Missing draft page

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  micheleobriain · Member · Jul 24, 2014 at 2:53 pm

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  I was delighted when I picked my theme and started to set up my blog pages – I started with about me and was putting in various words and sentences in draft form which I was going to look at again to decide what I should include/exclude but the original About Me page that I saved at about 2am this morning seems to have disappeared. I just started to set up a new page but then thought that you might be able to recover some of the copy at your end to save me starting it from scratch again.

  Any chance you have the magic to make it reappear?

  Thanks a lot and regards

  Michele

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  timethief · Member · Jul 24, 2014 at 6:02 pm

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  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://micheleobriain.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=post

  See 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/)

  If you cannot locate a revision or restore from Trash the content has been lost and cannot be recovered.

  I recommend:

  1. Always create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog at
     Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New
  2. Immediately after creating a post and entering a title click the save draft link. Thereafter, “click save draft” frequently.
  3. Always allow pages to fully load before clicking any other links.
  4. 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.
  5. Use an offline blog editor so you have backups on your own computer http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/
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  micheleobriain · Member · Jul 24, 2014 at 6:21 pm

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  Dear timethief,

  Great support thanks – I found the copy and restored it so you’ve saved me a couple of hours work.

  Thank you again and keep up the good work.

  Regards

  Michele

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  timethief · Member · Jul 24, 2014 at 6:23 pm

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  Hooray! I ♥ happy endings. :)