Disappearing blog post!

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  simonwoodhonours · Member · Mar 21, 2013 at 4:32 am

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  I made a lengthy blog post yesterday at approximately 4.00pm Australian time – it appeared on my blog page and was published successfully – as i could see the post on both my browser and also my phone. Today, when i went to show my lecturer this post, it had disappeared and was not even present in my drafts folder, despite the hours that i spent working on the post yesterday.

  Can you please help me recover and publish this post to my blog?

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 21, 2013 at 4:55 am

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  Check the other threads on this tag https://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/missing-post and see if one has an answer.

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  jannabubley · Member · Apr 12, 2013 at 5:16 pm

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  did you ever find an answer to this? The same thing happened to me!

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  timethief · Member · Apr 12, 2013 at 5:21 pm

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  You may be able to recover a post revision. 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. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/

  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 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

  Did you create your post on the dashboard of your own blog?
  Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New

  Or did you create your post on the front page of WordPress.com?
  http://wordpress.com/#!/post/

  Advice:
  Create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog
  Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New

  Or use an offline blog editor so you always have backups on your own computer http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/