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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.

  1. CHECK the box that asks you to disable the visual editor.
  2. Save/Update changes.
  3. UNcheck the box.
  4. Save/Update changes.

You should now be able to go back and compose and save a draft using the visual tab.

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One Response

  1. Ryan says:

    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!

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