How do I recover lost but not deleted draft posts?
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We have been travelling. I posted successfully in Russia, could not post in China and cannot post in Korea, even tho’ WordPress is OK here. I saved 12 posts in draft. It kept coming up that my connection to gmail failed. I changed my email to my hotmail and my drafts have disappeard. I can connect to my gmail but it still says my connection failed. This is my first blog and I don’t know what to do. It is suemarshallblog.
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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/)
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I’m sorry to be so thick but I don’t think I have been posting through the dashboard. I open my blog so that I see my header and on the top right it says something like New Post. I click that then have been saving draft because I had no WiFi. The fact that I keep getting a message saying that my gmail login failed could be relevant. I don’t know why this is when I can send and receive gmails.
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Well, do not EVER use that New Post button. As we volunteers have been reporting for a year now, it doesn’t activate the auto-save. It is associated with missing posts. You may, unfortunately, never recover those posts.
I will flag this for staff. They may be able to recover your drafts, since they were saved at one time. And some day if there’s justice in the world, they will do away with the New Post button.
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Thank you so much raincoaster. Yes please please raise it with staff for me. It is my record of an amazing trip through Russia, Siberia, and the ice festival in Harbin, Manchuria. I did an entry every day and saved it in drafts. I am just gutted.
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I see several drafts listed at https://suemarshallblog.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=post . Are those the ones you were referring to?
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No, I have approx. 11 drafts on consecutive dates starting 0n 26th Jan. I can’t remember all their titles but 3 of the later ones were Busy Doing Nothing, Happy New Year and Tigers R Us. I would be so grateful if you could help me.
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I don’t see any other posts on your blog, other than the ones trashed at https://suemarshallblog.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=trash&post_type=post
However, I do see that there have been previous posts/drafts deleted. Items within your trash folders can be restored otherwise permanently deleted within 30 days of their original trashing.
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