Completely deleted pages reappear published a month later
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Two pages I had previously deleted have reappeared on my blog. I deleted them around the 18th of November and I noticed that they had reappeared today, although I’ve not had internet access for a few days so it could’ve been in the last few days.
They were gone from my Manage -> Pages section, something I definitely remember as I accidentally deleted one of them I thought I had a backup of and was quite annoyed at the time.
They were both child pages of a page I deleted at the same time, called Games.
The pages are called ‘Xbox Games'[ID: 453] and ‘My Halo 3′[ID: 417].
When they reappeared they had the wrong link on my blog: http://carocat.co.uk//xbox-games/ and http://carocat.co.uk//my-halo-3 presumably as the parent page didn’t ‘reappear’.
I’ve now hidden them, but I really want to know how they reappeared?
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That is truly bizarre. It’s obvious that staff have been playing around with parent pages and so on, but deleted pages? Truly weird. I suggest you email them.
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Yeah, I’ll definitely contact support once it opens which is still a long time off!
Just thought there might be a trend.
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No, you can email them now. It’s not generally encouraged, but resurfacing deleted pages does need a look into stat, before it becomes a widespread problem.
Support at wordpress dot com.
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Just heard back from support:
Hi,
It’s us.Some code was changed which had affected Parent pages and that brought the pages back from a backup.
It shouldn’t have happened though – sorry!–
Mark
All sorted and resolved. Thanks raincoaster and Mark.
Now back to blogging as my internet’s back. I’ve had withdrawel symptoms in the last week!
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I’m glad to hear this was sorted for you. Over the past 2 days we have had bloggers posting to the forum with Page and sub-page and orphaned pages issues. Hopefully, they will all be cleared up today.
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hi,
I was a bit startled to see 10 pages that have been deleted back up on my blog. When i deleted the pages i accidentally deleted an important page i wanted to keep. I still have the page (the one i want) in an XML file on my computer that was created by exporting.(i using it for a self hosted WP blog). I s there an easy way to restore a page from the XML doc? Can WP recover a single page from their backup?
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I don’t know, but you could create a second blog on here, something like cafedogtest.wordpress.com, import the entire file in there, then go to the page, edit it and copy and paste it into a new page on your blog.
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Thats a great idea…. as long as WP.com doesnt have a problem with me wasting a subdomain name.
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As far as I know, they don’t mind at all. It’s also nice to have an extra blog to try new themes and such out on without disturbing your “real” blog. I have three blogs and two of those I use for testing and such.
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