Hard Lesson Learned
I got to learn a hard lesson on using site content yesterday. Would like everyone to learn from my mistake. I had started a new post using site content, I had the title, intro and the headers, it was getting late and I had to be up early for work, so I thought I would save my work and finish it the following day. The next day came and I went and finished my post, almost 2,600 words, did my spell check then went to hit the publish button. To my dimay it didn't say publish, instead it said 'published edit here". So apperentaly the nite before I had clicked publish instead of save. When I clicked the published button all that showed was what I had done the night before with now way for me to add my new conntent. Luckfully with some help from Erica Crystal in the wsebsite development and programing we were able to find a fix.
What I had to do was delete the old post from the dashboard and start a new one, then copy and paste what I had writen in site content to the new post in the dashboard area. Now when I have to do any editing to the post it has to be done from the dashboard because the post in site content has nothing to connect to in the dashboard.
So always remember when using site content to make sure you hit the save but until you finish your post. I don't want to see anybody go through what I went through, thinking I was going to loss a 2,600 word post.
Thank you again to Erica for all your help.
Recent Comments
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A good warning... glad you managed to get your content back without losing it. Scary!
Shaunna
Robert thanks for the warning, I am glad it worked out in the end for you. I don't think I would have enough tears to cry the river it would take to get over losing a 2600 word post.
Mary
That’s a sick feeling when you find out you may have lost all that work. It’s NEVER the same article when you have to write something again. So glad you salvaged all that effiort. Keep up the super work. Tim
Lucky you got it back Robert and yes SAVE is the button aright - Hope you find some good weather for you and your wife to go for a rife this weekend :)
Love Harleys!!!
Vicki
I just went through something similar last week which delayed my second post because it completely killed my motivation. Only difference is I didn't hit the publish button, I hit the save button and apparently nothing saved!
Don't just hit the save button, copy and paste what you worked on into Word or whatever as a back up as well in case it fails to save.
Luckily, my first post got indexed by Google which gave me a boost of motivation to complete and publish my second post! =) Now it's published, yay! Time to work on the third...