My draft disappeared
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I used the short “new post” tab to write a post, then when I tried to preview it, nothing happened, but the “saving post” icon acted as if the draft had been saved. When I went to edit the draft all the content was gone, but there were several revision times listed. All of the revisions are blank as well.
I also keep getting a 403 error message saying I don’t have authority to access my own dashboard. What the heck is going on???The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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a 403 error message saying I don’t have authority to access my own dashboard. What the heck is going on???
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re: disappearing draft
You may be able to recover an earlier post revision. 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. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/
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 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
Did you create your post on the dashboard of your own blog?
Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add NewOr did you create your post on the front page of WordPress.com?
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I have the revision module, but all of the revisions are blank. I posted from the front page of of WordPress.com.
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Hi there @thesassypear,
I have another user with a similar problem, so I’m going to append this thread to the request I put out already. I hope to have you an answer shortly!
First, can you confirm the browser and browser version you’re using?
Cheers,
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@zandring
Just in case you missed this > apeatling posted https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/just-spent-an-hour-on-a-post-and-when-i-published-it-it-was-completely-empty?replies=13#post-1085454
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/the-ocnten-tof-my-post-missing-when-published?replies=4#post-1085452 -
I have another user with a similar problem
There have been many and I tagged them with > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/recovering-a-lost-post-or-page
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Thanks @TT – I did miss that announcement!
That should take care of it, but I’ll stick around and see if anyone is having issues after the update.
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To circle back around to these users: a fix has been deployed (yesterday), so this shouldn’t affect users anymore going forward – regardless of where they post.
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