before previewing does it work? I'm pretty sure this is
a wordpress bug.

Comment 3

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

I just tested it again without saving as a draft first, and this time Wordpress displayed the message "Preview not available. Please save as a draft first."  It also apparently auto-saved my post as a draft, since pressing the Preview button again showed me the preview of my post.

Then I did another test where I created a post, saved it as a draft, and then previewed it.  That worked fine.

So there is indeed a Wordpress bug that prevents you from previewing a post you haven't saved as a draft yet, although the behavior has changed since yesterday, when it simply failed silently.  Did someone change something on the server to improve this?

Comment 4

[Jeremy Orem [:oremj]]

I've seen this happen on all the WPMU instances. As far as I know nothing has changed that would improve this.

Comment 5

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Ok, resolving this report, as the problem no longer occurs, although it's worrisome that things on the server are changing and we don't know why, since that could mean the problem is simply in temporary remission due to some flaky component or that the server is being accessed by someone who shouldn't be accessing it.

cc:ing Zandr in case he did something to fix this and can reassure us that it isn't gremlins or malicious actors.