Lost Post
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I just spent a whole day creating a post and, when I hit Publish, it just disappeared. I can’t find any way to recover it. It doesn’t show anywhere under Posts, Drafts, or Revisions. My guess is that I’ve lost it into cyberspace. Am I right?
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This is odd. Seems you have already checked for the lost post in the Drafts, but have you checked in the Trash?
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The Trash heading only appears on the Posts page if, in fact, there is something in it. There is no trash on my posts page. Thanks for the suggestion anyway.
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The funny thing is, if I go to my stats page, and hover the cursor over today’s stats column, it shows the post as being published, but I don’t see it anywhere.
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Did you use the Blue Death – Beep Beep what ever editor? If so that editor seems to have some “issues” loosing things
Much better to use the “classic” editor from your main Dashboard
Dashboard >> Posts > Add New Post
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PS – try Google or another search engine and see if a copy is in their cache – use the Post title
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Is it possible that I’ve used up all the space I’m allowed, and that last post pushed me over the limit, so they didn’t post it? My Media space is showing 9.4gigs out of 13gigs allowed. Could one post be 3.6gigs. It doesn’t seem likely to me.
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You get unlimited words – the text does not count as part of the space limit. I have not tried to do above the space limit, but I would expect that you would just not be allowed to upload a new file, should not have caused a Post to be deleted.
If you have looked in the Trash & such I don’t have any good suggestions, the recover things folks are not posting tonight in the forum so I will flag this for staff attention – If you are using the Classic editor then this would be the first time I have seen someone loose a Post with it.
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Thanks for trying to help me auxclass. I will do some more investigating, to see if I can determine what the problem is. I’ve done over two hundred posts, and I’ve never run into this before.
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Hi there,
@auxclass is correct that text does not count against your account size (and even if it did, it would require absolutely massive amounts of text to make a really solid dent in your allowance).
In regards to the post itself, the only thing that I can imagine is if you had any other posts open to their editor screen at the same time while you were composing this one. If so, the auto save has on the rare occasion been known to get confused and mix up where it should be saving. As such, if you look in the revisions for any other posts which you had open you might find your magnum opus.
Sadly, if it isn’t there then you may be out of luck. If it’s not in Drafts, Trash, or Published then we didn’t appear to get a copy of it and so there isn’t anything for us to retrieve. I’m very sorry.
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Thanks, I’m still not sure what happened, but I’ve done the post again, and it posted properly this time. I do have lots of pictures and videos in my posts, and that’s why I was thinking that I may have gone over my limit, but that was not the case.
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Provided you do not create your posts 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 can locate post revisions.
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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