preparing a draft blog

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  theancientmariners · Member · Oct 25, 2014 at 5:43 pm

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  I just lost the text and pics I had uploaded for my draft new blog. What happened?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Oct 25, 2014 at 5:46 pm

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  To locate drafts Dashboard > Posts > All Post > Drafts
  http://theancientmariners.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=post

  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 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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  supportmyoffice · Member · Oct 25, 2014 at 5:52 pm

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  Had you hit the save draft button during your preparing?

  WordPress has a built-in Autosave that saves your work every two minutes. You may be able to restore to the latest autosave. You can read more about that here

  To learn how to restore a previous revision view this.

  Please let us know if that solves your issue.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 25, 2014 at 5:55 pm

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  Please read what I posted above.

  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 I can help you with this.

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  supportmyoffice · Member · Oct 25, 2014 at 6:15 pm

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  Thanks @timethief. I think we must have been hitting submit at the same time!

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  theancientmariners · Member · Oct 25, 2014 at 6:32 pm

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  Thank to you all. I was trying out the beep beep boop alternative editor. I have decided I prefer the Classic. You have given me some very good advice.
  Many thanks again from the AMs