My post evaporated.
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I just spent much time creating a post with photos for a memorial for my mother who recently passed. Nothing was saved and no draft. It did not keep any of the content I worked so hard on. Why would this happen?
Blog url: http://godswordforwomen.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I guess no one knows or cares. As difficult as it was to do this in the first place, I now have to completely start over. Thanks for nothing WordPress.
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Hi there,
This is a known issue.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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P.S. This is a peer support forum where Volunteers provide the majority of all answers to support questions. When Staff intervention is reauired then we falg threads for Staff attention.
If ypou are new to blogging then please become aware of the fact that on most blogging forums it takes between 12 and 24 hours to get a first response, let alone a resolution. We answer questions within minutes of their being posted here.
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Thank you for your instructions, timethief. I actually asked this question yesterday, so no I did not wait only 2 minutes. It has been more than 24 hours. I have never had this happen before, and probably because of my emotional state at present with the loss of my mother, I am not dealing well with it. I have family members waiting for this who cannot attend the actual memorial. If I have to redo it, I have to redo it. But at least thank you for responding with something to try.
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OMG! I’m so sorry I didn’t notice that date difference. I also empathize with you as I recently lost my nother and know grief can affect us profoundly in many ways. I do hope you are able to recover a post revision.
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It did show a few revision links, but there is nothing in them, and there is nothing in the trash folder. Everything happens for a reason, right? I will just start over. I am sorry to hear of your loss as well, timethief. Whatever does not kill us makes us stronger, I am told. God Bless you and thanks for your help.
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Oh Anna, I’m so sorry this happened to you. :( Best wishes for re-creating an even better new post.
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Thank you. It is all good. ;-) Perhaps the other one was not what Jesus wanted. Whatever, I am doing just as you said, re-creating a new one, and it does feel even better.
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There, it is finished. Feel free to check it out if you like. http://www.godswordforwomen.wordpress.com.
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