How to avoid the dreaded "Your attempt to edit (a post) has failed"?
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TOO OFTEN I get the “your attempt to edit (a post) has failed” error message.
Does anyone at WordPress.com understand how FRUSTRATING it is when you click on “Publish” and you get this error, especially after spending 3 hours on your blog article, and the last auto-save has absolutely nothing saved, and thus you have to start from zero again?
This now has happened to me eight different times!!!
I am fed up and tempted to switch blog sites.
Blog url: http://onomeister.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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How do I contact WordPress.com directly?? Or should I be getting help from the Community instead? And please don’t give me the “You have to ‘Save Draft’ often” excuse.
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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.
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I know you said the aut-save did not save anything but just in case this helps someone wlse I’m posting it. You may be able to recover an earlier Post Revision. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/ 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. 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.
Lastly, Staff is well aware of this issue and I have flagged this thread for a Staff response.
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Thanks for your tips, and your quick response.
I will try using Windows Live Writer instead from now on. I didn’t even know this existed in my pc. -
For windows live writer see here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/windows-live-writer/
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