Where is my draft???

  • Unknown's avatar

    I had a draft of my first bog that I was working on last week and I cant find it now.

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

  • Unknown's avatar

    I’ve found that mine disappear, too. There used to be a tab to click to see drafts. Then, they were moved to the upper right of the screen. Now, they’re gone. Go to “My Site” and then scroll down to “WP Admin” (found at the bottom of the left side of the screen). From there, click “posts” on the left side of the screen. Up at the very top, you should see a “draft” category. After you click on it, you can edit the draft there. Or, if you want to edit it like you do normally, up at the top you can click “There’s an easier way to create on WordPress.com. Switch to the improved editor.” You’ll get back to where you should be. This is a lot of work, and I don’t know why it’s happening.

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    @mystory116

    The Admin login link for that site is

    http://mystory116.wordpress.com/wp-admin

    The saved draft posts are found at
    http://mystory116.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=post

    The saved draft pages are found at
    http://mystory116.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=page

    Staff are working on improving post and page revisions. The most recent 25 revisions are available for posts and pages.

    If you cannot restore from your browser, or locate a revision, or restore from Trash then the content has been lost and cannot be recovered.

    re: recovering a lost post or page
    Please go to https://wordpress.com/post with the same browser and see if it offers to restore a post. If a restore button appears, that means a local copy was saved in your browser and you may be able to recover it.

    If the post was created on the dashboard of your own blog at Dashboard > Pages > Add New then you ought to be able to recover a lost post or page from revisions if needed.
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/page-revisions/

    See also if applicable > restoring from trash http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/#restoring-from-trash

    I recommend:
    1. Always create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog at
    Dashboard > Posts > Add New and pages at Dashboard > Pages > Add New
    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.

    2. Immediately after creating a post and entering a title click the save draft link. Thereafter, “click save draft” frequently.

    3. Always allow pages to fully load before clicking any other links.

    4. 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.

    5. Use an offline blog editor so you have backups on your own computer http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/

    If you were using the app you could report that here https://apps.wordpress.org/support/

  • Unknown's avatar

    I’m having the same problem. The draft is showing on my hand held device using the app, but not working directly on the website.
    Drafts seem to be missing. I didn’t have this problem last week.

  • Unknown's avatar

    I found mine!!!
    go to the WP admin section and then to the dashboard. On the right hand side under “Quick” drafts, it was listed at the bottom of that section.

    good luck

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