missing blog post
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Hello! I published a blog post a while ago.. I doesn’t display on my page nor on my published posts.. I know I published it because I have stats about it! I also have stats of visits to a post that its on drafts! I cleared cache and cookies and tried from different computers and also as a visitor it shows the same.. so weird!
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This is not tha first time (or second) that I try to get help and nobody answers.. please help
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You haven’t provided very much information so far. Let me ask a few questions to try to help you.
I know I published it because I have stats about it!
What is the post title? What is the exact URL staring with https:// where you can see the stats for that post, or how are you seeing those stats?
I also have stats of visits to a post that its on drafts!
What is the title of the draft you are referring to? Is it possible that you published it and then unpublished it by saving it as a draft again?
When you write, do you happen to open several tabs at once and/or keep them open for long periods of time?
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Thanks for answering!
The post tittle was Empties part 1: https://www.bloglovin.com/people/leyre1-7493319
I saved it in Bloglovin but I can’t give you the URL because I can’t find it!
However when I click on the Bloglovin link it leads me to the second part of Empties. That one was in Draft and I published it today. I didn’t know you could unpublish something and save it in drafts again.
When I write I do have several tabs open. Does that affect anything? -
When I write I do have several tabs open. Does that affect anything?
My suspicion is that it does affect things, but only under very specific circumstances that you happened to trigger. If you start more than one post at a time, then I think the 2nd one has a chance of overwriting the 1st one if the 1st one wasn’t saved as a draft BEFORE the 2nd one is started. Upcoming changes to the editor will help avoid this, so hopefully you won’t run into it again, but we can talk again after the changes go in to see if it’s still a problem. In the short term, I think you can avoid the problem by not opening brand new drafts in multiple browser tabs. After the post is saved and you close and re-open it, it should be safe at that point to have those ones open in multiple tabs.
Here is Empties part 2:
https://malvaynaranja.wordpress.com/2015/10/29/empties-part-1-skincare-2/Empties part 1 is actually saved as an early revision, which you can see if you open the post in the WP Admin editor, scroll down until you see the revisions list, and click on an earlier revision. Here is an example:
https://malvaynaranja.wordpress.com/wp-admin/revision.php?revision=433Here is a reference about post revisions:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/So I think my suspicion is correct in this case and the two brand new drafts for those posts were being edited around the same time in the same browser and one accidentally overwrote the other.
Would you like me to copy the revision from the link above into a new post for you? It can be kind of tricky to cut and paste those revisions.
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I’m happy you found it! I thought I lost it!
I will try not to edit two posts at the same time so I don’t get to this point again. ;)
Thank you very much for your help! -
Editing two at the same time should be okay. It’s starting two at the same time that I believe caused the problem in your case.
It’s worth reiterating that this should not happen after the next editor changes are launched because they have an upgrade to how autosaves and revisions work. So it really shouldn’t be something to worry about except for the next week or so.
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