some saved versions of a post are missing

• 

  volcman · Member · Nov 27, 2013 at 9:10 pm

  • Copy link
  • Add topic to favorites

  hi,

  i’ve been writing a post for a few weeks, and a few days ago i noticed that the most updated version is missing (although i saved it during editing), and the existing version is 3 weeks old.

  i can’t find the version i’m missing in the saved versions section, and i’m sure that i did save it during editing.

  what can be done in order to restore the missing version (which was almost the final version of the post… :- )?

  thanks,

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

• 

  volcman · Member · Nov 27, 2013 at 9:12 pm

  • Copy link

  the id (?) of the post i’m talking about it 1253.

• 

  timethief · Member · Nov 27, 2013 at 9:19 pm

  • Copy link

  Hello there,
  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/)

  But if the post was created here http://wordpress.com/#!/post/ there is no means of recovery as the auto-save is not functioning there.

  Always create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog at
  Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New
  The auto-save works there and the post will be Standard post format unless you change it.

  Do not create posts here > http://wordpress.com/#!/post/ where the auto-save is not working and where you are creating an Aside post format.

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

• 

  volcman · Member · Nov 28, 2013 at 7:10 pm

  • Copy link

  i created the post from the dashboard, but the version i’m referring to is not there.