My posts are getting swallowed up by WordPress

By • December 28, 2007 • 9 Comments

Over the past few days, I have written two posts on two different WordPress self-hosted blogs that have disappeared when I pressed save. I couldn’t retrieve them.

I wrote one of the posts straight in WordPress’ text editor, and the other one I wrote in Windows Live Writer. You would think I could go back and get the post written in Live Writer, but once I uploaded the post from Windows Live Writer to WordPress and saved it there, the local Live Writer version became connected to my online version, so that when I tried to view the draft in Windows Live Writer, I got the online blank version.

Has anyone had this happen to them? Anyone know how this can be fixed?

Author:

Joe Cheng [MSFT]

Try finding the .wpost files you want in My Documents\My Weblog Posts\Recent Posts, and move them to the My Weblog Posts\Drafts folder. I believe that should stop Writer from polling the server when you open the draft.
Miriam Schwab

Joe! You are a beautiful beautiful man (and not the obscure programming nerd you say you are on your site)! I did as you said, and the text that I had written in WLW was still there! As you can see by all the exclamation marks, I am extremely happy!

Thank you so much, and you have given me yet another reason to try to make sure all my posts are written with Live Writer.
Ryan

I just write my comments in a text editor, then copy and paste them over. I haven’t heard of this Live Writer though so I’d better take a look.

Nice little toolbar thingy you have on the comments box now (~~aplogies for testing it!~~). The HTML button is interesting, I’ll try to break your site with it in a minute – well, maybe slightly. Hopefully it limits what I can put in there to stop me really messing up your layout!
Ryan

Trying to break Miriams fancy new comments thingamabob. Hopefully this doesn’t work! It shouldn’t look too bad though, should just poke my site logo out across the screen.
Julian Johannesen

yeah! this toolbar thingy is cool! how’d you do it?
Miriam Schwab

Ryan – your attempt to break my new comments thingy were unsuccessful. What were you trying to do?

Ryan and Julian – you wanna know how I added this cool comments thingy? Stay tuned for tomorrow’s post to get the whole scoop. Yes, I am shamelessly holding you hostage.
Ryan

It wasn’t quite this big and I didn’t align it to the top of the page, but this is what I was trying to check that you couldn’t do with it …<a href="position:absolute;left:0;top:0;http://ryanhellyer.net/" style="background: url(‘http://ryanhellyer.net/wp-content/themes/hellishsimplicity/images/header.png’); width:1000px; height:1000px;"> </a>
… so that would have covered your entire screen with a series of logos all linked back to my site.
Miriam Schwab

Ryan – it didn’t work because it changed all brackets etc. into that funny code like < instead of <. Too bad, since I would have loved to have my site plastered with your logo. (sarcasm)
Ryan

I don’t think so, AFAIK it just deleted it when I clicked update in HTML mode. I converted the code above so that you could see it rather than it being deleted like last time.

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