WordPress is my favorite place to share my thoughts above all other thoughts platforms. For 5 amazing months WordPress has allowed me to share my voice and create fun content with relative ease and the smallest of glitches.
However, I was just almost done writing a long awaited tag post when, my app froze and glitched out, deleting the content completely. To which I precided to feel these sets of emotions:
Tried to bargain for a non-existent way of fixing the problem:
Depression:
Acceptance:
I was and still am sitting on my IKEA chair thinking about what to do. Do I redo the post? Do I do a different one? What should I do next?
An idea struck!
Then I decided it might be interesting to write this little post, because I wasn’t happy about losing 40 minute of work to do it over again without sharing the sad experience with you all!
So, I ask of you… has anything like this ever happened using WordPress? Have you ever lost any content or had any issues with the WordPress app? I need to feel some solidarity from this emotional rollercoaster. It was just a whole lot of panicked sadness.
When you take so much time to work on something just to have it disappear feels awful. As much as I love WordPress this has been such a sad experience. I may be sad, but I will write and post the disappeared post tomorrow. There is a tag to look forward to! I hope you all will enjoy it!
-Till next time!
The Book Raven 
I’m so sorry this happened to you Tiana. I learned after a couple of times that this happened to me that it’s better to save your post ever four or five sentences.
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Oh my goodness! I’m sorry this has happened to you too! It had not happened to me before and I am sad to hear that this is a common occurrence. I’m definitely going to be saving where I am at more often!
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That’s terrible, Ti!! One thing that I noticed using the WordPress app is that it saves the draft you create on one device and when you log in from another device, it isn’t visible. Personally, I hate this issue because, as a person, I use a lot of devices on the go to produce my blogposts and having your drafts not saved up for different devices is just absolutely crappy. (Excuse my language) That’s probably the only thing you can call a ‘glitch’ that I have experienced when using WordPress. 🙈
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I’ve experienced that too, but not as often. Usually I will refresh my page and the draft will appear, but when it doesn’t it really is crappy. Just one of those little things that can be frustrating as a blogger
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IKR. IT DRAINS ALL OF MY PATIENCE. 😐
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WordPress is such a beautiful and frustrating place sometimes.. I don’t know what to do with it at times. 😭🙃
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I haven’t had any problems with WordPress and I debated with myself about posting it here; I don’t want to jinx it!😂
But WordPress did change its New Post style recently and the very first day, there were some problems. They fixed it soon, though! I’m sorry you lost your content. I’m sure it would’ve been amazing, as usual!😊
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I’m happy to here you haven’t had any problems and I hope you never have to experience them! Thank you for the lovely comment. I wish I could’ve posted the tag today but I will definitely have it out tomorrow!
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Yes, it has happened to me before. I lost a whole chapter of my story, and to this day I still don’t know what happened =(
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Aww that’s even worse
I’m so sorry you lost part of your story. I’ve lost chapters before too by accidentally deleting them or having them not save and it’s terrible. My heart goes out to you!
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I’m so sorry this happened to you too, Tiana. I deleted the app from my phone when it happened because of the frustration 😂 from that day I keep pressing save every few minutes, just in case.
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It seems like I’m going to have to be pressing save a lot more. I’m sorry this has happened to you as well. It seems to be a pretty common problem. 😦 it really sucks.
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I spend so long going back over posts and editing them that I just don’t trust WordPress to keep them saved so I always write mine in Microsoft Word and then paste them across. I don’t really like the format of writing posts on WordPress as well so this way just works better for me!
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That’s a very interesting idea. Do images paste over as well? I use so many images that it would only really help out if it did that.
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I never put my images into the Word documents, I copy and paste the text across and then import the images into WordPress directly so I’m not sure on that!
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Ohh I see, that’s one way to do it!
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I might try that out and see how it goes!
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Agh, this sounds horrible! I haven’t had this happen to me (not that I can think of…) but this happens a lot when I’m making graphics in PicMonkey. And I just spent like the last thirty minutes doing it. *inhales* *never exhales*
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😦 it’s really sad when you spend so much time on something only to have it disappear. With graphics that is even worse. I’m sorry that has happened to you more then once.
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OMG this happened to me this morning! Then, when I was reading new posts on other people’s blogs, the space to leave a comment was just gone. Finally an hour later I can leave comments again. So frustrating!
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Oh my goodness I know that feeling. Sometimes I can’t leave likes on anyone’s posts and they disappear and it’s so frustrating. I’m sorry that happened to you this morning it’s really awful. 😦
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Ok so the like button going missing has happened to other people? That makes me feel better! I thought I was going crazy over the last few weeks LOL!
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Omg I almost wrote a post about this too, because the app glitches SO constantly! My notifications arrive on my lock screen, but when I go to the actual app, they aren’t there because the thing never updates. This is probably because it always says it’s offline, even though I have wifi/service?? I don’t know, but they need to give it a major update it soon! 😉
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It’s really sucky that it glitches like that and in so many different ways. They really do need to do a major update to fix all these issues. It would make everything so much smoother.
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Yup. When it actually does work (on those rare occasions) it’s really helpful though!
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It really is! It didn’t glitch at all when I first started, but for some reason as I went along things got worse and worse. Although I still would say it is extremely helpful.
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Oh, that’s the worst! I love WordPress in general, but you already know about some of my recent frustrations with it. 🙂
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Yeah your issue with it was really weird as well. Idk why it glitches like it does. It really needs an overhaul to fix all these issues, otherwise the site will forever be frustrating for us bloggers.
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Agreed. *Sighs* I need to go through all the blogs I thought I was still following and make sure they haven’t been magically unfollowed as well.
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Yeah, that glitch doesn’t even make sense. I hope you get to sort everything out.
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Me too! I’m so frustrated. Also when I try to save on the website now, I can’t unless I schedule it to publish. Are you having that same problem too?
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I haven’t noticed that issue. That’s a weird one as well… I don’t know why it would do that
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Me either. I wonder if I’m having problems because I just use the website and haven’t downloaded it onto my computer. I have a mac, and doing that practically requires a degree in computer science.
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You’re not alone it happened with me too! Really frustrated the hell out of me and from then on I stopped posting from the app.
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My issue is that it’s the only way I can really post when I need to. I’m hoping that I can find a solution, but if I can’t I’m going to be screwed.
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That’s too bad, I hope you can find a solution to it soon!
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How frustrating!!!
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That’s exactly what I’d say about it.. frustrating.
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This hasn’t happened to me on WordPress, but another blogging site I was using it used to happen a bit and the frustration is incredible… so I feel you’re pain. I hope it doesn’t happen too many times, or you know never again! 🙂
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