Will New Post autosave?

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  laurielevinelcsw · Member · Jul 10, 2012 at 11:05 pm

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  I was typing in “new post”. Clicked “save as draft” several times. There is no record of it. Is there any way to retrieve it?
  Blog url: http://laurielevinelcsw.wordpress.com/

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  timethief · Member · Jul 10, 2012 at 11:06 pm

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  You may be able to recover an earlier Post Revision. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/ 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.

  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 by using the instructions I provided 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

  Advice:
  When you start a new post, add the title, set it to private and then publish it. When you are done with the post, set it back to publish and update it. The problem with posts disappearing when saved as a draft has been around for a while, but only seems to hit a small number of people randomly.

  The other choice is to get and use an offline blog client such as Windows Live Writer (Windows) or Ecto (Mac) and then everything is saved on your computer and when you are done with the post, you actually publish it directly from the blog client software. See here for offline blog editors so you don’t have to go through this again http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/

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  laurielevinelcsw · Member · Jul 10, 2012 at 11:20 pm

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  Thanks for the suggestions. I can’t seem to find it, so it must not have gotten going. Weird. I was working at my office on my personal hot spot that is poor service. Maybe when I went to save it just didn’t happen :(

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  timethief · Member · Jul 10, 2012 at 11:25 pm

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  I’m so sorry this happened to you. It’s happened to me too and that’s why I blogged it > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/03/21/wordpress-recovering-a-lost-blog-post-or-page/

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  travisgonzales · Member · Jul 18, 2012 at 6:51 am

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  Ah so sad just happened to me too. I was typing in “new post” went up to the setting gear thing I could tweak something and it went to a whole different page. An hour of writing down the tube…. ah well. Thanks for the clarity and I feel it is a lesson well learned.