My blog post has vanished! Please can you help?

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  carolynmcash · Member · May 25, 2015 at 2:11 pm

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  Hello,

  I wrote and posted an article, Richard III’s Coronation, on 6 July 2013, but I discovered earlier tonight that it has “disappeared”, as it keeps coming up “Not Found”.

  As far as I know, I certainly did NOT delete it.

  Please can you help?

  Regards,
  Carolyn

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  simplysaru · Staff · May 25, 2015 at 5:19 pm

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  Hi Carolyn,
  Have you looked into your trash folder? May be it got accidentally deleted? You can check your trash from here.

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  carolynmcash · Member · May 26, 2015 at 6:23 am

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  Thanks for your message. I’ve checked in the Trash folder but it is not there. As far as I know, I did not delete it.

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  simplysaru · Staff · May 26, 2015 at 10:53 am

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  Hope you have checked the drafts and other folders. Are you the only admin/ owner/ user of your blog? Could some one else who has access to your blog deleted the post?

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  carolynmcash · Member · May 26, 2015 at 11:33 am

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  Yes, I’ve checked them too. I’m the only one who is the admin of the site, which is why it is a complete mystery why it has “disappeared”.

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  simplysaru · Staff · May 26, 2015 at 11:50 am

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  I have tagged this for a staff to look into this, please wait for a staff to get back.

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  shawnajroberts · Member · May 26, 2015 at 9:54 pm

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  Hi there! Can you give me the link you’re trying to visit that keeps coming up with ‘Not Found’?

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  simplysaru · Staff · May 27, 2015 at 2:36 am

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  I am thinking this is the article the user is trying to find. Archive.org also doesn’t seem to have a copy of this one except for the URL.
  https://carolynmcash.wordpress.com/2013/07/06/richard-iii-coronation/

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  johnnyfaithful · Member · May 27, 2015 at 2:54 am

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  I’m having exactly the same problem, carolynmcash. This post has disappeared: http://committingsociology.com/?p=1811

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  carolynmcash · Member · May 27, 2015 at 3:41 am

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  This is the link https://carolynmcash.wordpress.com/2013/07/06/richard-iii-coronation/.

  Hope this helps.

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  johnnyfaithful · Member · May 27, 2015 at 12:40 pm

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  I fear that my system may have been hacked. As such, can you tell me precisely when this post was deleted: http://committingsociology.com/?p=1811

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  johnnyfaithful · Member · May 27, 2015 at 1:31 pm

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  p.s. This is, more or less, what the deleted post looked like (I’ve recreated it): http://committingsociology.com/2015/05/27/dis-disease/

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  johnnyfaithful · Member · May 27, 2015 at 1:32 pm

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  Hope this helps.

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  carolynmcash · Member · May 28, 2015 at 8:06 am

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  Is your blog on WP or was it self-hosted? I have another website using WordPress, which is self-hosted, and was hacked into in late March/early April. This article was linked to this web page.

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  shawnajroberts · Member · May 28, 2015 at 7:47 pm

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  @carolynmcash – It looks like that post was reverted to Draft status:

  https://carolynmcash.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=738&action=edit

  Just update it to published and the URL will start working again. :)

  @johnnyfaithful – Can you tell me the title of previous post? Or the date it was published on?

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  carolynmcash · Member · May 29, 2015 at 4:17 am

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  @shawnajroberts That was one I recreated the other day, in case the original couldn’t be found. The original had two more pictures in it.

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  shawnajroberts · Member · May 29, 2015 at 6:41 pm

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  It looks like you sent the original post to the trash – https://carolynmcash.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=trash&post_type=post

  You can restore it from there by putting your cursor over the title of the post and selecting “Restore”.

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  carolynmcash · Member · May 30, 2015 at 2:05 am

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  @shawnajroberts. Thanks. I’ve just had a look but it seems to be a copy of the new one, as there is only one picture. The original post had three.

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  shawnajroberts · Member · May 30, 2015 at 2:42 pm

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  Thanks for taking a look. I see in your blog’s log that you deleted a post at “carolynmcash.wordpress.com/2013/07/06/richard-iii-coronation/” about 11 months ago. That post was then permanently deleted from the trash 30 days later.

  I think that may be the one you’re looking for.

  Unfortunately, I can’t restore that post at this point. But we can make sure that your new post has the same URL as the old one so you don’t lose readers who were linked to that post.

  First, you’ll want to delete this post:

  https://carolynmcash.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=741&action=edit

  And then, head into your trash and delete it permanently:

  https://carolynmcash.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=trash&post_type=post

  Once you’ve done that, head back to the replacement post you’ve created:

  https://carolynmcash.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=738&action=edit

  Underneath the title you’ll see:

  Permalink: https://carolynmcash.wordpress.com/2013/07/06/richard-iiis-coronation-2/

  We’ll want to remove that “-2” so click on the Edit button next to that link. There you can remove the “-2” and click OK.

  You need to delete the other post permanently from your trash before trying to remove the “-2”, otherwise it won’t work.

  Let me know if I can help further!

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  carolynmcash · Member · May 31, 2015 at 12:38 pm

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  @shawnajorberts Thanks for your message. However, I definitely didn’t delete the article at all, let alone deleting it from the trash, which was why I said it had “disappeared”.

  I have back-ups sent by e-mail but there’s nothing in the folders.

  Can you help with self-hosted websites? Mine was hacked into about two months ago, and all the content was lost. Is there any chance it can be retrieved. We tried using the backups sent by e-mail but there were nothing in them.