Draft Edits gone and how to restore them

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    barbellefit · Member ·

    I logged into my wordpress account today to edit a post im working on and for some reason the most current draft is gone and has been replaced by an older draft so a tonne of work is gone. Done anyone know how to bring up old revisions? I already read the post on revisions but im not given the option in the publish screen to see them.
    Any help is warmly welcome. Thanks.

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    timethief · Member ·

    Staff have been creating a new editor to replace the classic editor for over a year now and the issues with it date back that far.

    To locate drafts Dashboard > Posts > All Post > Drafts
    http://barbellefit.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.

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    barbellefit · Member ·

    Thanks timethief for such a quick reply. I was writing it with the beep beep bop editor so it looks like it’s gone. I’ll be using the other method for creating a new blog from now on, thanks for that I didn’t know there was a difference.
    Thank you for all your help.

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