Half the content disappeared when I published my blog. Can I get it back?

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  sharon31673 · Member · Aug 11, 2012 at 11:27 pm

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  Half the content disappeared when I published my blog. Can I get it back
  Blog url: http://thegozette.wordpress.com/

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 11, 2012 at 11:31 pm

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  1) were you using Quick Post from the Admin bar? If so, don’t. It appears not to autosave.

  2) can you try using the back arrow and getting back to the version that has all your content? If so, highlight everything in the text box and copy it to your clipboard, then hit Publish while everything is still highlighted. That sometimes helps.

  3) if 2 does not work, can you see it in the the Post Revisions? http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/

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  sharon31673 · Member · Aug 11, 2012 at 11:49 pm

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  OMG…thank you so much!!!

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Aug 11, 2012 at 11:56 pm

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  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

  Advice:
  When you start a new post, add the title, set it to private and then publish it. When you are done with the post, set it back to publish and update it. The problem with posts disappearing when saved as a draft has been around for a while, but only seems to hit a small number of people randomly.

  The other choice is to get and use an offline blog client such as Windows Live Writer (Windows) or Ecto (Mac) and then everything is saved on your computer and when you are done with the post, you actually publish it directly from the blog client software. See here for offline blog editors so you don’t have to go through this again http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc