My text in a post is gone
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I wrote a blog post yesterday, and I just went to click on the link and its gone. The post is still there but all of the text is gone. Is there anyway to retrieve it or backtrack on my page and fix this?
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I discovered in a roundabout way that one of the pictures I was trying to post was causing the problem. I can’t understand why, I simply copied the URL from a newspaper, but I copied and published my post paragraph by paragraph, and as I uploaded this picture, everything disappeared again. So I removed the photo (I had only previewed, not published) and the post is now up.
But I would love to know what was causing the glitch in the first place. I’ve done this thousands of times before with never such a weird problem.
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Probably not but you can try.
Staff are working on improving post 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 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
To locate draft POSTS Dashboard > Posts > All Post > Drafts
http://soyouwanttosavetheworldblog.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=postTo locate draft PAGES Dashboard > Pages> All Pages > Drafts
http://soyouwanttosavetheworldblog.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=pageI 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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Timethief, thank you for your good advice. I always use the classic editor, although the new editor has very much improved from their first efforts. I also often save the post in another application on my computer (word or notepad) just to be on the safe side. I ought to do it as a matter of course.
My own problem was solved as I wrote above. I discovered that the problem was (I presume) some code or html embedded in the URL of a picture I was trying to post. By a series of trial and error I realized that it was that particular picture that was stripping the text out of my post. Most peculiar.
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