Lost post after pressing publish – Not anywhere!

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  avidlyblue · Member · Feb 9, 2013 at 6:12 pm

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  Hi there, I wrote a lengthy post and pressed publish. I even saw the post under preview. Then when I refreshed the blog to see it, it’s gone! I looked over the “Don’t Panic” instructions, but my post isn’t even in drafts anymore. It’s not in the trash, it’s not in revision, it’s not listed under my posts or pages or anywhere in my dashboard. It’s just gone. All that is left is the tags I used on it.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 9, 2013 at 6:13 pm

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  Please be sure you are running one of the browser versions here http://browsehappy.com first.

  You may be able to recover an earlier post revision. 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

  Did you create your post on the dashboard of your own blog?
  Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New

  Or did you create your post on the front page of WordPress.com?
  http://wordpress.com/#!/post/

  Advice:
  Create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog
  Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New

  Or use an offline blog editor so you always have backups on your own computer http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/