[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #33178: Legacy theme preview no longer works when using a static front page

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#33178: Legacy theme preview no longer works when using a static front page
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 Reporter:  helen         |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  4.3
Component:  Themes        |    Version:
 Severity:  normal        |   Keywords:
  Focuses:                |
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 We kept the old theme preview for no-JS and some browsers that are less
 capable (no postMessage I think?), but upon testing no-JS on the themes
 screen recently, the link no longer works for me when using a static front
 page. The link looks like
 `http://example.com/?preview=1&template=twentythirteen&stylesheet=twentythirteen&preview_iframe=1&TB_iframe=1`.
 It does work otherwise, like on single posts or with posts on front, but
 since preview links to the home, that's not very helpful for a pretty
 significant number of sites. I haven't taken the time to look into what's
 going wrong and did not see any existing tickets. It doesn't seem
 particularly critical to me to keep theme previewing for these narrow
 situations, and I think it's a chance to lose dead code.

 Would need to write this up on Make/Core, as it is essentially impossible
 to detect plugin usage in this instance.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/33178>
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