need a warning before publishing

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    marylandis · Member ·

    How about an “are you sure you want to do this?” button after one selects “Publish”? I guess I inadvertently selected “publish” when I meant to select “preview” and of course my draft went instantaneously to my followers. Embarrassing.
    Strangely it did not appear in my list of posts (so I couldn’t edit it—had to start over) nor did it appear on my blog.
    Any idea what happened?
    I don’t see why we get a warning before approving a comment and not before publishing a post!

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

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    timethief · Member ·

    Strangely it did not appear in my list of posts (so I couldn’t edit it—had to start over) nor did it appear on my blog.

    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 New

    Or did you create your post on the front page of WordPress.com?
    http://wordpress.com/#!/post/

    Advice:
    Create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog
    Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New

    Or use an offline blog editor so you always have backups on your own computer http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    There’s a bug going around: if you search the “missing post” tag in the forums you’ll see dozens of similar reports.

    If you want a pause button before publishing a post, you can either use an offline blog editor like Windows Live Writer or you can create two user accounts: make one the Admin of the blog, and the other just a contributor. Then write as the contributor. you’ll have to change ID’s to publish the post.

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