Posts destroyed when logged out

  • conservationist

    (@conservationist)


    13 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    This has happened several times at random.

    I will be entering a post in WP, and when finished, hit submit.

    After that I am presented with a log in screen.

    When I log in, the post has vanished and only a prior version remains.

    Work is lost.

    Why is this happening?

    It happened once for an update and tonight, randomly.

    This is highly destructive.

    Is anyone aware of this?

    “Code is poetry” sounds good and all, but the best poetry is code that respects the user and does not delete their work thoughtlessly.

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  • geoffhanna

    (@geoffhanna)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    It sounds like the same thing that happens on my wordpress.mu site. When it happens to me, it is because my login has timed out.

    You shouldn’t time out while you are actively editing, but sometimes you do.

    I’ve adopted a strategy of selecting the entire post and copying it to the clipboard before I try to save it.

    That way I can always just Paste it back.

    Just in case.

    Thread Starter conservationist

    (@conservationist)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    Thank you for replying.

    This looks like something similar. It has now happened twice, and I’ve switched to a text editor.

    I find it amazing that WP’s developers choose to allow this to happen, when popping up a page saying “You have logged out, here’s your buffer to copy and paste” or even finding some way to pass the buffer until after login is not difficult to do.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    Have you tried:

    – deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

    – switching to the Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.

    – resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

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