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  bilinguish · Member · Feb 8, 2011 at 2:05 am

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  Hi everyone,
  I’m subscribed to my own blog. I posted today and got an unusual email- instead of saying the name of the new post, it said “Auto Draft” with no information. But when I click on the link, it brings me to the post in question. However I’m not able to edit the post. When I click on the edit button, the editing screen comes up completely blank, as if I had never written anything at all. The post I’m trying to edit is here: http://bilinguish.wordpress.com/2011/02/07/accents/ Any ideas? Thanks!

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  blakewatson · Member · Feb 8, 2011 at 2:31 am

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  Hmm, try clearing your browser’s cache and cookies and see if that makes a difference. Here’s a handy little guide:

  http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=32050

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  bilinguish · Member · Feb 8, 2011 at 3:42 am

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  That didn’t work, and the post keeps partially disappearing and popping up again. For a while it didn’t load at all, and then everything loaded except the title. I had a number of views to that page since I published it, but suddenly my Stats page wouldn’t show the name of the page, only (Untitled). Following a direct link sometimes worked and sometimes didn’t. Finally I created a duplicate copy of it in a new post, with the same title and URL and everything. The phantom post showed up in my Zemanta recommended links but other than that there was no problem. I believe that has solved the problem. I haven’t seen the phantom post since, but it might still be out there lurking…

  What could have caused this? Could it be a result of not using the proper button to paste text from Microsoft Word?

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  timethief · Member · Feb 8, 2011 at 3:48 am

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  When I click on the edit button, the editing screen comes up completely blank, as if I had never written anything at all.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 8, 2011 at 3:52 am

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  Could it be a result of not using the proper button to paste text from Microsoft Word?

  Possibly but I can’t say for sure. What I do know is copying and pasting from WORD results in extraneous and malformed HTML. See here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/microsoft-word/#using-word-cleanly

  But also be sure you have enabled this > Settings > Writing
  __ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically
  “Save Changes”

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  thesacredpath · Member · Feb 8, 2011 at 4:25 am

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  What browser and browser version are you using?

  Have you tried a different browser?