Lost and not found!!
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I am having trouble figuring out blogging. I joined word.press two years ago. So this afternoon I thought I would try it again. I wrote a post, then went back and edited it. I had pressed “publish” after the first post. then I realized I wanted to edit it. I then tried to repost it, edited. I can’t find it anywhere. Only the original post shows up. And where is it posted, how do people see it? HELP!
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To locate drafts Dashboard > Posts > All Post > Drafts
http://musclepressblog.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=postProvided you did not create the post in the new Beep Beep Boop editor where it’s saved only on your browser, and is not auto-saved to the servers for your blog I can help you with this.
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/)
I recommend:
1. Always create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog at
2. Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New
3. Immediately after creating a post and entering a title click the save draft link. Thereafter, “click save draft” frequently.
4. Always allow pages to fully load before clicking any other links.
5. Never leave a post or page open for content creation or editing and walk away from it, or open another tab in the same blog and work on something else while it is still open. Save it properly and return to edit it later.
6. Use an offline blog editor so you have backups on your own computer http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/If you cannot locate a revision or restore from Trash then the content has been lost and cannot be recovered.
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Ok I will go and try everything you suggested. thank you so much. I feel like a total dufus. Gotta figure out dashboard on word.press! What that is!
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Nope, can’t find the final edition. The corrected blog post. Gone. I’m tired. the only one that shows up is the first, unedited one.
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Then that means you have to edit it again. For editing see:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/On the bottom of your Admin page you will find a link to the step by step Learn WordPress.com blogging Tutorial prepared by Staff. http://learn.wordpress.com/
See also the “Video Quick Start” tutorial http://en.support.wordpress.com/video-quick-start/
The support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also on the bottom of your Admin page.
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musclepressblog, don’t feel badly. I kind of went through the same thing this morning….2-3 times. Now the ‘Save’ button is very popular with me. I tap it before tapping anything else…just to be sure.
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