Where are my former revisions? WP ATE MY EDITED DRAFT or AM I DAFT?
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I am a clueless newbie who is now hovering between homicide and suicide.
For unknown reasons, I lost the edited revision (which I saved every few minutes) of a post I spent hours on. A message screen appeared, “There’s a more recent … RESTORE?” I took a chance and clicked on RESTORE which brought up the original post (18 hours earlier which was NOT my most recent draft). Does WP have a warped sense of humor?
WP writes about how to find the 25 most recent revisions, BUT the screens, etc shown do NOT exist for me. So, now what can I do?
If this is a WP glitch, it needs to be corrected. I spent many hours learning how to tweak my post, and in the process WP ate my revised post.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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There is a long standing issue Staff are aware of if you use the new post editor for creating or editing posts.
Provided you did not create the post 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 you may be able to recover a lost post or page.
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
To locate draft POSTS Dashboard > Posts > All Post > Drafts
http://brittonbell.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=postTo locate draft PAGES Dashboard > Pages> All Pages > Drafts
http://brittonbell.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=page(If you are referring to a Page then see here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-revisions/)
If you cannot locate a revision or restore from Trash then the content has been lost and cannot be recovered.
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/ -
Dear Timethief
Thanks for your quick response to my call for help. I have done all these things, which is why I am both frustrated and confused.
I did save my drafts every few minutes, but the instructions for finding 25 most recent revisions does not appear on my Dashboard/Edit/ etc.
That’s why I posted my question – arrrggggghhhhh
Thanks anyway.
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I’m sorry I was unable to help you resolve this. All I can suggest is that you use the classic post editor. At the top of the new editor page when creating a post you should see a link to use the Classic view instead. Click that link. Then, if you have cookies enabled on your browser your preference will be saved unless or until your clear your cookies, and it will take you to the classic editor automatically every time you create a new post via the drop-down menu in the black admin bar or edit a post via the edit button on the blog itself.
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OOOPPPPSSS
I only see BeepBeepBoop when I went from Preview to Edit, or Published Post to Edit page …
And, I have not Upgraded, either. I wanted to learn how to use WP before I spent anything.
It sounds as if I was in the B-B-P poop editor and that’s why my post and revisions went down the crapper (s**thole) …
If nothing else, I’ve learned a huge lesson —- create all my posts in Word they copy/paste into a new post/draft and insert my links etc after that point. (In previous posts which I created in Word, the links never came over or they were messed up).
Oh well, another day … another lesson from the WP Gods!
Thanks a ton, timethief – you rock!!
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Do NOT use the Beep Beep Boop editor. Use the Classic editor. It does not have this problem.
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As those who went before me so aptly said,
“Now, you tell me!”
Believe me, I will NEVER EVER use the BeepBeepBoopPOOP again!
This certainly clears up why I could not find any of the links, etc to find Revisions.
WHY in the world doesn’t WP tell folks this? Their “Beginners” videos, and Help pages are remiss in a HUGE way.
Thanks!
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As those who went before me so aptly said,
“Now, you tell me!”
Believe me, I will NEVER EVER use the BeepBeepBoopPOOP again!
This certainly clears up why I could not find any of the links, etc to find Revisions.
WHY in the world doesn’t WP tell folks this? Their “Beginners” videos, and Help pages are remiss in a HUGE way.
Thanks!
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Moving to the classic editor is one way to avoid this problem in the future. The other is to make sure you don’t have the newer editor open in multiple windows at the same time. That is the usual cause of problems like the one you described.
This is a known issue, and it’s being addressed.
If you send me a direct link to the post where you lost data, I’m also happy to take a second look to see if the revision can be restored.
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Thank you, listhefair, but I doubt there is any semblance of hope after tee hours I have spent reading WP “help” and especially after reading these posts.
It appears to me WP should NOT be placing a ‘hook’ which suggests there is an improved way to write a post, without providing a method of locating prior revisions.
That being said, I am always willing to accept a helpful hand. I have it sitting in a “published by me” because I hate the original version compared with mine after lots of changes, links, and niftier media inserts.
If I give you the URL for it will it open up my entire account, though?
Thanks,
The Curmudgeon (smiling)
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If I give you the URL for it will it open up my entire account, though?
It won’t :) If anyone who doesn’t have access to your account clicks the link they’ll just get notice that they don’t have permission to see the page.
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Thanks. I see several autosaves of that post here: https://brittonbell.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=92&action=edit
Do any of those look familiar?
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There is only one edit … and this is not the final one. The final revision appears to be long gone.
My frustration has turned to anger with WP. In the dashboard, New Post, WP indicates a “new improved/easier way” with a link to the BeepBeepBoop area. THAT’s where I went and that’s where I lost all revisions and my final draft (all of which I saved).
I wanted one final edit, saved it, and when I came back to it a few hours later – it was an earlier version. When I came to this earlier version, WP indicates “there is a newer version in The Browser” with a button, “RESTORE” and that’s when my not so final version was replaced with the first revision and that is now what appears.
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You have every right to be angry (not that you need my permission, of course). I wish I could have been more helpful.
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THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO LED ME IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
THIS WAS A PAINFUL LEARNING EXPERIENCE, AND WP SHOULD ADDRESS THIS DEVASTATING GLITCH IN THEIR ‘IMPROVED” EDITING AND NEW DRAFT PAGES.
DAMNATION, WP – YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES.
WOW, WHAT A GREAT TITLE FOR MY NEXT POST!!
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lizthefair …
the link you provided me is certainly better than nothing !! YAY!!
How did you get there???
Holy Moly …
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@brittonbell
Many of us, myself included, have experienced this miserable experience that may give rise to rage, over a prolonged period of time, as can be evidenced in part only by the posts I tagged with recovering a lost post or page.I am not discouraging you for publishing a post about this, but I chose not to publish a series of rants about this and other crazymaking changes that are referred to by some as improvements. I don’t believe it’s worth my time and effort to get worked up enough to do so.
Best wishes.
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LOL – lizthefair!!!
Curmudgeons are known for their upbeat, positive approach to life NOT!
After walking this earth more than six decades, I’ve hopefully have learned to pick my battles. That being said, WP should do something about this glitch.
How did you manage to find the revisions, though??????
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One last question, lizthefair
I have clicked on “Restore this Revision” but where does it restore it?
I can’t even tell IF it has restored it…
Thanks for letting me bug you to death.
If nothing else, perhaps others can learn from this exchange.
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