My blog post disappeared!

  • catherinerosemountain · Member ·

    Hi WordPress, I published a post a few days ago (or maybe not?) and there is no sign of it anywhere. It’s not in my drafts, where it was saved before, and it’s definitely not on my blog. Where is it?! It took me days to write! Please help.

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  • angperegrino · Member ·

    Hi Catherine, can you check in your trash folder?

    1. Click “ALL POSTS” in the sidebar.
    2. Look for TRASH in the topbar. Click on that. (it should come with the other options:
    ALL | PUBLISHED | STICKY | DRAFT | TRASH

    3. Restore the blog post if it is there.

    Posts that are inadvertently deleted stay in the trash for 30 days before it is deleted permanently.

  • timethief · Member ·

    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/)

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

    I recommend:

    1. Always create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog at
      Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New
    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/
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