Overwritten post

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  gaudion3 · Member · Mar 6, 2015 at 5:29 pm

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  I posted a new post this morning and it took the place of my previous post (from 3 days ago). Comments on the original post are now showing up on today’s post. And the original post is not in the trash or in my list of posts. When I post the link to the blog post, it links it as the title of the original post. Did I lose the original post forever? I didn’t edit the original post. I created a new blog post when I logged in today. Thx.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 6, 2015 at 5:37 pm

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  The Revisions screen shows any backup copies of your post. Each time you click Save Draft or Update, a revision is saved. WordPress.com will store the last 25 revisions for each post on your blog. Revisions allow you to look back at the recent changes you’ve made and revert to an earlier version if necessary. https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/

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  gaudion3 · Member · Mar 6, 2015 at 7:01 pm

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  Thank you! I’m still not sure what happened but I was at least able to recover the text of the lost post!!

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  timethief · Member · Mar 6, 2015 at 7:03 pm

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  That’s great news. I have some advice as well below.

  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 in the future.

  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://runmomrepeat.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=post

  To locate draft PAGES Dashboard > Pages> All Pages > Drafts
  http://runmomrepeat.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/