I just spent about an hour writing a “Monday Memory” and when I clicked “publish” - it was lost. How did that happen? Is that something that happens very often with Wordpress?????? I didn’t click any wrong buttons or anything. It will be interesting to see if this message actually publishes. Crazy!
I am just thoroughly and wholeheartedly and furiously pissed about it!
Note: See! I spent about 30 second writing THIS post, and it worked perfectly. I did nothing different than what I did for the other one…and yet the other one is gone. Sigh! And it was such a GOOD Monday memory…. I don’t have the heart or time to write it again. Not now anyway
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March 27th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
Oh No!!!! How upsetting!!!! Does Wordpress have a “recover post” button like Blogger does? Surely you can get it back.
March 28th, 2006 at 9:15 am
This has happened to me occasionally in blogger, so I’ve learned to always click on “draft” to save it as I go along–at least if you lose a revision, it’s not like losing the whole wad. Also, for a real thinker like MM or TT, I start in word processing and then cut and paste. Saves a lot of grief.
March 28th, 2006 at 9:38 am
Good idea! I wrote the post about Monday Memories again yesterday — and had to leave suddenly to handle another matter - and lost it again. Oh well…maybe next Monday I’ll get up the courage to try again.
March 28th, 2006 at 12:37 pm
Not necessarily a WordPress issue; probably a problem on the host side. Since I use Opera, the few times it’s happened to me, I just “back-gesture” and copy the post from the post/edit page into a plain text editor (just to be sure), then simply repost it. That way, the “lost” post isn’t really lost, although the couple of times I had a problem, it did take more than two attempts to post and have it “stick”.
I do the same thing with MT blog comments, since I’ve sometimes had them hiccough and drop a comment… back, copy comment I’d attempted to post, repost comment until it “sticks”.
I know it’s kind of a kludge, but it works nicely for me.