Where did my Blogpost disappear to?

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    kittynn · Member ·

    I just wrote a blogpost, always making sure to save it inbetween and when I finally finished and posted it, everything seemed to have worked. It said something about posting worked and gave me a link to the new post. However the link it gave me , was for an old blogpost and the new post seems to have disappeared. I also cannot find it in the overview of all posts written and neither in the drafts section.
    It was named “WMDEDGT? 01/15” and I postet it around midnight – so roughly half an hour ago.
    Is there a way to find it again? I would hate to have to rewrite it :(

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    timethief · Member ·

    Hello there,
    Hopefully, you will be able to locate the draft or a post revision.

    To locate draft POSTS Dashboard > Posts > All Post > Drafts
    http://kittynn.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=post

    To locate draft PAGES Dashboard > Pages> All Pages > Drafts
    http://kittynn.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=page

    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

    (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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