Newest blog post disappeared. Absolutely devastated, where did it go?!

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  katietunn · Member · Feb 7, 2015 at 12:54 am

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  I’ve just written a HUGE blog post that’s taken about 5 hours to create (I cancelled a night out to stay in and finish it!)
  It said it had posted but it’s not appearing anywhere, is it lost forever?! I could cry, it’s so frustrating.
  I’ve tried checking on other devices and searching for it via wordpress and Google.
  The name was something along the lines of: ‘A photo journey from Skye to Fort William… Inverlochy Castle, the Commando Memorial and some curious wildlife’
  Arrrrggggghhh!!!

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

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  timethief · Member · Feb 7, 2015 at 1:48 am

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  Provided you did not create the post in the new Beep Beep Boop editor where it’s saved only on your browser, and is not auto-saved to the servers for your blog you may be able to recover a lost post or page.

  If the post was created on the dashboard of your own blog at Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New then you ought to be able to recover a lost post or page from revisions if needs be.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/

  See also if applicable > restoring from trash http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/#restoring-from-trash

  To locate draft POSTS Dashboard > Posts > All Post > Drafts
  http://thenewgirlskye.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=post

  To locate draft PAGES Dashboard > Pages> All Pages > Drafts
  http://thenewgirlskye.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=page

  (If you are referring to a Page then see here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-revisions/)

  If you cannot locate a revision or restore from Trash then the content has been lost and cannot be recovered.

  I recommend:

  1. Always create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog at
  2. Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New
  3. Immediately after creating a post and entering a title click the save draft link. Thereafter, “click save draft” frequently.
  4. Always allow pages to fully load before clicking any other links.
  5. Never leave a post or page open for content creation or editing and walk away from it, or open another tab in the same blog and work on something else while it is still open. Save it properly and return to edit it later.
  6. Use an offline blog editor so you have backups on your own computer http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/

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  katietunn · Member · Feb 12, 2015 at 11:36 pm

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  Thanks so much for this.

  It had completely disappeared even after looking in all those places.

  Luckily it had somehow been sent out to my followers via the mailing list before it disappeared so I managed to copy it off of one of their emails.

  A lesson learnt for next time though!

  K x

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 13, 2015 at 12:21 am

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  Subscribe to your own blog if you’re going to use the new editor. This happens a lot.

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  katietunn · Member · Feb 13, 2015 at 12:46 am

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  Oh really? That’s interesting to know.
  I’ll definitely do that. Thanks!
  x

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 13, 2015 at 1:57 am

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  Yeah, I keep telling people to do that and I should do it myself, come to think of it, but I always use the Classic Editor and haven’t had this problem in perhaps six years. If it starts happening with the Classic editor, there will be blood on the walls when I’m through with them.