YOUR SITE OVERWROTE MY ALREADY POSTED POST WITH AN OLD DRAFT THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN THERE

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  yaykisspurr · Member · Jul 3, 2017 at 4:55 am

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  Looking at my drafts I found some odd half finished posts that I had already posted so I started deleting them only to learn that even though they said they were drafts they were posted posts… I was able to restore the posts I deleted.

  I also edited one post that was in a rough state (the body of the post was not there) so I assumed it was a copy I made for a future post so I edited the title. BUT IT WASN’T A DRAFT AT ALL it was the REAL POST even though the body of the text was not there. I saved it with the new title and IT OVERWROTE MY POST WITH THE OLD EMPTY DRAFT!!!

  Can you please restore my original post?
  https://perspectiveofawriter.wordpress.com/2017/06/28/top-5-hate-to-love-ships-k-drama-style/
  https://perspectiveofawriter.wordpress.com/?p=9660&preview=true

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

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  mrlodgical · Member · Jul 3, 2017 at 5:04 am

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  As you know you can restore deleted probably know you can restore deleted posts as long as 30 days have not passed. See here:

  Delete a Page or Post

  if that doesn’t help you feel free to add the ‘modlook’ tag to the post so that a moderator/staff member can take a look to help you.

  Hope you get it all fixed,
  Good luck

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  mrlodgical · Member · Jul 3, 2017 at 5:05 am

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  Sorry, mis-typed the first sentance:

  As you probably know…..

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  yaykisspurr · Member · Jul 3, 2017 at 4:03 pm

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  Yes, I retored the posts I deleted… it is the edited post that got overwritten that I have no recourse on except WordPress restores it.

  I will add that tag, thank you.

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  supernovia · Staff · Jul 4, 2017 at 2:39 am

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  Hi @yaykisspurr, have you looked at your post revisions? We keep up to 25. You can see how to find them here:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/editors/page-post-revisions/

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  yaykisspurr · Member · Jul 4, 2017 at 4:03 am

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  THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I really appreciate it supernovia!! *big sigh* I am so relieved!! It worked and now I know what to do if that happens again… though I’m not sure why my drafts have old potentially post killing copies but at this point I don’t care and am happy to have my post back!!

  It was one of my best written about this subject, woot!!

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  supernovia · Staff · Jul 4, 2017 at 4:45 pm

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  So glad you’ve got it back! Cheers!