Preview Page with Draft Status
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New Hope Webmaster
A 404 Not Found error page appears when attempting to preview a webpage, event, or form that is in draft status. This was formally reported to ChurchCo via email on 12/02/2025.
ChurchCo explained that, in version 2.0, the display of a 404 Not Found webpage during draft page preview is by design. To preview the page, users should change the status to "publish" and save their changes.
A 404 page is used to let visitors know that the URL they are trying to access is invalid. However, users who are simply previewing their pages before publishing should not encounter this message. Publishing incomplete pages can result in them being indexed by search engines and made accessible to the public. ChurchCo noted that pages can be set to “no index”.
Setting unfinished page's SEO settings to "no index" opens the possibility of the page never being indexed. Completing a page can take several days, depending on its complexity and the amount of content needed. After finishing, users must remember to revert the SEO setting back to "index”. Preview in draft status is supported in ChurchCo 1.0 and is functionality that is missing from ChurchCo 2.0.
Paul Cox
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This is live! Thanks for the suggestion.
New Hope Webmaster
Its Events and Contributors that don't have the EYE icon. Pages and Form do have the EYE icon.
Paul Cox
Merged in a post:
Ability to preview an event before publishing
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Shelby
Would love to be able to see how the formatting of an event looks on the website before hitting "publish."
New Hope Webmaster
Thanks, Paul, for responding.
Paul Cox
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New Hope Webmaster
The EYE icon is not available for previewing an event or a form.
Paul Cox
New Hope Webmaster: Thanks for pointing that out. We will enabled that in platform.
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Paul Cox
Hi there! This is the intended behavior as the preview is now available inside your dashboard. In the website editor there is a EYE icon that allows you to see the page in it's fully rendered view with in the dashboard. Drafts are meant to show as 404s as they aren't live yet.
You are fully able to see the page visually from within the dashboard now by clicking on the EYE icon next to the desktop, tablet and mobile icon.