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  jofairgrieve · Member · Oct 11, 2014 at 7:14 pm

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  My draft disappeared. I saved it. This happened more than once. I’ve lost all desire to use wordpress, I’ll be using another website.
  If you can’t trust that what you write is safe, why use the site?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Oct 11, 2014 at 7:33 pm

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  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 I can help you with this.

  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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  jofairgrieve · Member · Oct 11, 2014 at 10:01 pm

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  Yeah I saw this response on someone else’s topic. As I did indeed use the new (as I see it has been called) ‘Blue Death Sentence’ that’s no help. If this is a recurring problem, they shouldn’t be promoting the use of something that doesn’t work.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 11, 2014 at 10:03 pm

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  I am a Volunteer and this peer support forum so what can I say to that?

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  leighluv · Member · Oct 12, 2014 at 5:23 am

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  Try looking on the admin. link. The same thing happened to me recently and I was able to find my draft there.

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  rachelmcr · Member · Oct 14, 2014 at 11:17 am

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  Hi there,

  Can you give me some details about the draft that was lost? I can dig around to see if I can find it for you.

  Also, if you remember the steps you took while writing and saving the draft, I can look into why the draft was lost in the first place. I can pass along that information to our team, as well.