WordPress.com Forums » Topic: I spent over an hour typing a post and lost all but the last couple of paragraph http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-spent-over-an-hour-typing-a-post-and-lost-all-but-the-last-couple-of-paragraph WordPress.com Forums » Topic: I spent over an hour typing a post and lost all but the last couple of paragraph en Tue, 21 May 2013 19:08:47 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 timethief on "I spent over an hour typing a post and lost all but the last couple of paragraph" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-spent-over-an-hour-typing-a-post-and-lost-all-but-the-last-couple-of-paragraph#post-998071 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:04:37 +0000 timethief 998071@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Both thesacredpath and I and the other Volunteers being saying the same thing for many years now. Using an offline blog editor or plain text editor is a prevention measure and what this blogger needs is help with trying to recover a post.

]]> notawoodpecker on "I spent over an hour typing a post and lost all but the last couple of paragraph" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-spent-over-an-hour-typing-a-post-and-lost-all-but-the-last-couple-of-paragraph#post-998015 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:17:31 +0000 notawoodpecker 998015@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I've always told people to prepare everything off-line using something like Notepad, then save it locally so you'll have a copy in case of a problem while on-line.

]]> timethief on "I spent over an hour typing a post and lost all but the last couple of paragraph" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-spent-over-an-hour-typing-a-post-and-lost-all-but-the-last-couple-of-paragraph#post-997996 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:02:46 +0000 timethief 997996@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The sad news is that if were using the "Add New" on the main page for wordpress.com here http://wordpress.com/#!/post/ then the draft is lost and cannot be recovered. That link is only for creating "Asides":
Aside – These are brief snippets of text that aren’t quite whole blog posts. Useful for quick thoughts and anecdotes http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-formats/

The good news is if your created the post on your own dashboard there may be a happy ending. http://survivinginthestorm.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.php

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.

If you cannot locate the post for locating and restoring a post revision, and it's not in your Trash folder http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/ then you will not be able to recover it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/#restoring-from-trash

Advice:
When you start a new post, add the title, set it to private and then publish it. When you are done with the post edit it to update it and set it back to publish. The other choice is to get and use an offline blog client such as Windows Live Writer (Windows) or Ecto (Mac) and then everything is saved on your computer and when you are done with the post, you actually publish it directly from the blog client software. See here for offline blog editors so you don't have to go through this again http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc

]]> linnysue on "I spent over an hour typing a post and lost all but the last couple of paragraph" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-spent-over-an-hour-typing-a-post-and-lost-all-but-the-last-couple-of-paragraph#post-997940 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:52:41 +0000 linnysue 997940@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I lost most of a post when I published it. is there a word limit. Spent an hour typing it out and lost all but last couple of paragraphs!
Blog url: http://survivinginthestorm.wordpress.com/

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