Using WordPress on iPad

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  leadingessentially · Member · Jun 13, 2013 at 1:51 pm

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  I was on a flight last night and continued working on a half written post on my iPad. Because I was in airplane mode I was offline and simply saved my writing. When I got to my hotel I connected to the net and uploaded my content. What happened was the old content that was online (the version that was modified on the airplane) overwrote my new version and I lost all my work. Does the application not check for time stamps and take the newest version or at least ask which version to keep?

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Jun 13, 2013 at 9:38 pm

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  Hi,

  Version conflict is a very complicated problem. Especially so when dealing with jumping between on and offline modes. We are working on improving things so that these sort of issues are rare. But as I said, it’s a tricky problem and takes a lot of work and feedback to get correct.

  If you were interested in making some good come out of your lost post, I would love a more detailed listing of the steps that you did from initial post creation to when you ended up losing your post (including if you were on or offline with each step). That sort of thing helps us out a lot.

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  leadingessentially · Member · Jun 13, 2013 at 10:22 pm

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  I initially created the post within an online IE 8.0 session and saved it as a draft.

  I then edited the session when on the iPad based application (a recent version just before 3.6) when on an airplane (not in airplane mode but without 3G capabilities) and I saved it by hitting “cancel” and then “update draft”. I probably repeated this step 5 times. One of the changes I made was to retitle the post.

  I then got to my hotel and connected to the wireless network. I “pulled down” the list of posts to cause a refresh and found that the post has switched back to the old name and old content.

  Hope this helps!! I’m counting on my rewrite turning out better than the original!!

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Jun 14, 2013 at 2:52 am

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  Thank you for taking the time to do that! We appreciate it.

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  kokejb · Staff · Jun 14, 2013 at 7:18 am

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  Ian, thanks for the details. It seems you’ve found a bug where the cancel-update draft combination doesn’t mark correctly that the post has changes. I’ll look into fixing it for a next release.

  In the meantime, if the post is already a draft you can just tap the Update button in the top-right corner. That’ll try to upload the post and appear as failed, but that failed status is how we decide not to overwrite the contents.

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  leadingessentially · Member · Jun 14, 2013 at 12:22 pm

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  Thanks for the diligence in following up.

  I’ve used the update button before but have then found it awkward or been distrustful of the process of merging content afterwards. Hence why I went down this path.

  Cheers,

  Ian