[Donna]

Is there a way to see my page while I’m working in Settings? With every little change I make in Settings, I want see the results on my page. So I have to go up to the bar to Visit Site, find what I just changed, then when finished have to go back to the bar to return to my admin page, click on Dashboard, click on Appearances, click on Parabola Settings, then click open the Settings area in which I was working…and try to remember where I just was! I must do this a zillion times a day; SO tedious and time consuming. Am I missing some very obvious, simple thing?

It would be great if I could stay on my page and do all the Settings work from there. I.e., as I click on each element on my page, the Settings choices appeared right there. Then I could see the results immediately and make changes very easily. It would eliminate the constant page flipping back and forth…which is quickly making this very unappealing to me.

Any help for the newbie?

[Jim King]

Hi Donna

I know the frustration of that, I tend to open the dashboard then go to visit site and right click and open the site view in a new tab in the browser. Make the changes in the Dashboard and just click the site view tab and refresh.

So switching between the tabs gets easier than trying to do it all on a single page.

I hope this helps

Jim..

[Donna]

Oh my gosh Jim, thank you! So much easier. I had actually tried that several frustrations back but it hadn’t worked; it seems I had omitted one little step: Refresh. Head smack.

Thank you again,
Donna

[Zed]

Wordpress tried to do this via the “Customizer” (Appearance > Customizer), but that tool is far from supporting everything we need to build the whole array of options included.

The best way to do it is use two open tabs, one on the settings, one on the site and refresh the site tab after you make changes (and save them) in the first tab.

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