This is now my second post to the site.  My first post was about trying to get SSL working on it.  When writing that post, word press failed to update the second half twice.  This seemed to happen exactly when I was writing about the admin log in portion.

Try 1

I was in the admin tool writing the post.  I opened a new tab and went to the the admin home page.  It brought up a log in prompt.  I did not log in.  When I went back to my authoring tab there was a log in prompt there too.  I logged in however nothing I wrote after that point was posted.

Try 2

I figured that just bringing up the log in window must have messed with the cookies used to hold the log in credentials.  So I needed to a way to keep separate cookies.  The most obvious way is to run two separate web browsers.  However, that is a bit awkward and you  might make the mistake of forgetting what browser you are in and open an new tab.

Try 3

So is there a way to have keep cookies separate in the same browser.  It turn out in most modern browsers there is in the form of “Private Browsing.” So I opened a new private window to use for exploring the site and kept the authoring tab in a regular window.  This mostly solved the issue however there is one danger of working this way.  That danger is that you may still accidentally open a new regular window into the site and thus corrupt your authoring.

Try 4 – Got It!

What I finally settled on as the best way to do this is to open the authoring tool as in a private window.  One of the nice things about a privacy window is that the tab itself is completely isolated from all other tabs and windows.  So it will be impossible for something happening in another window to disrupt the authoring tab.  The tab you use for exploring and checking the site can be a regular window or a another private one and it will not matter.  This is what I have settled on and I’m using the process right now to author this.  I would suggest that this might be a good process for anyone either experimenting with a site as the work on it or even for you “users view” preview.

’til next time, keep trying