Missing Post
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I recently posted on wordpress, and when loading it on the app on my phone, it updated the entry to what it was when I last used the phone to check that entry, which was about two lines worth of material. So now my 8 paragraph long entry is completely gone! Is there anything I can do?
Blog url: http://readingriots.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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You may be able to recover an earlier Post Revision. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/ 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.
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 by using the instructions I provided 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. The problem with posts disappearing when saved as a draft has been around for a while, but only seems to hit a small number of people randomly.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
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OMG thank you! I love you. I so wish I could give you a plate of cookies right now. I honestly almost died this morning when I saw it had disappeared. I’ve enabled the revisions so it would always show, because it wasn’t enabled on my Screen Options.
I used to start writing in google docs and then post it to wordpress, but I thought why not cut out the middle man and just post directly to wordpress. Well this is why. Thank you again!
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