Post Disappeared
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Help! I wrote two posts today. I published one, a book review of “Speak to Me That I May Speak” this morning. I got “likes” and saw stats for it. Then, moments ago, I published a new review of “Shine Shine Shine.” However, on the blog, that new post appears to have overwritten the earlier post. The URL is for the earlier post, not the “Shine” post, and the morning post is nowhere to be seen. I hit “new post” to start the second review, and never opened an edit on the first one. What happened? Can this morning’s work be found somewhere? Thanks.
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To locate drafts Dashboard > Posts > All Post > Drafts
http://forthesomedaybook.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=postProvided 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 I can help you with this.
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(If you are referring to a Page then see here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-revisions/)
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/If you cannot locate a revision or restore from Trash then the content has been lost and cannot be recovered.
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Hello!
What I would suggest is that you change the menu slug to represent the current post of Shine Shine Shine.I also was able to find your older post using Google’s Caching:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Q3P3keZHjWEJ:https://forthesomedaybook.wordpress.com/2014/11/14/book-review-speak-to-me-that-i-may-speak/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-aWhat you might consider is creating a new post and adding the older book review in it.
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Thank you both so much! I was able to locate the old post in the previous revisions, per timethief’s suggestion. I saved the new one as a Word doc, reverted to the old revision, and created another new post.
Weird. I’m guessing operator error is somehow to blame, but I’ve been blogging for a long time here with no technical trouble like this!
One more question: I have been using the Beep Beep Boop, because I can’t figure out how to get to the original way. Can you direct me there, so I have better backup for next time?
Thanks again for your help!
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Classic editor > Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New
http://forthesomedaybook.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.php -
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