WordPress recently modified its site. WARNING: the allegedly more streamlined automatic Draft Save feature has the potential to apparently totally WIPE OUT your work. My cursor hit something and, suddenly multiple paragraphs evaporated to one word and one letter. Panic stricken, I scrolled up to click on previously saved pages, but there was only a partial – which also evaporated as soon as I opened it.
The piece appeared to be GONE. No recently saved in browser. Nothing. I sent a help@wordpress.com demand that WordPress restore my piece in its entirety, threatening to leave the site – and, take my paid domain with me – if they did not.
Still in a frenzy, I went back to the last opened draft of the piece. In the left column, I scrolled down to Other Options. Under this category, there was a tab to search Revisions, and I noted 25 revisions. I clicked on that, found, and retrieved my most recent edit. Thank Providence – not WordPress. I’d just spent the past twenty minutes trying to rewrite the piece, from memory. Not fun.
BUT – WORDPRESS NEVER either NOTIFIED ME PRIOR TO THIS UPGRADE, nor GAVE ME A TUTORIAL TO HELP ME UNDERSTAND HOW TO SEARCH FOR REVISION HISTORY. BLAHHHHH!!!!!
Ruth Ann Scanzillo 11/22/15
littlebarefeetblog.com
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I have no idea how to find the revisions either in the new wysiwyg. I usually write my drafts in notepad or in notes and copy and paste. It’s easier. But I’ll try to find it. I think they’re trying to make it more sophisticated but it’s a 2 dimensional platform. Cubes or hexagons old flat on here.
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Couldn’t believe I actually found it, myself. It’s in the Edit page, left column, under Other Options (redundant). And, the click on is a tiny black font thing, with a spinner for how many revisions you have for the post.
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Okay. I’ve seen the spinner. I know how to find it. “Other options.” You have no other option but to put up with WordPress.
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Copy and paste has to be the way forward, anything online with web sites seems to be problematic. I don’t know what a cascading style sheet is, but I believe it was created by the dark side!
How did it go on Saturday? Was Michael Ludwig on form? How did it all go down, did you enjoy your night? Xx
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“on form”?? He was ASTOUNDING. Absolutely gorgeous, breathtaking Korngold! So gratifying!!!! Yes!! My part in the perf left me rarely rather content. Thanks, OF!
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Glad that your lost work problem was solved but am glad that that is not one of my problems in life. REW
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Hi, Ruthie ….Hope you got my emails.
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R.A. I think you accidentlly caught the CIA, NSA and FBI downloading a copy of your work! Did you use the word “Muslim” anywhere in this work?
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Is this you, Lenny? Sounds like you! And – no – I have no issue with Muslims, anywhere. Why are you Anonymous?
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I was too lazy to type in my name. I knew you would recognize me by my use of your name as: R.A.
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WAIT. In the draft of which we speak, as I referenced a certain Hungarian composer, I listed among his notable scores “The Thief of Baghdad.” So……you may be on to something. What happens, next?! ((OO))?
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