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One more thing: For my workaround to work, you probably have to keep a separate copy of your HTML for the page and always work from that whenever you want to make any edits. After my last post, I clicked the ‘Update Page’ button to update the page after making another change, and although I did it on the HTML tab, the contents still disappeared. However, I noticed that the HTML was no longer exactly as I had pasted it from my backup copy (it had been neatly laid out, and now was less neat). So I guessed that what had happened was that when I opened the page editor, I happened to go first to the Visual tab, and when I switched to the HTML tab, it changed the contents in some way. I’m not sure what the change was, but it caused the problem to occur again. Certainly, I have found by experiment, that simply switching between tabs does seem to cause changes to be made to the code.

Anyway, I deleted the contents again, and pasted the code straight from my backup into the HTML tab, and made the change that way. And that seems to have fixed it.

Incidentally, just for interest, the page in question has no tables, lots of shortcodes (with divisions), and about 18 images.

I’m using WordPress 2.8.6 and I have had the same problem. But I think I may have found a solution – or at least, a workaround.

The Page Editor has two tabs – Visual and HTML. My workaround is just to stop using the Visual tab altogether. If you know HTML, you don’t actually need it. As long as I restrict myself entirely to the HTML tab, everything appears to work fine. I haven’t been using this solution for at all long yet, but I did do the following experiment which seems pretty conclusive to me:

I had kept a copy of the HTML (i.e. copied from the HTML tab) for a page which had been giving me a load of grief. I opened a test page, and pasted this HTML into the HTML tab. Then I pressed the ‘Update Page’ button 8 times in a row, with no problem.

Then I switched to the Visual tab and pressed the ‘Update Page’ button. The first time I pressed it, the content appeared to remain in place. However, when I pressed it a second time, the entire contents of the page disappeared.

I then repeated this exercise again, twice. Each time, the results were identical. I clicked ‘Update Page’ 8 times on the HTML tab with no problems. But when I switched to the Visual tab and started clicking the ‘Update Page’ button, the entire page contents disappear after the second click.