Can a blog using the Quick Posts feature be retrieved if lost?
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I was writing a quick post and accidentally opened another page over the page I was working on. I couldn’t find the page again, so apparently have lost the blog I was writing. I don’t have that problem on the regular blogging page, since it saves work, while I am working on it. Is there a way to retrieve the blog on the Quick Posts page or is it lost forever?
Blog url: http://nostalgia049.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Not as far as I know, but you can check Revisions and also your Trash file to see if they’re there. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/
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How do I find the trash pile? I think I will stop using Quick Posts since there is no way to save as I work, unless I have missed it.
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Hi there,
If you clicked the “save” there autosave feature will have been triggered.You may be able to recover an earlier Post Revision. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/ 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.
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 by using the instructions I provided 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:
When you start a new post, add the title, set it to private and then publish it. When you are done with the post, set it back to publish and update it. The problem with posts disappearing when saved as a draft has been around for a while, but only seems to hit a small number of people randomly.The other choice is to get and use an offline blog client such as Windows Live Writer (Windows) or Ecto (Mac) and then everything is saved on your computer and when you are done with the post, you actually publish it directly from the blog client software. See here for offline blog editors so you don’t have to go through this again http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/
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Timethief, thanks for the advice. I just found it under recent drafts, even though I never saw a save button, so it must have saved automatically after all.
Thank you for the help. Just found it about two minutes ago.
Andrew
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