Where are my drafts going?

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  judytherainbow · Member · Feb 18, 2011 at 1:33 am

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  I am new to WP and blogging, so perhaps this is just a learning curve issue, but I am having problems with my drafts disappearing before I publish. First, I tried to find the draft from Autosave because I thought I had been able to do that previously. When that failed, I re-wrote my post from scratch, added photographs, etc, then used the Save button to save it as a draft. That was 2 days ago. When I returned to add to it today, there was no draft listed on my dashboard.

  Is it just me, or is there a problem?

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  airodyssey · Member · Feb 18, 2011 at 2:28 am

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  Hi. Check your posts AND your pages, just in case. Also these support docs might be of use: more info on drafts and also on autosave:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-status/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/autosave/

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  thesacredpath · Member · Feb 18, 2011 at 3:48 am

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  Also at the top of the post listing page (posts > posts) you can click on the link that says , “drafts” and it will bring up only posts that are still in draft.

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  judytherainbow · Member · Feb 18, 2011 at 6:10 am

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  Thank you both for responding. I found them under Pages as airodyssey suggested. Posts > Drafts was where I had expected to find them. I hadn’t known that they would be moved after a certain amount of time.
  Thanks again.

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 18, 2011 at 6:12 am

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  They should NEVER be moved unless you do it yourself. All pages and posts are listed under Pages and Posts, whether they have been published or not.

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  auxclass · Member · Feb 18, 2011 at 6:18 am

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  I doubt anything moved – probably did all the writing on Pages.

  Pages vs. Posts

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  judytherainbow · Member · Feb 18, 2011 at 6:43 pm

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  Thanks, I didn’t know about Pages. I thought I was making Posts, but I am new to this and still figuring things out, mostly through trial and error.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 18, 2011 at 6:54 pm

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  @judytherainbow
  This post explains in greater detail and as you are new I think you will benefit from reading it too. Better Blogging at WordPress.com: Pages and Posts http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/05/12/better-blogging-at-wordpress-com-pages-and-posts/
  In case this ever happens again, this post explains what to do to locate a lost page or post and restore it where possible. WordPress: Recovering a lost blog post or page http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/03/21/wordpress-recovering-a-lost-blog-post-or-page/

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  judytherainbow · Member · Feb 18, 2011 at 7:52 pm

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  @Timethief – thanks for the links. That is a great explanation of the differences between Pages and Posts.
  My initial blog entry is a Post but somehow (I have no clue) I managed to make my second as a Page. Is there an easy way to convert it into a Post?