Post lost, no draft, no trace.
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I am really dismayed that I seem to have lost my post early this morning. I’m hoping there’s still some way to retrieve it. I wrote a long post and when I went to publish it it glitched somehow and never “moved”..and when I eventually refreshed the page, it was gone. I’ve had blogs on WP for a few years and never had an issue.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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You checked in your WPAdmin Dashboard for the draft of the post and there’s nothing there? Were you using the new Beep Beep Boop editor?
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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://foreveradio.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=postTo locate draft PAGES Dashboard > Pages> All Pages > Drafts
http://foreveradio.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/ -
Yeah, I didn’t know about the separate editing platforms until this happened. I’ve never had this kind of issue before with WordPress. Clearly it’s gone and I’m a wreck over it.
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