Disable preview of a blog post?

[Docthib]

Hello all,
I am in my first weeks with Flatpress, and delighted! (though confused sometimes, while digging through .css or .php files while not knowing what I am doing ).
I have a simple question: can we turn off the preview/display of a blog post in the writing page?
What am I talking about: when I write a new blog post, in the window I am writing in, there is a Preview of the post above. This is cool and nice, but since I tend to write loooong blog posts and edit them, each time I come back to edit the post, I need to scroll down past the whole Preview to access the beginning of the Writing window. Could I just suppress the preview? And how?
I tried to see wether there was a "preview" section in admin.tpl or preview.tpl or default.tpl, but I am probably looking at the wrong files.
I am running FP 1.5.1 (self-hosted) with the leggero-v2 theme that I have (slightly) tweaked.
Any help or directions appreciated!
Sincerely,
Docthib

[RainerBielefeld]

can we turn off the preview/display of a blog post in the writing page?

Hi,

this might be a workaround until you will have got a better solution!
If you tye a dot or something similar behind a Heading, all following contents behind the heading will vanish from preview and final view. But remains for editing, also after having published the BlogPost (in Draft Mode).


Example you see here!

For dropping the preview you type a dot behind the

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[h2]fatal heading[/h2]

so that it becomes

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[h2]fatal heading[/h2].

» All contents after that heading will be suppressed.

When you have finished work and want to publish (and may be have a preview): Simply delete the dot behind "fatal heading"

CU

Rainer

[Docthib]

Hi Rainer,
thank you very much, I will try that... as soon as I know which file I have to modify the fatal heading of
Would you know by chance which is the file that "generates" the page to edit a blog post?
In this file (that I don't identify for now), I would expect a section with the preview (this is where I would put the "." or ":" ), and a section below which is actually the window to edit the post.

In the Leggero Admin menu, it is in
General →Post← StaticPages Upload etc.
And in Post, it is
ManagePosts → WriteAPost← ManageCategories
So I am looking for this php / tpl / css page to modify it with your solution.
Sincerely,
Docthib

[RainerBielefeld]

as soon as I know which file I have to modify the fatal heading of

Wrong approach! As you see in my linked Example (you see here): Simply add a Heading with the wrong syntax at the top of your posting!

In my Example after Start text "This is some text":

The heading

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[h2]fatal heading[/h2].

has a dot behind the

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[/h2]

, which breaks the posting view and posting preview.

CU

Rainer

[RainerBielefeld]

Or even more Simple:

1. Start a new Blogpost
2. Give it a Heading "Test for Workaround"
3. Copy / Paste Code from below to Psting text body
4. Do Preview

Nothing except Heading "fatal heading" will be in Preview.


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[h2]fatal heading[/h2].

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[h3]anotherheading[/h3]
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[Docthib]

Hi,
thanks for the followup!
I tried it, and it did not work: the preview shows your whole message. I also tried with a colon ":"" instead of the dot ".", and also by changing the lines – nothing works.

So I came back to my initial question, and solved the problem.

Here is the process, for future generations

• using Filezilla, download the whole flatpress folder on your local drive
• use a grep command ; I use the GrepWin program on Windows
• search for the text "preview" in all the files. Out of all the flatpress files, I then identify that it is the admin.entry.write.tpl file in the following path: \admin\panels\entry\admin.entry.write.tpl
• opening this file with a text editor, I went for the first block i.e.
  

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  {entry_block}
  	<div id="admin-post-preview">
  	{if isset($preview)}
  		<fieldset id="post-preview"><legend>{$panelstrings.preview}</legend>
  		{include file="preview.tpl"}
  		</fieldset>
  	{/if}
  	</div>
  

• And I "commented" the lines in the <div> block, so that they do not get executed, as follows:
  

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  <div id="admin-post-preview">
  				{* 	{if isset($preview)}		 *}
  				{* 		<fieldset id="post-preview"><legend>{$panelstrings.preview}</legend> *}
  				{* 		{include file="preview.tpl"} *}
  				{* 		</fieldset> *}
  				{* 	{/if} *}
  	</div>
  

• Now I connected with Filezilla, went to the same folder i.e. \admin\panels\entry\ where I renamed the (original) admin.entry.write.tpl file into admin.entry.write-bak.tpl
• and then I uploaded my new admin.entry.write.tpl (modified) file

Test on my blog:
- writing a blog post and asking for a preview: it does not show the preview, only the writing block (which is what I wanted)
- publishing a blog post, and then editing it: same, no preview on top, the editing begins directly with the writing window.

Hope this helps others!

Note: with the grep, I first searched for the word "aperçu" ("preview" in French), since this is the word that appears in my Flatpress admin. But to no avail: this preview function is not embedded in the localized files in /interface/themes/lang/, so you have to know the english word you are looking for

[RainerBielefeld]

Thx!

A last hint concerning my workaround:
Works fine also in 2 other Blogs, but fails in my "naked" installation – simply basic Blog, no additional Plugins! See here!

CU

Rainer