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  stormswrecks · Member · Mar 26, 2015 at 7:59 pm

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  I wrote my first post, about 800 words. It looked good in preview, but when I published it only about 150 words showed up, followed by … Why and what do I do to correct this? How do I delete that post and re-post so the whole thing shows up?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 26, 2015 at 8:47 pm

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  Oh no! 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.

  NOTE: The revision management system from WP-admin is not built into the new editor, so saving the draft saves only the most recent version, but not previous versions.

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

  To locate draft PAGES Dashboard > Pages> All Pages > Drafts
  http://stormsatsea.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
  Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New
  If you have cookies enabled on your browser your preference will be saved unless or until your clear your cookies, and it will take you to the classic editor automatically every time you create a new post via the drop-down menu in the black admin bar or edit a post via the edit button on the blog itself.

  2. Immediately after creating a post and entering a title click the save draft link. Thereafter, “click save draft” frequently.

  3. Always allow pages to fully load before clicking any other links.

  4. 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.

  5. Use an offline blog editor so you have backups on your own computer http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/

  If you do not locate the post in your drafts or private posts then please provide the title and URL of it here please as I tagged this thread for Staff help. Then subscribe to the thread, so you are notified when they respond. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.

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  stormswrecks · Member · Mar 26, 2015 at 10:53 pm

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  Thanks timethief, but losing the post isn’t the problem; I wrote it in Microsoft Word and copied it to WordPress so I still have it. My first question is: Why did WordPress only publish part of the article, and how can I avoid that with the second posting? The second question is: How do I delete the article on my site so people don’t think I’m an idiot.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 27, 2015 at 3:38 pm

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  I have provided the only information and advice that I can provide above.