WordPress post didn't autosave! Hours of work gone?
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Hi there. Like we do in this place, I’ve spent hours writing something… editing… and rewriting. I did not manually save as I have always seen it autosaving in all my other work before and assumed it was doing the same in this case. I returned 2 days later, and the version showing is my very first draft. None of my work was saved. Nothing. Why? Any chance of recovery? I’ve searched this topic, and it appears I may be SOL, but would like to understand what I might have done to prevent it from just autosaving like it has before. Thank you for any insight you can offer! :D
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Hi there,
If you are referring to http://cassperilla.wordpress.com/ the login link for that site is http://cassperilla.wordpress.com/wp-admin/The saved drafts posts are found at
http://cassperilla.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=postThe saved draft pages are found at
http://cassperilla.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=pageStaff are working on improving post and page revisions. 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.You cannot deactivate the new Beep Beep Boop editor but you do not have to use it. For locating the ways and means of accessing the legacy or classic pages for creating posts, editing posts, and viewing stats see here > Navigating the Classic WordPress.COM interface http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2015/04/05/navigating-the-classic-wordpress-com-interface/
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/
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P.S. It saved 25 revisions as it’s supposed to, but they are the FIRST 25 saves, not the most recent 25. It seems to have stopped saving after it made 25 autosaves (which happened to be all within the first hour of writing).
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I’m sorry but if you cannot locate a revision or restore from Trash then the content is lost.
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Thank you timethief. :) Any idea what I might have done for it to have just STOPPED saving?
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No, and I’m very sad to say that. :( When I blog I’m on a PC tunning Windows 10 and using a Firefox 45 browser and I don’t have these issues.
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