Lost Draft Using Beep Boop Editor
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I’ve been using WordPress for a very long time so I’m very familiar with the site and have had very few problems over the year.
Recently something that has literally never happened to me in years of using this site has caused me a lot of confusion and frustration and if anyone can assist me in rectifying the situation I’d be endlessly grateful.
I wrote an extremely long new post using the Beep Boop editor. During this process I added numerous photos and previewed the draft a number of times.
After completing the draft in the middle of the night, I decided to post it in the morning so it would get more attention.
When I returned to WordPress the next day my entire post is gone and the only remnants of its existence is a single photo (I loaded at least 5) I’d added to the post that was still in the media library.
This photo says it was uploaded to “Auto Draft” but when I click on that link it just takes me to a blank post. When I go to my dashboard the post I had written was not in my drafts, pending or trash section. I have a number of drafts that pre date this post but for some reason this particular draft is nowhere to be found.
Again, this has never happened to me and every possible solution as failed me.
So, here’s what I’m asking.
1. Does this new format have some kind of cloud or autosave feature where my draft has been saved? If so, how can I access this content?
2. If I loaded photos into the media library, how come only a single photo remains while the others now appear to have never existed? Why wouldn’t they photos save when they always have before and if the post has been lost shouldn’t that mean every single photo would be gone and there wouldn’t just be one random image that was saved?
3. Why does my search history not show the url of this post when it displays the sites I searched while writing the post? Like the photo, when I click on a link in my history that corresponds with the time and location of my draft why does it take me to a blank post instead of a saved draft?
Please help!
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Staff have been creating a new editor to replace the classic editor for over a year now and the issue you report dates back that far.
To locate drafts Dashboard > Posts > All Post > Drafts
http://thefrogblogg.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 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(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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Hi there,
I’m very sorry for the trouble you had with this draft. While you were writing the post, did you use the “Save” button in the editor to save the draft?
With the new post editor, drafts are automatically saved locally in your browser’s storage as you write them. When you first return to the post editor after a draft has been saved in your browser’s storage, a prompt will appear to restore the saved version. However, the drafts aren’t saved on our end until you click the “Save” or “Publish” button in the editor.
Can you give me more details about the contents of the post and the images you added to the post? That might help me figure out what happened to the rest of the content you added to that post that disappeared.
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This very same thing happened to me last night in the new editor. I uploaded images, saved three revisions and even set a featured image, and the post is nowhere to be found. Baffling. Any new tips? It’s not in my drafts and the content is not being found in revisions anywhere. I’ve used WordPress since 2008 and have never had anything like this happen.
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The image says it’s saved to “auto draft” and when I clicked on it, the post is blank and there is no info on last night’s revisions. Please advise.
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For the record, I had named the draft, from the start “decembering, decembering”. Can someone please take a look into this?
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I’ve just had the same thing – wrote a post, then tried to come back to it a few days later to publish and it’s gone! It was my first time using the new editor – which I’ll be avoiding like the plague in future – but in between writing the post and finding it gone I used an anti-virus which cleared up my browser, presumably deleting everything saved on it. Livid.
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I’ve just had the same thing – wrote a post, then tried to come back to it a few days later to publish and it’s gone! It was my first time using the new editor – which I’ll be avoiding like the plague in future – but in between writing the post and finding it gone I used an anti-virus which cleared up my browser, presumably deleting everything saved on it. Livid.
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Edit: just checked my browser and it still has everything, including browser history. When I navigate back to the ‘Write a post’ page via History on Google, it presents me with a blank editor. So…where is my work?
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@curiousemily – It sounds like your anti-virus may have cleared your local storage. If you’re stepping away from a draft for an extended period of time, you need to make sure you manually save it as a draft. This is good practice in both editors.
There’s no way to guarantee that our autosave feature would have captured all of your updates before you close the window or the browser unless you manually save.
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This just happened to me.
Started a post last night…didn’t think about saving it, since it seems to auto-save all the time. Until now, I have alternated between new and old editors, depending on what WP seems to present to me – never realizing the possible repercussions. I came back to the post this morning and accidentally clicked the “new post” icon. Immediately hit “back” and the form was blank.
Assuming it was no problem, I went to find my draft, which didn’t exist…I also then realized 4 other “drafts” I have written this week don’t exist! So frustrating. :(
Am I understanding correctly that these were never saved and are gone forever?
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Yes. If you cannot locate a revision or restore from Trash then the content has been lost and cannot be recovered.
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