Saving and Publishing
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I don’t even know where to begin. I published a post, but when I clicked View Post, the post that was displayed was from an earlier, unedited version. I quickly set the post to private because it was not the final version. There were 25 revisions, but not one of the final edit. I had to rewrite most of the post from memory. At this point, I was cursing up a storm! When finished, I copied and pasted the post to a New Post, deleted the private post, and clicked Publish. In my email were two notifications … for both versions. The puzzling thing is that the emailed posts were copies of the original, finished article that was not displaying on my blog after the first posting. And both email versions link back to my blog even though the first post (that was made private) was permanently deleted. I have practically stopped posting on WordPress because I’ve had nothing but problems with the new editor. It’s like with Windows — version 7 was great, but 10 makes me want to smash my computer every day. As the old saying goes, ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’
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Hi there,
Can you please let me know the title of your post so I can have a closer look at what happened?
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fstat, the title is Living in a #World. Both of the email notifications still link back to the original post, but one of those was permanently deleted.
If I had first checked the notifications, I would have seen that the first version posted properly. What I can’t figure out is why the final revision was not saved, and why an earlier rough draft displayed on my blog.
I previewed the edit, clicked publish, did the final check, the article posted, but when I clicked View Post, an unfinished draft displayed.
I’m totally baffled.
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Hm, so I don’t see any problems initially with https://soarusa.wordpress.com/2019/12/04/living-in-a-world/ nor do I see how this could have gone so wrong on the site.
Were you perhaps working on an entirely different one that was saved as a Draft instead of Published?
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macmanx, the short answer is, yes.
One of my recurring issues is that I have multiple WordPress accounts so that each blog can have it’s own identity. Having several blogs in one account does not work for me because the gravatar for the primary blog will appear across all the blogs.
I discovered that opening the blogs in one browser does not work, because a message will pop-up saying that I don’t have access to the other blogs. If I login to one account, the system won’t let me log into the others.
Having multiple accounts opened on my computer wreaks havoc much like what I’ve described here. WP advised me to open each account in a different browser, but this does not always work, either.
In this particular instance, the account linked to soarusa27 was opened in two different browsers. The saved draft of an earlier version is what was displayed on my blog when I clicked Publish.
What is puzzling is that the emailed notifications showed both final edits. Before I published the rewrite, I closed the second browser. This time, when I clicked View Post, the final revision properly displayed.
Having multiple accounts opened in one browser does not work nor does it seem having one account opened in different browsers — at least from my experience.
It would be so convenient to have all the blogs in one account so that when I switch blogs, the gravatar for that blog would be the identifier when, for example, posting comments elsewhere. As it stands, I can’t post a comment as the second, or third blog because the gravatar for the primary blog will appear.
This has caused confusion and embarrassment in the past, needless to say, which is why I now have multiple accounts. That, seemingly, is not the perfect solution, either.
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Based on what you describe above I think the problem is that, when you switch accounts, all cookies and saved session data in your browser isn’t being deleted properly, which then causes issues when you start working on a different site.
The only way to prevent that is to either delete browser cache and cookies completely each time, before you log into the next account, or else, if you’re using Chrome or Firefox you can set up different browser profiles, or with Firefox set up containers, for each separate account. Each browser profile or container would have its own session data, completely isolated from the session data in other containers, so this type of cross-contamination won’t happen then.
It would be so convenient to have all the blogs in one account so that when I switch blogs, the gravatar for that blog would be the identifier when, for example, posting comments elsewhere. As it stands, I can’t post a comment as the second, or third blog because the gravatar for the primary blog will appear.
So, your Gravatar image is tied to your WordPress.com username account, NOT to your blog. Which means if one account owns multiple blogs, the same username/gravatar image will display as the owner/author/comment replier on all those sites. This is by design.
If you want different identities to appear as the authors on different sites, then having separate accounts to manage the different sites really is the only way to do it.
Giving people the ability to be logged into multiple accounts at once and seamlessly switch between them like it works with Google/Gmail accounts has come up before, but is not something our team has tried implementing yet. I can add that to our feature request list.
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