Accidentally navigated away from post

  • Hi,

    I accidentally navigated away from my post literally RIGHT before I was going to publish it. I really don’t want to have to rewrite it, as I was really happy with it, and it took almost two hours. I tried searching the forums here for a fix, but I’m new to wordpress, and my search yielded over 1,000 posts. I did find one that suggested going to the phpMyAdmin and finding evidence of the post. I *think* I did that, but I don’t know what to do from here. If this is really my post at all. HELP???

    Veronica

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Sometimes, clicking the back button can get you back to the content. Sometimes. If WP did an autosave, you should find that under posts->All Posts and look at Drafts. (Or under Pages, if you were working on a page.)

    Thread Starter vjwylie

    (@vjwylie)

    I tried clicking back, but it didn’t work. And when I went to All Posts, there’s nothing under Drafts. Does that mean it’s gone? I can’t restore it from phpMyAdmin?

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    It’s gone. If you find some content in the database, copy/paste it into a new post — don’t try to do any fancy database manipulation. You’re more likely to trash your site than recover anything if you do.

    Thread Starter vjwylie

    (@vjwylie)

    Damn, really? Even though I found a thing that looks like it could be the post? Where would I look to find any content? Even if I can just copy and paste half of it, that would save me having to do the whole thing over. I thought WordPress autosaves?

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    WordPress does auto-save and should put the stuff in a draft. If you were editing an existing post, however, you’ll see “there is a newer, autosaved version” when you go to edit that post again. You can click that to recover the autosave.

    Thread Starter vjwylie

    (@vjwylie)

    I was writing a new post, but I don’t see any unpublished drafts anywhere.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Then it’s gone…

    Thread Starter vjwylie

    (@vjwylie)

    ::deep breath:: How do I set up auto-save so this doesn’t happen again?

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    It’s automatic. But never count on it… it seems to work best when you have nothing to lose. ??

    Thread Starter vjwylie

    (@vjwylie)

    Well, looks like I’m never writing a new post in WordPress again. I’ll just import from elsewhere.

    UGH. Thanks for your time.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    As with any software, save early and save often.

    Thread Starter vjwylie

    (@vjwylie)

    I have other software that auto-saves every few seconds. I’ll just use that. Thanks though.

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