My archives widget does not display monthly calendar posts and appears frozen

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    hospitalship1 · Member ·

    Archives widget doesn’t display each month I posted to my blog in December but these don’t show up. I need to add a great deal of material constantly etc… and archive the bulk overall to save the limited space that I have. Can someone look at this my first blog and help me please? Tx! John

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    timethief · Member ·

    I don’t find anything here https://canadianwarpoetryww1.wordpress.com/2014/12/
    I don’t find any December posts on the blog.
    And we blogger cannot archive anything. The software automatically archives every post we publish when we publish it.

    I don’t find any indexed content for December in Google
    site:canadianwarpoetryww1.wordpress.com

    Perhaps you have draft posts that you failed to publish.Provided you did not create the post in the new Beep Beep Boop editor where it’s saved only on your browser, and is not auto-saved to the servers for your blog you may be able to recover a lost post or page.

    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

    To locate draft POSTS Dashboard > Posts > All Post > Drafts
    http://canadianwarpoetryww1.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=post

    To locate draft PAGES Dashboard > Pages> All Pages > Drafts
    http://canadianwarpoetryww1.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=page

    (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 then the content has been lost and cannot be recovered.

    I recommend:

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

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    hospitalship1 · Member ·

    Tx timethief anyone else? I started and switched in between beep beep new editor and the old BUT I very assiduously saved, previewed etc… each time. I did do Nr 5 though. I will work on it and report back. I am dealing with masses of data (literally kilometers of records and buildings full of archives). John

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    timethief · Member ·

    I’m sorry but the bottom line is, if you cannot locate a revision or restore from Trash then the content has been lost and cannot be recovered.

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    lizthefair · Member ·

    Just to confirm, are you are referring to posts you are adding to this site? https://canadianwarpoetryww1.wordpress.com/

    If so, I see one long post here: https://canadianwarpoetryww1.wordpress.com/2014/11/18/6/

    It looks like you are adding new information to the same post every time you update, rather than starting new posts.

    If that’s the case, let me know and I can show you how to break your entries into separate posts. If you do that your archive will work as expected.

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    hospitalship1 · Member ·

    Dear Happiness Engineer (et als) yes please let me know how to break up chunk up so that each post is new and thus all “older” posts are automatically archived and thus saving incredible amount of space on the limited amount given to wordpress.com bloggers. This is vital all round for me to do asap. So can you please advise me in the simplest sequential numbered manner exactly what to do? Danke! John

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    lizthefair · Member ·

    The key here is to create a new post every time you want to add new info to your site, rather than editing your existing post.

    To do this, start on the front of your website and then hover over “My Sites” in the black bar at the top of your site.

    From there click “Add” next to “Blog Posts” in the drop down menu.

    Give your new post a title, add your post content and when you are done click publish.

    If you follow this process every time you want to add new info, rather than opening your existing post and adding info to the end, each post will be time/date stamped for the day you add it, and thus will be available in your archives.

    Please give that a try and let me know if you have any questions.

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