Missing Post Revisions

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  bparsia · Member · Aug 28, 2014 at 9:16 pm

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  Hello. My free WordPress.com ate some of my post today. Unlike what the help says, I don’t have a “Post Revisions” bit in my Publish box.

  (What I did is I was playing with Markdown footnotes and “saved draft”. It gave me an “are you sure” message and then when it came back, this morning’s work was gone.)

  Should I have revisions? I can’t find any way to enable it.

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  bparsia · Member · Aug 28, 2014 at 9:25 pm

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  Ok, weirdly, I saved this version and all of a sudden, on just this post, I now have revisions. But only 2 and not including my missing text :( Sigh.

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  timethief · Member · Aug 28, 2014 at 10:29 pm

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  If you use the new Beep Beep Boop editor then your work is being saved only in your browser and not on the servers for the blog.

  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
     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/

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