lost a post

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  newcarolyn · Member · Mar 5, 2013 at 4:40 pm

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  i’ve lost a post that I posted this morning – driving in colombo – is there a ‘trash’ folder to check?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 5, 2013 at 7:24 pm

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  Yes but you may be able to recover a post revision. 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

  Did you create your post on the dashboard of your own blog?
  Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New

  Or did you create your post on the front page of WordPress.com?
  http://wordpress.com/#!/post/

  Advice:
  Create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog
  Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New

  Or use an offline blog editor so you always have backups on your own computer http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/

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  newcarolyn · Member · Mar 6, 2013 at 4:17 am

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  thanks for your help – I did manage to find it and repost! :)

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  mmxiiihera · Member · Mar 6, 2013 at 4:23 am

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  I posted two from the front page of WordPress.com in a short interval and the first one completely disappeared. It isn’t even listed in my post list and isn’t in the trash can. Is there any way to recover it?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 6, 2013 at 4:26 am

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  @newcarolyn
  That’s great news! :)

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  timethief · Member · Mar 6, 2013 at 4:27 am

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  @mmxiiihera
  If you cannot locate a post revision or locate it in your trash (see instructions above) the bad news is that you will have to create it again from scratch.

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  mmxiiihera · Member · Mar 6, 2013 at 4:30 am

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  So I think that for some reason the second post posted as a revision to the first and therefore erased what was the original. Is there any way to bring back the original post from a revision or anything?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 6, 2013 at 4:32 am

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  Did you try the step by step instructions I posted above?
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/lost-a-post-4?replies=7#post-1171053

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  mmxiiihera · Member · Mar 6, 2013 at 4:40 am

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  Your previous post was helpful once I read it through more carefully. I have figured out how to separate the two posts. Thanks @timethief :)

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  timethief · Member · Mar 6, 2013 at 4:48 am

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  I’m so glad to hear that. Best wishes with your blog.