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  wallflowerlost · Member · Jul 6, 2014 at 2:34 am

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  automatically saving drafts

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  timethief · Member · Jul 6, 2014 at 2:36 am

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  See here http://en.support.wordpress.com/autosave/
  If you need help please clearly state exactly what it is that you need help with, okay?

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  wallflowerlost · Member · Jul 6, 2014 at 2:36 am

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  I am so upset right now. I was just about to finish one of my posts to publish and I have no idea what happened but I pressed a combination of keys on my laptop which sent me back to the last webpage I was on. So, of course, when I clicked to go forward to my post it wasn’t there any more. I wasn’t worried because I thought that WordPress automatically saved drafts while you were typing up blogs, but apparently not any more? Because I can’t find a copy of my post anywhere!

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  timethief · Member · Jul 6, 2014 at 2:38 am

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  If the post was created on the dashboard of your own blog at Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New then you ought to be able to recover a lost post or page from revisions if needs be.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/
  See also if applicable > restoring from trash http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/#restoring-from-trash

  (If you are referring to a Page then see here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-revisions/)

  If you cannot locate a revision or restore from Trash the content has been lost and cannot be recovered.

  I recommend:
  Always create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog at
  Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New

  Always allow pages to fully load before clicking any other links.

  Click “save draft” frequently when creating posts or pages.

  Never leave a post or page open for content creation or editing and walk away from it. Save it properly and return to edit it later.

  Use an offline blog editor so you have backups on your own computer http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/

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  wallflowerlost · Member · Jul 6, 2014 at 2:50 am

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  I found the pages you were talking about, but the post I typed is gone. That’s very upsetting since I was working on that post for 2 hours or longer. Sorry, WordPress, but you let me down this time.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 6, 2014 at 2:53 am

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  I’m so sorry this happened to you. :( Please follow my advice so it doesn’t happen again.