I'm currently looking for a neat way to preview content before it gets set live. The ideal setup would be to have a status "draft" that is shown on the frontend to super-admin and maybe other CMS user groups if setup.

I've played with the live look feature but I think it would be nicer to switch the status parameter in the tags depending on the user logged in group\_id.

The problem I have come up against is the parsing order.

This post looks like its doing exactly what I want <http://themetaq.com/articles/a-better-way-to-preview-entries-in-expressionengine> but couldn't get this to work.

I want to keep this as out of the box as possible, rather than a using an add-on.

Thanks!