Lost posts: Found on the Help Pages today

and yes, I realize this would have been more useful 2 months ago, but the most stressful part of the semester is . . . probably about now, so for what it's worth . . .

Can I recover a lost post?

Sometimes, due to circumstances beyond your control, your post may seem to vanish into thin air. The Internet is a dangerous place: browsers can crash, network connections can go down just when you click "Publish," or you may just accidentally move on to a new page without realizing you had an unfinished post left behind you.

Luckily, we've got a nifty little feature that can save you from a lot of these cases. Periodically, as you write a post, the text of your post will get saved to a cookie on your browser. That way, even if something crashes, you may still be able to get your text back. Just go back to the posting form and look for the "Recover post" link:

Click that link, and anything that was saved in the browser's cookie will be filled into the posting form. You're saved!

Notes:

• This feature is not guaranteed to work every time you lose a post, but it's always worth a shot.
• You'll need to be logged in to the same blog that lost the post, and on the same browser, in order for this to work.
• Only up to about 3k worth of text can be recovered, so parts of longer posts may still be lost. This limit should be enough for most average blog posts, though.
• Don't type anything new in the posting form before trying to recover or that new text may overwrite your old cookie.