Writing blog….then disappeared

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  niteowl049 · Member · Nov 19, 2014 at 6:45 pm

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  Was writing a blog about Mary Tyler Moore, accidentally hit back arrow and then went to dashboard and it wasn’t on list of blogs. I was within five minutes of finishing.

  I thought blogs were automatically saved periodically. I have worked over two hours and now I will have to start over.

  Thank you,
  Andrew

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

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  timethief · Member · Nov 19, 2014 at 6:46 pm

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  To locate drafts Dashboard > Posts > All Post > Drafts
  http://nostalgia049.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=post

  Provided you did not create the post in the new Beep Beep Boop editor where it’s saved only on your browser, and is not auto-saved to the servers for your blog I can help you with this.

  If the post was created on the dashboard of your own blog at Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New then you ought to be able to recover a lost post or page from revisions if needs be.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/
  See also if applicable > restoring from trash http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/#restoring-from-trash

  (If you are referring to a Page then see here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-revisions/)

  I recommend:

  1. Always create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog at
  2. Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New
  3. Immediately after creating a post and entering a title click the save draft link. Thereafter, “click save draft” frequently.
  4. Always allow pages to fully load before clicking any other links.
  5. 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.
  6. Use an offline blog editor so you have backups on your own computer http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/

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

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  niteowl049 · Member · Nov 19, 2014 at 7:24 pm

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  Thanks for sending the links. Stumbled across a link to locate post in browser and finished the blog and it is now published.

  Thank you very much for the help.

  Andrew

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  timethief · Member · Nov 19, 2014 at 7:30 pm

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  Hooray! I love happy endings. Best wishes with your blog Andrew.

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  niteowl049 · Member · Nov 19, 2014 at 7:41 pm

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  Thank you for telling me about the links, or I wouldn’t have found the link that found it in the browser.

  Blog is going well with over 844,000 hits since I started it in 2009. Hope to go over a million by end of 2015.

  Andrew

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  timethief · Member · Nov 19, 2014 at 7:41 pm

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  Cool. :)