Lost Draft
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I lost my latest draft using the “beep beep boop” editor! I was saving diligently, and it somehow messed up and disappeared… Lots of hard work lost. I tried reopening in the “dashboard” editor and trying to find an old version under “revisions” but there was nothing. Incredibly frustrating, I will probably stop using WordPress now.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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There is a long standing issue Staff are aware of if you use the new post editor for creating or editing posts.
Provided 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 you may be able to recover a lost post or page.
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
To locate draft POSTS Dashboard > Posts > All Post > Drafts
http://michellegetsoutside.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=postTo locate draft PAGES Dashboard > Pages> All Pages > Drafts
http://michellegetsoutside.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=page(If you are referring to a Page then see here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-revisions/)
If you cannot locate a revision or restore from Trash then the content has been lost and cannot be recovered.
I recommend:
1. Always create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog at
Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New
If you have cookies enabled on your browser your preference will be saved unless or until your clear your cookies, and it will take you to the classic editor automatically every time you create a new post via the drop-down menu in the black admin bar or edit a post via the edit button on the blog itself.2. Immediately after creating a post and entering a title click the save draft link. Thereafter, “click save draft” frequently.
3. Always allow pages to fully load before clicking any other links.
4. 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.
5. Use an offline blog editor so you have backups on your own computer http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/
If you do not locate the post in your drafts or private posts then please provide the title and URL of it here please as I tagged this thread for Staff help. Then subscribe to the thread, so you are notified when they respond. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.
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michellemho–If you were using the save button and not just the autosave we may be able to find it. Was this for http://michellegetsoutside.wordpress.com/ or your other site?
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Yes, that’s the one. The draft is for “Ice Climbing” and the version I’m looking was saved on March 13th. I opened up the draft again on March 23rd and I thought it looked funny because significant chunks were missing, but I thought I was going crazy so I just continued editing. I saved this new version and closed out. A minute later, I opened up the draft again, and it was as though the last hour of work had not happened. I was not happy about this.
I think it’s ridiculous for a drafting tool to fail to save. I’d really love to get my March 13th draft back, but to be honest I’m hesitant about using WordPress again.
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I misunderstood. I thought you were saying the draft was gone completely. The revision management system from WP-admin is not built into the new editor, so saving the draft saves the most recent version, but not previous versions.
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