Where did my posts go?

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  nannypovchicago · Member · Apr 9, 2013 at 5:56 pm

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  On 2 of my posts, they posted, and were liked by people, then suddenly, they disappear! What happened to them?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Apr 9, 2013 at 6:02 pm

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  We cannot help without titles and/or URLs for these posts. Please provide them.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 9, 2013 at 6:03 pm

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  You may be able to recover a 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/

  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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  nannypovchicago · Member · Apr 9, 2013 at 6:10 pm

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  One of the posts I just rewrote, and it saved fine. The other post is titled “ladysmith black mombazo’s gift of the tortoise

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  nannypovchicago · Member · Apr 9, 2013 at 6:11 pm

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  I submitted the post through the iPad app

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  timethief · Member · Apr 9, 2013 at 9:37 pm

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  I have tagged this thread for Staff assistance. Please be patient while waiting.

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  nannypovchicago · Member · Apr 11, 2013 at 11:02 pm

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  I still haven’t heard anything! And it keeps happening! Can someone please help?

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  timethief · Member · Apr 11, 2013 at 11:33 pm

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  If you cannot locate the post restore 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.

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 12, 2013 at 12:02 am

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  For now, try using an offline blog editor like Ecto or Windows Live Writer. If you make long posts, it’s important to prevent the loss of these posts and using an offline blog editor will do that. There may be one specially designed for iPads.