Lost Content on my WordPress Site after Updating and Publishing

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    turnernator · Member ·

    I was writing a large piece of content on a university computer, I had ensured it worked properly and saved correctly after updating it. I got home to access it and it’s not there?! Can someone please help! (Note: I have checked the editing log and it’s not there..)

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  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Were you using the post editor under the New Post button on the Reader? I’m afraid that editor doesn’t always save drafts as it should. Staff is aware of this issue and working on fixing it.

    If you created the post through the main post editor in your blog’s dashboard at Posts ->Add New you might be able to recover it from a post revision or from the trash folder. See:
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/#restoring-from-trash
    If it’s not there, I’m afraid it’s gone.

    To avoid this from happening in future, always create new posts by going to Posts ->Add New in the dashboard. Save your drafts regularly and make sure the page finishes loading after every refresh before clicking anything.

    An even safer option is to compose your posts offline using a text editor, word processor or an offline blog editor like Windows Live Writer. http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/

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