Lost my post!
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I was writing a really lengthy post on my iPad and before I publish it, it was lost. I read that it will be auto saved every 2 minutes but I can’t find it anywhere. Can somebody help me?
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Hi!
You should be able to find it in the Drafts. If you are logged into your WordPress.com account, just follow this link and you should be able to locate it in there :)
https://wordpress.com/posts/drafts/chloelovesbulldog.wordpress.com
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Before you do anything else, go to https://wordpress.com/post with the same browser on the iPad and see if it offers to restore a post. If a restore button appears, that means a local copy was saved in your browser and you may be able to recover it.
If a restore button does not appear when you start a new post, you can try checking for saved drafts at these locations:
https://wordpress.com/posts/drafts
https://wordpress.com/pages/draftsIf you are logged in as the same username you were logged in as when you first wrote the content using the same browser and still cannot find it at any of the links above, it’s possible the content was never saved for some reason. I’m so sorry if that happened! We are working as we speak to improve the autosave function so this type of problem doesn’t happen in the future.
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As best as I can tell, the autosave function simply doesn’t work and should not be relied on. Going to
https://wordpress.com/pages/drafts
leads to an inaccurate accounting of my recent drafts, e.g. I over the past hour I worked on and saved several revisions and yet I’m told the most recent draft is 3 days old. Perhaps I’ve joined at the worst of all possible times for this featurew, but STAFF SHOULD WARN USERS THIS IS NOT WORKING AS INTENDED.
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@willandermann, it sounds a little bit like you might have something funny going on in regard to which blog you’re trying to publish to or perhaps you’re using an out of date browser or perhaps something has gone wrong that I am not aware of yet. I just tested saving a draft, and all of my edits were autosaved normally. I used Safari 9.0.1 in my test.
May I please ask what browser version and OS you are using?
http://browsehappy.com/Do you have any browser add-ons or extensions installed which could be interfering?
Would you be willing to try a basic troubleshooting step of clearing your browser cache?
http://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-your-browser-cacheCan you verify the URL of the blog you are working on?
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Thanks for responding. I’m using Chrome, it updates automatically. I don’t know about extension interference. Ad-Block? Acrobat?
I’ve cleared my cache, no change that I can see.
I haven’t published yet, I’m moving my pages in from another website.
I’d also add that what originally got me angry about this was that I discovered that using Ctrl + S, the Save combo for many programs, will produce a “saving draft” message at the bottom of the WP screen that appears to be bogus. I lost a chunk of work on Friday because I had been saving that way and, in fact, no revisions were saved. I got help from one of your colleagues, all he could do was be as puzzled as I was.
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I don’t know about extension interference. Ad-Block? Acrobat?
Yes, extensions like those can sometimes cause very strange issues.
I haven’t published yet, I’m moving my pages in from another website.
An import from a previously self-hosted WordPress setup?
I’d also add that what originally got me angry about this was that I discovered that using Ctrl + S, the Save combo for many programs, will produce a “saving draft” message at the bottom of the WP screen that appears to be bogus.
The message at the bottom after using Ctrl + S sounds like WP Admin and not the new WordPress.com at https://wordpress.com/post Can you confirm which one you are using?
I tested at https://wordpress.com/post and I don’t see a “saving draft” message there if I press Cmd + S (using a Mac), but I do see it in WP Admin and it does look like that is a bug in the older editor. I will research that tomorrow and make sure it is reported as an issue if it isn’t already.
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designsimply, I appreciate that you’re following up so diligently. Do you have more specific recommendations regarding extensions? Is part of the WP experience to stop using the Acrobat extension in Chrome?
No, I’m moving from a non WP setup. I’m dropping the html code into WP and editing it. Works well.
But there is hope. As far as the Ctrl+s problems goes, you are right, I have been using the Admin version because, well, it’s the version that is available when I go into what I thought of as the front door of site management. Is the editor at the link you used available for page editing?
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Do you have more specific recommendations regarding extensions?
I’m sorry but I don’t! I just know that some of them can cause a conflict and so it’s worth checking for that in cases where the issue is happening for one person and not others.
Is part of the WP experience to stop using the Acrobat extension in Chrome?
No. Did you test and verify that the Acrobat extension is the cause of the trouble?
No, I’m moving from a non WP setup. I’m dropping the html code into WP and editing it. Works well.
Oh! I see. Thanks for explaining that.
Is the editor at the link you used available for page editing?
It certainly is. You can find pages at https://wordpress.com/pages (use the “Switch Site” option at the top of the left menu if needed).
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Ok, thanks. I think, though, that I will wait to shift to the new editor. The editor feedback thread is a little scary atm.
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Don’t let it scare you :) it’s mostly duplicate feature requests, which are good to know and which I and other happiness engineers are helping to keep close track of for that feature launch.
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