WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Accidentally saved over an existing post, can it be restored? http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/accidentally-saved-over-an-existing-post-can-it-be-restored WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Accidentally saved over an existing post, can it be restored? en Fri, 24 May 2013 20:19:53 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 timethief on "Accidentally saved over an existing post, can it be restored?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/accidentally-saved-over-an-existing-post-can-it-be-restored#post-1155523 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 02:27:48 +0000 timethief 1155523@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes, there are post revisions and you may be able to recover an earlier post revision. Go to Posts > All Posts, hover over the title of the post, click Edit and check the Post Revisions module for previous saved versions of the post. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/

If you're not seeing the Revisions module while on the editor screen, click Screen Options (top right corner of your Admin page) http://en.support.wordpress.com/screen-options/ to activate it. Then select the post and page modules to include them. http://en.support.wordpress.com/modules/#list-of-modules Then you ought to be able to go here > Dashboard > All Posts > Posts and locate the post and recover it from post revisions.

]]> shelbykpeterson on "Accidentally saved over an existing post, can it be restored?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/accidentally-saved-over-an-existing-post-can-it-be-restored#post-1154583 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 02:53:34 +0000 shelbykpeterson 1154583@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I saved over a post on accident, does WordPress keep a cache of posts, is there any way I can get my old post back?

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