Can I recover a post deleted by WordPress?
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Staff do not delete posts without explanation.
To locate draft POSTS Dashboard > Posts > All Post > Drafts
http://erosthanatosbrooklyn.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=postTo locate draft PAGES Dashboard > Pages> All Pages > Drafts
http://erosthanatosbrooklyn.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=pageProvided you did not create the post in the new Beep Beep Boop editor where it’s saved only on your browser, and is not auto-saved to the servers for your blog you may be able to recover a lost post or page.
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/)
I recommend:
1. Always create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog at
2. Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New
3. Immediately after creating a post and entering a title click the save draft link. Thereafter, “click save draft” frequently.
4. Always allow pages to fully load before clicking any other links.
5. Never leave a post or page open for content creation or editing and walk away from it, or open another tab in the same blog and work on something else while it is still open. Save it properly and return to edit it later.
6. Use an offline blog editor so you have backups on your own computer http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/If you cannot locate a revision or restore from Trash then the content has been lost and cannot be recovered.
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Thank you for your prompt and informative response. I’m afraid that either there was some glitch or my account has been hacked. This was a published post, 1 day old. Discovered it was deleted by clicking on my Facebook link to the post. Does WordPRess keep a log of ip addresses with each sign-in?
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Yes records are kept and I tagged this thread for a Staff follow-up. Please subscribe to it so you are notified when they respond.
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Thank you again. Just for the record, I want to include that in my Stats page, under ‘TOP POSTS & PAGES,’ there is now a link, ‘#718 (untitled)’. This leads to a post apparently of a draft I’m still working on–unpublished. I’m not certain why it appears in this field as here lists only published posts. The post also does not appear in the side bar under ‘Table of Contents’ where my other published posts are listed as it should if it were ‘published’ (though, again, this is actually one of my drafts). Furthermore, my blog sets to tweet with each published post. This tweet in fact demonstrates that the post I’m seeking to recover, ‘acid for blood #9: indelible ink #2’ was published but now somehow deleted. It displays the micro link customarily used in tweets that should lead to the now deleted post, but instead now leads to this phantom post, ‘#718 (untitled)’.
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In other words, I have no idea who made this post, and wonder why it links to the apparently deleted post I wish to recover.
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Here is the apparently deleted post as I shared it on Facebook: <div id=”fb-root”></div> <script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1”; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, ‘script’, ‘facebook-jssdk’));</script>
<div class=”fb-post” data-href=”https://www.facebook.com/BittersweetBrooklyn/posts/860494337315783″ data-width=”466″><div class=”fb-xfbml-parse-ignore”>Post by Bittersweet Brooklyn.</div></div> -
Did you create it using the new Beep Beep Boop editor? That does not engage the autosave. Use the Classic Editor to avoid this issue in future.
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I’m going to say ‘yes’ though I don’t know if I am using anything ‘new’ over anything ‘old’–I am new to WordPress. When I was drafting then publishing I did get the whole ‘Beep Beep Boop.’ But, again, this post was successfully published. I accessed it multiple times over a day to test link from other platforms. It wasn’t a draft that I failed to save or autosave.
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Your post was not deleted, it was edited and saved as a draft without title. Visit this post editor page:
https://erosthanatosbrooklyn.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=718&action=edit
This post has the URL mentioned in your Facebook post provided below, and includes the post ID mentioned in your stats. Click on “Browse” next to revisions to see its edit history to track down when you may have saved it as Draft on accident.
Just hit Publish to make the post live again, although you may want to activate one of your previous revisions, revise the post yourself, to make sure it includes all the content you want like a title.
Best,
-Alex G.
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