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  carlyveld · Member · Dec 1, 2014 at 11:51 pm

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  I have spent many hours over the past week working on a blog post for school in Spanish, and it was close to 1000 words. I tried to insert photos when I had finished, and the whole draft deleted after it was “auto-saved” numerous times. Finally, I have been able to get 147 words back, but I am still missing hundreds of words and hours of lost time. Is there any other way to recover this if I had not published yet?

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  timethief · Member · Dec 2, 2014 at 12:30 am

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  To locate drafts Dashboard > Posts > All Post > Drafts
  http://carlyinspain.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=post

  Provided 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.