Dec 15, 2009
Wordpress: Post Disappears When Saving a Draft
Scenario: You are writing a post and hit the save draft button. The page goes through the save process, reloads, and your title is there but the post disappeared.
Solution: When composing a post see if the HTML tab is selected or the visual tab. When this happened to me, it looked like I was in the visual editor but the HTML tab was selected and I could not access the visual tab.
Then go to your user profile in the admin panel.
- CHECK the box that asks you to disable the visual editor.
- Save/Update changes.
- UNcheck the box.
- Save/Update changes.
You should now be able to go back and compose and save a draft using the visual tab.




Thanks for this workaround. I will try it ASAP. I have recently lost two posts becuase of this error. I frequently go between visual editor and html view.
I guess I will not be able to use the visual editor anymore, but its better than losing hours of work.
Have you had any luck reporting this to wp.org?
Thanks!