Last night I wrote a post that took about an hr. to complete. It was late at night. I got to doing something else on my computer. I decided to go to bed & shut down my computer. Guess what happened? I lost the post & that hr's work.
I'm dying to see an auto-save plugin that would automatically save a post in draft mode at user-selected intervals. I'd also like to see a feature that would ask you, if you attempt to close your browser before saving a post, whether you wanted to save or cancel such a post.
That doesn't sound like a bad idea for a plugin at all, I made exactly the same mistake of shutting my computer down and going to bed just last week.
Needless to say, my language was quite colorful when I woke up... ;)
Projectgo: YOu seem to be good humored about it now but I can imagine you weren't joking then!
Carthik Sharma (All Hail Carthik!) has just located an auto save plugin for me. Here's the link:
http://twilightuniverse.com/2005/04/twilight-autosave/
I've just installed it but haven't yet tested it by adding text to the post box & closing the tab w/o saving to see what happens. I'll be checking it out later tonight. Let me know if you try it & what you think.
Curious to hear how it works out. I personally have done the same thing a time or two. Not shutting down, but closing a multi-tabbed browser without remembering what I was up to...
Have since managed to get myself into the habit of frequently hitting "save and continue" to at least have the draft around.
I just tested the plugin out by typing some gibberish into the post box & deliberately closing the tab (I use Firefox). When I clicked the Write button to open the empty post box there was a msg. telling me I appear to have not saved my previous post. It asked if I wished to restore it or delete it.
Couldn't ask for more. As folks say in the comments at the plugin author's site, this should be a feature built into WP. There's even a note there saying that Matt planned to add it to WP 2.0. I guess that didn't happen. Too bad because if it will save me 10-20 hrs/yr. of rewriting lost posts just multiply that out by the number of other WP users who make the same mistakes that we do.
