WordPress.com Forums » Topic: My drafts do not publish -they just disapper. http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-drafts-do-not-publish-they-just-disapper WordPress.com Forums » Topic: My drafts do not publish -they just disapper. en Thu, 23 May 2013 07:52:14 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 timethief on "My drafts do not publish -they just disapper." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-drafts-do-not-publish-they-just-disapper#post-1164485 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:56:12 +0000 timethief 1164485@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ WordPress.com has an autosave feature 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.

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 you always have backups on your own computer http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/

]]> paualready on "My drafts do not publish -they just disapper." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-drafts-do-not-publish-they-just-disapper#post-1164480 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:53:53 +0000 paualready 1164480@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ My drafts do not post to my blog when I push the "publish" button. They are gone and when I go back to my drafts the initial drafts I "published" that did not show up are no longer among the drafts. The last post showing on my site is Feb 19, however I have published at least 2 since then. I have stopped writing because I don't want the time and effort lost when I "publish" only to have them disappear.

I am on WP.com (free version) and have been for over 3 years without problems.
I have tried to publish from Mozilla & IE, and from my tablet on Android -none of them work.
I have spent hours on the support forums looking for a solution to no avail
I have cleared my cache & cookies. I've hit a wall and need your support.
Thank you!
Michelle Kerr

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