New posts overwriting old?
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I publish a post. Later on, in an hour, when I start another post, type in the hed and click in the body-copy area, the post autosaves … with the URL of the previous post!
Then I click out of the screen to avoid overwriting the previous post and try again. Sometimes it works, sometimes it takes 4 tries to start a post with a NEW URL.
Also (and it may be connected) a recent post disappeared and my link on the home page that pointed to it died!!
What the frack!? God, I hate the GD Javascript all over the compose windows!
Blog url: http://scootersport.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Are you using that Quick Post on the main page of wordpress.com?
If so, don’t. It’s only for “asides”.
Aside – These are brief snippets of text that aren’t quite whole blog posts. Useful for quick thoughts and anecdotes
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-formats/Use this instead > http://scootersport.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.php
As you write and edit your posts and pages on WordPress.com, the changes you make are automatically saved every 2 minutes. http://en.support.wordpress.com/autosave/
See also post revisions and page revisions
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-revisions/I hate the GD Javascript all over the compose windows!
Do you have Javacript enabled on your browser?
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Are you using that Quick Post on the main page of wordpress.com?
If so, don’t. It’s only for “asides”.I don’t use the quick post, I use the html window at
http://scootersport.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=postI markup my own html there.
Javascript is evil. I keep it off as much as I can and it’s a little easier using the above post page without it, but then I have to turn it on to see notifications and some other things on the ‘blog (stats on the WordPress panel etc.).
When JS is on I get the overwriting problem. Also the JS messes with my code sometimes. If there’s a glitch it will wipe out all that section and I have to re-enter everything. Without the JS at least my INfrequent mistakes show on the preview (and I always preview) only and I can go back to the code and tweak it.
As you write and edit your posts and pages on WordPress.com, the changes you make are automatically saved every 2 minutes.
(The changes also save when first you add a title and click in the body copy section of the compose window–with JS on.)
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Did the autosave and post and page revisions sections of the support docs answer your questions? Are you still in need of support?
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They certainly don’t address the ‘supernatural’ overwriting of previous posts, or how to navigate without JS. But I guess no one else is either. Thanks anyway.
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