Deleted post draft

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  musingsbyjohnk · Member · Sep 19, 2011 at 8:30 pm

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  Inadvertantly lost/deleted my post draft…only moments from concluding. I save frrquently, as does, I’m assuming, WordPress. Is there any way I can retrieve it?

  John K.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 19, 2011 at 8:40 pm

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  Look in your Admin section to see if it was saved as a Draft Post or as a Private Post or Draft Page or Private Page.

  Draft Posts page: http://YOUR_BLOG_NAME_HERE.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft

  Private Posts page: http://YOUR_BLOG_NAME_HERE.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=private

  Draft Pages page: http://YOUR_BLOG_NAME_HERE.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit-pages.php?post_status=draft

  Private Pages page: http://YOUR_BLOG_NAME_HERE/wp-admin/edit-pages.php?post_status=private
  continued here > WordPress: Recovering a lost blog post or page

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  timethief · Member · Sep 19, 2011 at 8:42 pm

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  Check your Trash folder.
  Restoring from Trash

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  musingsbyjohnk · Member · Sep 19, 2011 at 9:12 pm

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  Thanks. I’ll give both suggestions a try….

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  musingsbyjohnk · Member · Sep 19, 2011 at 9:17 pm

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  Hmmm…wasn’t saved as any of thte above

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  musingsbyjohnk · Member · Sep 19, 2011 at 9:25 pm

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  See, here’s the thing…I did not hit anything relating to a delete command, but I did save often, which, I understand, is in addition to WordPress doing the same from their end. But suddenly it’s gone, and with it an hour or two of work. How can this happen — and why doesn’t WordPress consider this important enough to respond to my email? I would prefer to create my drafts on Word, but WP definitely discourages that. (Why?)

  John K.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 19, 2011 at 10:22 pm

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  I did not hit anything relating to a delete command, but I did save often,

  As you did save and did not delete there ought to be post revisions provided by the autosave feature.

  The Screen Options pull down tab is located in the upper right corner of your Dashboard. Go there and be sure you have selected the Posts module. Then see if you can locate the draft post again.

  If you can’t then I’m sorry to say I cannot help you only Staff can. As far as Staff responding to you there are millions of us and I have no idea how heavy the Staff workload is or what priorities they set for responses.

  In the future if your use an offline blog editor like Windows Live Writer or Ecto you will always have backups of every post and page your create in theme and publish to your blog from them.

  I’m sorry I cannot be more helpful than this. Best wishes for a happy ending.