Restore missing blog

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  joannedi · Member · May 28, 2013 at 12:38 pm

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  A blog that I had posted and received multiple views and likes suddenly is now listed as a draft, which is an earlier version and missing later revisions. Can the posted version be restored?

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

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  timethief · Member · May 28, 2013 at 3:16 pm

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  I believe you are referring to a blog post and not a blog. Have you tried editing the post and changing the “draft” to “public” and then clicking “update”? See here please edit post screen > http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/#deleting-posts

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  timethief · Member · May 28, 2013 at 3:17 pm

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  WordPress.com has an autosave feature and you may be able to recover an earlier post revision. Go to Posts > All Posts, hover over the title of the post, click Edit and check the Post Revisions module for previous saved versions of the post. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/

  If you’re not seeing the Revisions module while on the editor screen, click Screen Options (top right corner of your Admin page) http://en.support.wordpress.com/screen-options/ to activate it. Then select the post and page modules to include them. http://en.support.wordpress.com/modules/#list-of-modules Then you ought to be able to go here > Dashboard > All Posts > Posts and locate the post and recover it from post revisions.

  If you cannot locate the post for locating and restoring a post revision, and it’s not in your Trash folder http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/ then you will not be able to recover it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/#restoring-from-trash

  Advice:
  Create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog
  Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New

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

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  joannedi · Member · May 28, 2013 at 5:39 pm

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  Thank you so very much for your accurate answer. I went back to my PC and followed your instructions with ease. However, I could not find the same menus and options on my iPhone or iPad. Hugs to you for saving my article that had much more information in it then would have been comfortable for me to easily rewrite.

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  timethief · Member · May 28, 2013 at 5:55 pm

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  Hooray! You recovered your post. Best wishes.

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  timethief · Member · May 28, 2013 at 5:56 pm

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  Re: your iphone and ipad issue

  This is just to be sure are you running the latest version of the app http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/wpios-3-1/

  Here’s the link for the iOs forums http://ios.forums.wordpress.org/
  You may want to post here so the developers are aware of the issues your bring forward > http://ios.forums.wordpress.org/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting

  If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.org, click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the iOs forums.