There is an issue with my router or wifi preventing me from previewing.
Is there a way to preview by plugging my phone into my laptop?
What mobile OS do you have? iOS, Android, WP, ... - and what OS is on your laptop?
Depending on which constellation of OSs you got, normally theres always a way to build a tethered connection between your phone and your laptop/computer (not sure about Samsung, Sony, ... devices - they don't even know what they are doing on mobile market - so that feature may be disabled without rooting it).
If you got your tethered connection built up via micro-USB/Lightning/whatever-cable, run 'ipconfig'/'ifconfig'/whatever-command-outputs-your-computers-IP on your desktop/laptop and write down the IP dedicated to the tethered network (not likely the 192.168.x.x- address which is normally your home-network). Enter that IP on your mobiles browser while its beeing tethered and see what happens.
This will be a direct-access onto your device. Maybe you also have to adjust the selected port on your desktops/laptops firewall (if any is configured). Keep in mind that this is _not_ comparable to a WAN-remote-connection - some things might not work - or will work but later not.
Best practice for you could be possible resetting your home-router and reconfiguring it properly.
Have a great day,
Proxy
# Edit: if you are running Windows 10 on your laptop: go to Settings (the metro-app-ish one) and enter "Hotspot" in the search bar. There you got the menu "Change mobile hotspot settings" - just hit the on/off switch to activate an ad-hoc network from your laptop (if your WIFI-card supports this!). SSID and its password are displayed in the middle of the page (to change those you have to disable the hotspot and re-enable it after doing changes). This is possibly the easiest way.