I’m pulling my hair out with the new preview bar. I think it was updated a week ago at most. It was a very raw ui. They’ve slowly rolled in some of the features of the old version but this is so buggy… especially when reviewing something with client and them telling me they don’t see the changes because it won’t stay in preview mode.
It’s just weird that Shopify would release a raw and buggy mvp to replace a fully functional version.
Hi - I’m not able to replicate this myself, can you share a video of where this is happening with you?
Hi Liam. Thank you for responding. It seems the merchant changed the menus coincidentally at the same time as the preview bar update was pushed so I thought the preview bar was causing the issue. I also ranted a little on Twitter where Max Stoiber investigated and let me know it’s because the menus had absolute links instead of relative ones. I went ahead and modified them all and it now works as expected. I’m new to this forum so should I delete this post or edit it or is this comment enough to solve the issue? Thx again to you and Max for helping with this.
Oddly enough, I hid the preview bar from my last session and now can’t get it to appear. I closed all tabs. Restarted the laptop. Reopened the edit code window and hit preview again and can’t see the bar.
UPDATE:
Nevermind. I just noticed there’s a chevron that is barely visible when you hide the preview bar that needs to be toggled to see the preview bar again. That’s new. Thx again.
And now the sidebar in admin is giving me issues. Once again I’m pulling my hair out. When I try to collapse, hide, unhide, remove section/blocks the admin isn’t responding. Just getting a blue highlight of my attempts but no functionality. I get so confused with this sometimes.
Hi again - it’s possible this is a theme issue. Does your theme have links to shop.com/page? This would cause the preview bar to direct to the production store. You’ll need to make sure your theme is using relative links with /page.
Thank you for responding. Yes, that was exactly what happened with the preview mode. I changed the absolute links to relative ones and the preview mode is acting as it should. the new issue I’m experiencing is with the customizer and also happens across all themes. Theme Editor Sidebar Toggles Hard to Click