Accessing revisions/autosaves of draft post

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  hankminmaxyourlife · Member · May 15, 2017 at 1:41 am

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  I had written an outline of a 5-post series and saved it as a draft. I then used this draft to publish the first post. Unfortunately, I seem to have lost the outline for the rest of the series while doing it. Is there a way to access older autosaved versions of the draft? It was only as of a few days ago that the draft had all the information I needed.

  Thank you in advance for your help,
  Hank

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  carlalberto · Member · May 15, 2017 at 4:33 am

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  Hi hankminmaxyourlife,

  WordPress.com will store the last 25 revisions for each post or page on your blog. You can access your post revisions by following the instructions here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/editors/page-post-revisions/

  To learn more about auto-saves, please check here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/autosave/

  Please let me know how it goes ok?

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  hankminmaxyourlife · Member · May 15, 2017 at 10:40 am

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  I don’t seem to see the Revisions option in post settings. According to this post: https://wpengine.com/support/i-noticed-revisions-are-disabled-why-also-how-do-i-enable-them/

  Since I’m using WPEngine, Revisions seem to have been turned off by default. Is there a way to manually access the post table or cache to find the old data instead?

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  hankminmaxyourlife · Member · May 15, 2017 at 5:15 pm

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  ISSUE RESOLVED
  I used WPEngine’s backup point system to restore a backup from last week; this allowed me to access an older version of my post with the information I needed. Thanks so much!