{"id":2964,"date":"2021-02-24T17:10:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T16:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tunegocioonline.es\/wordpress-nightmare-could-not-load-preview\/"},"modified":"2021-02-24T17:10:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T16:10:29","slug":"wordpress-nightmare-could-not-load-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tunegocioonline.es\/index.php\/2021\/02\/24\/wordpress-nightmare-could-not-load-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress nightmare – \u00abCould not load preview\u00bb."},"content":{"rendered":"

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WordPress nightmare
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This first post for TuNegocioOnline<\/strong> is related to WordPress<\/strong>. It is very possible that you will find the solution somewhere else, but I searched and despite finding many sites in English describing it, I did not find any solutions and even less in Spanish.<\/p>\n

Please know that my server is an Ubuntu Server with Apache, MySQL and PHP.<\/p>\n

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The first thing that jumps out at you when things start to go wrong in WordPress is this error when previewing:<\/p>\n

\u00abCould not load preview\u00bb<\/strong><\/h1>\n

I was also unable to save changes.<\/p>\n

Almost everywhere they say the usual things about deactivating plugins, etc, etc. Which is a good idea, but if after doing all that, the problem persists, what can be done?<\/p>\n

A good option is to do a restore from a backup you may have. I use \u00abUpdraftPlus\u00bb for daily backups and every two or three months I do another one to my hard drive with \u00abAll-inOne WP Migration\u00bb.<\/p>\n

But in my case it made no difference. So I did a totally clean installation with an empty WordPress , I only installed the plugin \u00abAll-inOne WP Migration\u00bb and I did a restore from a copy of about three months old. To my surprise when the site was up and running the problem reappeared. The worst thing was that according to all the sites I found describing my situation said to forget that page and do it again. There was no solution<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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As I knew it was not a plugin I suspected something wrong with the MySQL database that the restore was putting back. I had to find a way to not lose all the data but without using the original database code. I’m no database expert so I found a workaround by tinkering around.<\/p>\n

These were the steps:<\/p>\n