WordPress keeps deleting poritons of my pages
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I started editing this page today, and after I saved it, it removed everything before the part I edited. I had to paste this into a word proccessor file to preserve it because even when I saved from the version I had open, it still hacked off everything. This is an inventory of my comicbook collection, which starts with an introductiory paragraph before proceeding with numbers and A titles, and now it starts with Epic, which was the first addition I made.
I don’t know what you’re doing to WordPress, but you’re making it worse. I don’t understand how you can possibly believe that truncating people’s documents is helpful. Telling me to split it into multiple pages isn’t helpful, either, because the last thing that I would want to do is Ctrl-F through multiple different pages. The main reason that I wanted to update this page is so that I would be less likely to buy duplicates when I am out because I would have a version that I can access on my phone, and now, you’ve made it worse by removing a massive section of document–the part that was fully updated. I don’t appreciate this one bit.
https://scottandrewhutchins.wordpress.com/my-comicbook-collection/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi Scott,
I’m sorry to hear about the trouble you’re having here. Losing part of a page is frustrating, but I’m glad you were able to preserve the content by copying it into a word doc. That was a good call.
What you’re experiencing isn’t an intentional truncation by WordPress. What’s happening is that the page you’re editing has grown extremely large, and web editors can struggle once a single page reaches that size. Nothing was deliberately removed; it’s just that at the current size, this page is very likely to continue losing content during edits.
I know you’d prefer not to split the content, but that’s what’ll help you achieve stability and reliability here. What may help you avoid having to Ctrl-F across your pages is to add a search block or widget. You can add your search query to that, and it’ll bring up the right page. I also suggest looking into Jetpack Search as a powerful upgrade to the native WordPress search, which can help you find things more quickly.
We have step-by-step instructions here for implementing pagination: https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/page-break-block/
The bottom line is that a page with 128,000+ characters is not best practice and often leads to performance, editing, SEO, and stability problems. Breaking it into structured, focused pages will almost always improve site speed, rankings, and maintainability.
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