Lost Post
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I clicked publish and my post disappeared. Please help
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi,
I’m sorry for the hassle. I’ll be happy to take a look.
What’s the title of the post in question?
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Go to Posts > All Posts, hover over the title of the post, click Edit and check the Post Revisions module for previous saved versions of the post.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/If you’re not seeing the Revisions module while on the editor screen, click Screen Options (top right corner of your Admin page) http://en.support.wordpress.com/screen-options/ to activate it. Then select the post and page modules to include them. http://en.support.wordpress.com/modules/#list-of-modules Then you ought to be able to go here > Dashboard > All Posts > Posts and locate the post and recover it from post revisions.
If you cannot locate the post for locating and restoring a post revision, and it’s not in your Trash folder http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/ then you will not be able to recover it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/#restoring-from-trash
Advice:
When you start a new post, add the title, set it to private and then publish it. When you are done with the post, set it back to publish and update it as justpi has said. The other choice is to get and use an offline blog client such as Windows Live Writer (Windows) or Ecto (Mac) and then everything is saved on your computer and when you are done with the post, you actually publish it directly from the blog client software. See here for offline blog editors so you don’t have to go through this again http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc -
I tried all posts and its not on there.
Title is ‘I Hate You’ which is a hook for an article on forgiveness.
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Did you create that post in your dashboard in your own blog?
http://johnxbrown.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.phpOr did your use that “New Post” on the front page of wordpress.com?
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I honestly dont remember which I used. I dont post all that often. I had just spent an hour or so working on this one and wish I wouldnt lose it. I can just write it again, it will go faster second time. I should have opened another tab and made sure it was published before I left wordpress. I may have left too soon, though I didnt think I was.
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My advice is to log-in directly to your own blog.
http://johnxbrown.wordpress.com/wp-admin/
Go to Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New
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Thank you for your help. I have a little trip to make and I’ve got to get off line now. Thanks very much.
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Look in your Trash file for it. There’s a slight chance it could be there. This does seem to happen more and more to long posts.
One way to force the autosave to work (it is supposed to always work, but as you’ve seen, doesn’t) is to, immediately once you start a post, set the post to Private, then hit Publish. That’s the same as a draft in that nobody but you can see it, but it somehow forces the autosave to start working and then when the post is ready to be published for real, just hit Update and change it to Public.
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