publishing, previewing, editing
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How about “Kicks in the Butt,” instead of hugs? I spent more than an hour writing and editing a 400 word post. I thought I’d published it, but when I closed the page, I discovered I hadn’t. I thought Word Press had saved my draft, but it hadn’t. I publicized the photo and caption I’d posted on Facebook. The first words of my lost blog are there, but not on Word Press. This just drives me nuts. When I write, preview, and edit, I constantly have to go back and forth between my blog page and the page I’m editing to make sure that what I think has been published actually has been published. Two articles I’d intended to publish in November somehow wound up in the drafts file, when I intended to publish them. They were time sensitive posts, so I can’t publish them until next November.
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I feel your pain. A couple of suggestions:
1. Remember to click update before going to preview the post. Because when you preview a post it opens another window, but it does not automatically save your work. Sometimes I’ve lost work because I forgot the page I was looking at was a preview and not actually published.
2. If this keeps being a problem, compose in a text editor. For me, the writing process is easier in Word or even Notebook. I prefer a very simple screen as there are less distractions, it helps with my discipline to finish the thought before going for the cool formatting and graphics.
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Also don’t use the Quick Post bogus editor – something about the auto-save not working and other bugs – use the regular editor
Dashboard >> Posts –
Save often –
Pasting directly from M/S Word will curse your blog.
Paste From Word
XML – Offline Editing
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http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/windows-live-writer/
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Thank you for the tips. I will use the update button. I tried composing using Word and then importing to my blog, but it didn’t work. I can’t remember why. It’s a long time since I even tried. I’d prefer to do it that way.
I’ve never used Quick Post. I’m not sure I could even find it, which I guess is just as well.
I looked up Word Press on Facebook. It seems that other people have been having problems as well, so it’s not just my own “newbie” ignorance. There is a WP software that can be downloaded. I did so, but there were no instructions as to what to do next.
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Hey, thanks… I didn’t know about that Paste from Word button. If I’m working in Word, I’ll paste it into notepad and then cut ‘n past into WordPress.
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You’re welcome. Good luck! I hope it works for you; it didn’t for me. If it does work for you, I’d like to know how you did it.
Here’s another bit of WP weirdness that I hope someone can help with.
1. I wrote an “about” bio, but it doesn’t show up on my page and I can’t find it.2. With Chrome my blog has a “search” feature, but not on FireFox. What’s going on? I’m increasingly annoyed with FF.
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