Help. A post has disappeared
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One oof my most-viewed posts has just disappeared. No idea why or how. Never happened before. Is there any backup or archive? Or anything? (It’s longform, much researched, many links – no way I can do it again.)
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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A post doesn’t disappear by itself. Did you take a look in the Trash – https://wordpress.com/support/trash/#restore-from-trash
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Yes, iit’s not there. It gets weirder – it, and other posts, have disappeared from my stats history.
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Hi there @soothfairy can you provide the URL to the deleted post?
Also, I just want to make sure that after you received help from the external developer you hired, you removed them from your site, as staff mentioned in their reply to you here https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/colinears-ugly-pc-home-page-css-solution/#post-4088524
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I’ve found a link I put in a Comment on the content subject matter: https://soothfairy.com/2022/09/16/what-did-philip-k-dick-think-of-blade-runner. (It’s dead.) The developer is still helping me – he’s trying to sort this – so he still has access.
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Thanks for letting us know.
The good news is that the Internet Archive Wayback Machine archived that post so in a worst case scenario, you can copy and paste the content from there into a new post and then backdate it to September 16, 2022 before publishing.
But before doing that, it might also be worthwhile checking your Jetpack activity log to see if the post was deleted and when.
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I can’t find it in the Wayback Machine archive. (I tried several different terms.) I checked my activity log. It says I deleted it on 11 November. AFAIK, I definitely didn’t.
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Hopefully you added the developer under their own WordPress.com account. Never give anyone access to your own log in details
If you (or someone using your account) deleted it on November 11 and didn’t immediately delete it permanently from the trash folder, it should still be in your Posts Trash folder. https://wordpress.com/support/trash/ If it isn’t there, it’s gone.
For the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, on the search line you need to add the exact URL of the post you deleted, which you shared above.
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Yes, I added the developer in his own account. It’s not in the trash – first place I looked! I found a year-old (missing many, many edits) archive of my post in WM (it needed a ‘/’ at the URL end) but it’s in as-viewed format, of course. How can I use that to make a WP.com post?
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so in a worst case scenario, you can copy and paste the content from there into a new post and then backdate it to September 16, 2022 before publishing.
It’s likely that after copy/pasting into a new post, you’ll need to reformat the content. Formatting usually doesn’t come across, only content.
How to backdate a post https://wordpress.com/support/schedule-a-post-or-page/#backdate-a-post-or-page
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