Unsure how I made a change but cannot restore to original.

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  kurtp2626 · Member · Oct 17, 2014 at 6:07 pm

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  I have been working on my website for a couple hours. I logged out and came back and the opening page is what was formerly my Blog page (and nothing in the menu is highlighted). When I go to the blog it is empty.

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

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  timethief · Member · Oct 17, 2014 at 6:10 pm

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  Provided you did not create the post(s) 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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  timethief · Member · Oct 17, 2014 at 6:11 pm

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  P.S. This blog is not “empty” http://dcbskurtpease.wordpress.com/ and that begs the question which blog are you referring to? Please provide the URL for the blog in question in the form of an active link starting with http://

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  kurtp2626 · Member · Oct 18, 2014 at 3:27 am

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  Blog is not empty…..Correct and maybe I am describing my problem incorrectly.

  Link to my site: http://dcbskurtpease.wordpress.com/

  When going to this address it shows what my blog page used to look like. Before, when clicking the same web address it went to the home page. In addition if you now click on the “Blog” in the menu at top of page it goes to a page with just a logo image on it.

  I would like the web address to go to the home page as it did previously and then by clicking on the blog page it should go to my blog which previously, showed what the above web address goes to now.

  Boy that’s hard to explain!

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  pmciano · Member · Oct 20, 2014 at 2:41 pm

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  @kurtp2626

  You can set a static page as your site’s Home Page here:

  https://dcbskurtpease.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php

  Set the Homepage

  Let us know if you have any more questions :-)