what happened to my post?

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  yogativity · Member · May 14, 2013 at 10:03 pm

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  Hi, I registered, created and published my first post today…I was really happy! However, it has not been posted. I have used the advice in the support area, checked other devices in the household and have other people in various other places check and they do not see it either. It is not even in my drafts…although there are 2 drafts in there, neither are the correct one that I clicked to publish. I must be overlooking something…can you help me?

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  timethief · Member · May 14, 2013 at 10:09 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

  Did you create your post on the dashboard of your own blog?
  Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New

  Or did you create your post on the front page of WordPress.com?
  http://wordpress.com/#!/post/

  How do I avoid this problem in the future?

  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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  yogativity · Member · May 14, 2013 at 10:32 pm

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  Thanks for all that info…
  I will follow up. I did copy and paste much of what I wrote so that was helpful for me to just re-create the post. I hope it goes up this time.

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  timethief · Member · May 14, 2013 at 10:33 pm

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  You’re welcome.