how to find my drafts

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  sierrarao · Member · Nov 14, 2015 at 5:15 pm

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  I just started creating my first blog, and I closed the window. I want to know if i can find it in drafts. Please help!

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  designsimply · Member · Nov 16, 2015 at 3:07 pm

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  Before you do anything else, go to https://wordpress.com/post with the same browser and see if it offers to restore a post. If a restore button appears, that means a local copy was saved in your browser and you may be able to recover it.

  If a restore button does not appear when you start a new post, you can try checking for saved drafts at these locations:
  https://wordpress.com/posts/drafts
  https://wordpress.com/pages/drafts

  If you are logged in as the same username you were logged in as when you first wrote the content using the same browser and still cannot find it at any of the links above, it’s possible the content was never saved for some reason. I’m so sorry if that happened! We are working on an update to prevent problems like that from happening in the future.

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  sierrarao · Member · Nov 22, 2015 at 6:18 pm

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  That really helped, thanks designssimply :)

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  grannym · Member · Nov 23, 2015 at 3:03 am

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  That fixed one of my issues – now if I can just find out how to make thumbnails again . . . . .

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  designsimply · Member · Nov 23, 2015 at 7:01 pm

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  @grannym, to add an image as a thumbnail, first add the image to the post then click on the image and click the “-” icon in the image toolbar until the image becomes thumbnail-sized.

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  grannym · Member · Nov 23, 2015 at 7:21 pm

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  @designsimply, Yes, thanks for that – it does make the image smaller, but unfortunately isn’t a thumbnail since you can’t click it to make it bigger.
  I even tried hitting the <publish> button in case it wouldn’t bring up the larger image until that point, but nope, nothing happens.

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  designsimply · Member · Nov 23, 2015 at 11:05 pm

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  but unfortunately isn’t a thumbnail since you can’t click it to make it bigger.

  That is different! I can help with that too.

  To link an image to the original, click on the image after it is inserted and then click the link icon in the edit toolbar.

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  grannym · Member · Nov 24, 2015 at 1:06 am

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  @designsimply – Good grief that’s clumsy!! It works, but what a lot of aggravation compared to former versions where the media library had a drop-down menu that you just clicked for a thumbnail and it linked automatically.
  I sure do hope they change it back.
  But thanks for the work-around anyway. Guess I’ll have to deal with that until it gets put right.

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  designsimply · Member · Nov 24, 2015 at 5:52 am

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  Not everyone does want the images linked like this :) so we get feedback both ways.

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  grannym · Member · Nov 24, 2015 at 7:39 pm

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  @designsimply – I’m sure. People always want both choices. But this one would be so easy to satisfy both ways with just a <small> option and a <thumbnail> option which would be clickable in a drop down menu when you are inserting a photo. I’m completely puzzled as to why that was left out since it’s been in the program for all the time I’ve been using it and it seemed to work well.
  Please, PLEASE bring that back?

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  designsimply · Member · Nov 24, 2015 at 11:39 pm

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  I will forward the suggestion for you! We’ll have to wait to see if it can be updated after that. I think they will make some modifications to the image insert process, but it will be on the next iteration.

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  grannym · Member · Nov 25, 2015 at 12:37 am

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  Thank you.