3 months of posts are missing
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All posts between February 2008 to June 2008 are missing- February 2008 is there and June 2008 is there, but the months in between are missing. I did not delete them, and they are not in the Trash. I would like to get them back.
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Hi there!
Can you tell me anything that was in these posts? Are you absolutely sure you published posts during those months?
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Since the account and blog were registered in 2009, it seems unlikely that you published posts there in 2008.
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@RC – they have Posts back to Feb 2007 – they could have imported an existing blog or pre-dated the Posts
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Then possibly the posts are in the place they imported from, and can be copied from there.
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Yes, I did import posts prior to 2009. I don’t think I have those anymore, but I can check.
I thought WordPress says that they back up everything, so that if a blog is lost, it can be restored. What would happen if the whole blog is lost?
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In my experience, the blog is POOF gone. I’ve been here eight years. Sometimes they can restore the whole thing if it’s within 48 hours, but not usually. That’s why everyone is advised to make their own backups: weekly is best, but monthly is acceptable also.
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Can you point me to the article that explains how to do backups? I’ve found one about exports, but I have a lot of photos that I’d like to back up as well as the text and tags.
thank you!
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@ patricedodd,
Yes, I did import posts prior to 2009. I don’t think I have those anymore, but I can check.
Try the Wayback Machine, for the missing posts. Check both the present website’s archives, if any, for 2009, and perhaps those of the source (Was it a website?) that they were imported from.
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Exporting will grab your text based content, including posts, pages, comments, feedback, tags, custom menus and the like (including spam comments and feedback, so delete that first if you have any)
https://en.support.wordpress.com/export/but I have a lot of photos that I’d like to back up as well
Unfortunately, there’s no easy way to download and backup your Media Library files. It’s simply a case of opening each media file in its own tab/window and “save as”.
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If the posts go missing because of our error, we’re able to retrieve them. But, the farther back we need to retrieve, the less likely that the data will be completely.
However, since there’s a chunk of posts missing, it looks more likely that you had many import files and one of them got skipped or didn’t import correctly. In this case, we would have never had these posts to begin with, so there’s no way to restore them.
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