I have been extremely impressed with WordPress since moving my blogs to WordPress several months ago. It is a true website, not just a blogging template. And there are a number of other reasons and benefits of having made the move. But that is the topic of another post!
One of the concerns I have had with moving more and more data to the cloud is having control over saving and restoring data (like WordPress blog posts). Once on Google Blogger after 70 minutes of work and saving frequently, I had a glitch and lost all of my work. I did not know if or how to restore my just previously saved version. My effort was lost and I had to retype my entire post.
But restoring a WordPress blog post is easy!
With WordPress, I had a glitch the other day that wiped out the content in my editor. My immediate reaction was similar to what I had experienced in BLogger and that “I was screwed!” Yet, I was able to easily and quickly find the means to restore the previous version (my complete blog post) from the minute before. How to do this depends on the theme used. For the Bueno theme, the revision history with time stamps is shown below the editor (see above image). I was able to go to the version saved one minute before (which comprised my completed post minus one small typo) and was able to restore that one to the Editor and save my work. This saved me an hour of effort! This is a very nice and easy to view and restore capability of the Bueno theme.
Not all themes provide this capability though. For my other blog and the default for all themes, you need to look in the upper right hand corner in the ‘Publish’ box. Once you have made two saves (or WordPress has auto-saved for you), you will see a line for ‘Revisions’ and the number of revisions made. Click on ‘Browse’ and WordPress will show you the contents of the last revision. You then have the option to restore that version if you like or to go back to the version before it (or any version for that matter). Therefore, if things somehow got really messed up, you can go back a few versions if you like.
If you ever have a glitch and lose your effort in the current editor, you can go back to a previous saved version and restore that. Quickly and easily restoring a WordPress blog post is a great feature to have! Blogger may have a similar capability, but if it does, it has not been intuitively easy to find.
Steve Shipley, author of Wine Sense, due out early 2014
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