Entire post erased
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I just posted on afeatheradrift.wordpress. I signed up for the “banner” protest. My blog posted, it went to the new format, I saw the post, and then it blinked out, and returned with nothing left by the the end picture and 2 zemata links. I went into the dash, brought back the post under edit, and nothing is there either. What the crap is going on?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Check the Revisions module to see if a previous version of the post is there. If you’re not seeing the Revisions module while on the post editor screen, click Screen Options (top right) to enable it.
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The entire post except for the end is a long series of these:
This sometimes happens when I put pictures is. I guess I have to switch over to HMTL before I post to make sure it’s actually posting. But I still don’t understand how it came up and then blinked out.
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Yes I know what the post consists of: we can see your code.
Did you check for previous revisions? Had you saved at all before finishing the post?
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Yes, I looked at all the revisions. They are all the same. I never paid any attention about whether it was saving along the way.
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Well that’s not good practice: a momentary connection problem or other similar issue can destroy your work. What’s more, there’s a glitch with drafts: sometimes they vanish. So my advice is:
After you click Posts > Add New and add the title and a line or two, set the Visibility to Private and click Update. Continue with the post, clicking Update from time to time. When you’re finished, turn the Visibility to Public.
(Instead of previewing, you can check your actual blog before turning the post to Public: others cannot see a private post but you can.)
For even more foolproof results, you can type all the text in a word processor then copypaste it into the HTML editor, then switch to Visual and continue as above. That way, even if everything goes wrong you’ll still have the backup text file. -
Yes, I will certainly do so in the future. Nothing is more frustrating that thinking you have just written Pulitzer quality stuff, :) and have it gone for all time. Thank you for you help. I shall do as you suggest.
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