My post was unpublished/deleted 2 days after it was published…
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I completed and finished a post a couple of days ago and received traffic to that specific page. I checked the blog today and the page had disappeared. In my post list, a previous draft of that same post appears in the list, unpublished. It is a few revisions old too and is not the same version as the finished published piece. How/why has this happened and is there a way to retrieve the finished version and publish it again?
Thanks
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What’s the title of the post you are referring to?
https://elevatedculture.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=post
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Hi. The title was “Interview: AnD – Kundalini EP [EDLX]”
I had to update a draft that had been saved 2 days before and re-finish the article. I think there was a more recent revision that was there but it would not let me restore it (the button was greyed out).
For some reason the publish date had been set to a different date (I think back to February). Not sure why WordPress did this.
Thanks
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As far as I can see the post was created in January, but published on Apr 8, 2014 @ 19:12. You can see the revisions at https://elevatedculture.wordpress.com/wp-admin/revision.php?revision=757
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Yes, I know. The publish date is the 8th because I changed it to that so that the post would appear back on my front page… I don’t know what happened but it was changed without my doing. When I discovered it in the edit page, the publish date was originally “To be published Xth Feb”. Not sure if this is some sort of bug?
Either way, I lost my final draft and had to recoup the changes I’d made from previous versions. This includes tags and featured image, etc.
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The date of the post gets updated when you make changes to the post content.
I’m sorry you’ve lost part of your draft, it seems that wasn’t saved properly. I recommend to always use the Save Draft button on the right hand side after a change has been made.
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Yes yes thanks for your sympathy but that isn’t what happened. I PUBLISHED the post (So it MUST have been saved) – people retweeted it on twitter, posted on fb, it got hits. Yet 2 days later it had disappeared and the publish date set back… You haven’t helped clear up anything. But I guess this is just an anomaly.
Thanks anyway.
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It seems some content was removed after the publish, the revision before that change can be found at https://elevatedculture.wordpress.com/wp-admin/revision.php?revision=747
You can scroll through different post revisions at the top of that page, these are all the saved changes made on that post.
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Yeah thanks. Though, as I mentioned earlier, I did go onto this page and found the revision you have linked me to. I mentioned previously that the ‘restore version’ button was greyed out so I wasn’t able to restore it. Thus having to manually update the post myself…
(if you read what i said yesterday morning… “I had to update a draft that had been saved 2 days before and re-finish the article. I think there was a more recent revision that was there but it would not let me restore it (the button was greyed out).”)
So not sure why it the button was greyed out? …
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