Where Are My Revisions Redux
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Five months ago, I posted a question to which there was no answer: why has WordPress eaten my edits? The fact of no answer portended that the question would arise again, and so it has: once again, hours upon hours of work vanished.
In this case, I had at least the blessing of a revision history, mysteriously absent last time around, and was thus able to restore all but a few recent edits. The mystery remains nonetheless, as perhaps WordPress personnel can verify upon looking at the revision history of the post in question.
Briefly, I had a complete post; I went in to edit it; and its text disappeared entirely — even as the revision comparator claimed that it was showing me the post’s text. I chose the autosave less traveled by, and that made all the difference: poof!
I could be more specific, but that would involve showing you the actual materials, and I don’t see a way here to do that.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Provided you did not create or edit 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(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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That’s good info about the Beep Beep Boop editor. I didn’t know that. In this case, though, I was working in the classic editor.
I did recover from revisions. The problem I am trying to describe is that the screen comparing revisions indicated that the autosave contained text; but when I opted to restore the autosave, I was left with an empty post. I had to choose a different revision to recover most of my article.
Thank you, as always, for what I understand is a volunteer commitment on your part.
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My revisions not infrequently show as completely void of content, or perhaps display nothing but a title, even on longish posts or pages. Luckily I save drafts frequently, and an adjacent revision perhaps made one minute earlier or later won’t be blank. I too would like to know what’s happening in such cases.
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@raywoodcock
Hi there and thanks for the explanation. I’m sorry you experience the empty post issue and happy you were able to restore and reconstruct.
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