A Blog Tip: Save Your Post and Continue Editing.
I made a blog tips category so I guess I will offer a tip! No one said it would have to be technical… As you are creating a post, be sure to save your progress along the way. If you create lengthy posts like I do sometimes, and like Vex does all the time! LOL!!! Sorry Vex, had to put that in there… its a good idea to get in the habit of using the save, or if you use WordPress they have a Save and Continue Editing button which allows you to quickly save your post content and continue writing it. A lengthy post can take time to create, searching for references on the net and linking them up into your post… saving pictures, etc… by the time you are ready to push the send or publish button, 30 minutes or longer could have passed by from the time you initially started working on the post. Sometimes you can loose your Internet connection and not realize it, it can be possible that whatever system you are writing on could have logged you out, etc.. etc.. There have been a few times where this has happened to me and I completely loose my work… you can’t push the back button, you can’t refresh….. you post is gone! So… again, my blog tip today… for the week… whatever, is: Save Your Post and Continue Editing!
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July 13th, 2006 at 9:30 pm
I just do it the old fashioned way - I use CTRL A C frequently.
Save and continue can still cost you the portion of your writing you’ve created since the last time you saved & continued.
July 13th, 2006 at 9:43 pm
Yes Yes Yes…. Indeed!! Very very good point and very over looked… you can save and continue and be subjected equally to the chance of losing your data just as you would if you just waited… finishing the post and clicking send.
Agreed doing a copy to Windows clip board is probably the best option…
July 14th, 2006 at 7:08 am
I use Wordpress’s Save feature a lot, right now I have about 3 posts that I’m working on that’s saved up. I haven’t had any trouble losing my information, I just save so I can work on it later.
July 14th, 2006 at 11:15 am
I wish Wordpress had Auto save feature like Google Mail
July 14th, 2006 at 11:16 am
This is why I work on my posts in a Word Processor and then copy, paste and format before saving. Spellchecking is nice too.
July 14th, 2006 at 3:04 pm
> Thilak said: I wish Wordpress had Auto save feature like Google Mail
No doubt that would really be cool. Actually I wonder if there is already a plugin for something like that?
> Shawna said: This is why I work on my posts in a Word Processor and then copy, paste and format before saving. Spellchecking is nice too.
That isn’t a bad idea either… especially if you want to simple copy straight html code into a post for a rich and graphical post with images, links, etc…
July 14th, 2006 at 11:18 pm
This is so frustrating when it happens…3 times for me before I wisened up to it. I do what Shawna says (upon the advice of my son). I’m really “green” and don’t know how to do much (anything!). So I was really ticked off when I lost a post that I really invested a lot of time and thought into. I also tend to save a lot if I do use a WP route.
July 19th, 2006 at 7:59 am
[...] Save Your Post and Continue Later I’m most familiar with Wordpress and Wordpress has a nice feature that you can Save your posts and come back to them at a later time. I always try to make my posts interesting and well-thought out and often times it takes me a while to get to a point where I feel it’s ready to be published, so I save them constantly. I would imagine that other blogging software has a similar feature and if you take a while to finish an article, then you would be wise to use it. [...]
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