WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Lost draft http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/lost-draft-7 WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Lost draft en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:25:21 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 timethief on "Lost draft" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/lost-draft-7#post-1117967 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:56:07 +0000 timethief 1117967@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ 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.

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

Did you create your post on the dashboard of your own blog?
Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New

Or did you create your post on the front page of WordPress.com?
http://wordpress.com/#!/post/

Advice:
Create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog
Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New

Or use an offline blog editor so your have backups on your own computer http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/

]]> ldlagarino on "Lost draft" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/lost-draft-7#post-1117956 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:47:35 +0000 ldlagarino 1117956@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I created a draft and saved it, intending to return to it later in the day. I know it was saved because I clicked view after saving it, and my draft came up. When I tried to pull it up later to continue working on it, it had vanished. This is a major problem. I had it just right and have been unable to duplicate it. Please explain.

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