Blog post lost!

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  curlychaos · Member · May 25, 2013 at 5:43 pm

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  I wrote a blog, published it and now it’s gone. I’m getting a Error 404 message. I’ve followed several instructions to create a new home page, etc. Cleared my cache and cookies. Checked my trash. Log out, logged in. Help! I spent two hours writing and now it’s gone! CurlyChaos and Other Funny Things, the post is called This Ain’t No Coffee Break Y’all. Thanks. Cyndi

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  timethief · Member · May 25, 2013 at 5:54 pm

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  WordPress.com has an autosave feature and you may be able to recover an earlier post revision. Go to Posts > All Posts, hover over the title of the post, click Edit and check the Post Revisions module for previous saved versions of the post. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/

  If you’re not seeing the Revisions module while on the editor screen, click Screen Options (top right corner of your Admin page) http://en.support.wordpress.com/screen-options/ to activate it. Then select the post and page modules to include them. http://en.support.wordpress.com/modules/#list-of-modules Then you ought to be able to go here > Dashboard > All Posts > Posts and locate the post and recover it from post revisions.

  If you cannot locate the post for locating and restoring a post revision, and it’s not in your Trash folder http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/ then you will not be able to recover it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/#restoring-from-trash

  Advice:
  Create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog
  Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New

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