Title: Posts destroyed when logged out
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Posts destroyed when logged out

 *  [conservationist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/conservationist/)
 * (@conservationist)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-destroyed-when-logged-out/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geoffhanna/)
 * (@geoffhanna)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-destroyed-when-logged-out/#post-2925718)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/conservationist/)
 * (@conservationist)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-destroyed-when-logged-out/#post-2925720)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-destroyed-when-logged-out/#post-2925721)
 * 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](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F)
   by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause
   problems.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-destroyed-when-logged-out/#post-2925721)
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