After losing a significant amount of writing work earlier tonight due to some WordPress bug (or maybe user error; who knows), I decided that all of my posts should be versioned.

I save my work constantly, so it’s dumb that accidentally saving a truncated post should wipe out hours and hours of work.

So I searched around on the internet and found the WordPress Versioning Plugin, which I downloaded and immediately installed.

Unfortunately, the plugin didn’t work.

So I’ve been tinkering around with it for a few hours, and I’ve fixed it.

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I don’t know if this has happened to anyone else…

I just finished writing a blog post that I’ve been working on for the last three days (total time writing and editing: about 3.5 hours).

As an afterthought, I decided to paste a funny image into the body of the post, so I uploaded the image using the controls on the ‘post.php’ page. After clicking on the thumbnail and choosing ‘Send to Editor’, the image was pasted into the text, and I published the article.

I was redirected to the publicly-viewable page containing the new article, only to discover that the last 75% of the text in my message had completely disappeared.

Ugh.

I tried clicking the BACK button in FireFox to retrieve any previous version of my post, but despite FireFox’s current memory consumption (236,340 KB of RAM, ostensibly used for caching of pages in the HISTORY), all of the historic versions of my post had been replaced with the new truncated version.

Shit.

Now there’s nothing left for me to do but re-write.

Maybe I’ll get to it tomorrow. Maybe not.

In the mean time, I think I’ll install the WordPress Versioning Plugin, so that in the future, when this inevitably happens again, I can just perform a rollback.