Have you ever hit the “post” button and seen your site go “kablooie”? Perhaps your server goes down and you get a 403 error, or the SQL is really slow to respond, and you get kicked to your main site with the message “what you are looking for is not found”. Or some other issue. Maybe Firefox crashes. Or, you didn’t notice that some sort of auto update was going to force a restart.
Well, whatever the reason, if it is a big post, or, something you are really proud of, click HTML tab in WordPress (or however you get to HTML in your program), and copy! Don’t depend on it being automatically saved and put into draft mode. Maybe it didn’t. Maybe you were logged out due to an expiring cookie and only half was saved. Don’t take the chances. Personally, when I put together most of my Sunday Patriotic Pinup post, I always copy and paste into a text file before hitting Save Draft (I usually do this Saturday night), and do the same when I am done and about to hit Publish on Sunday morning. Be safe. Like most bloggers, I’ve lost some posts, and I guarantee, when it happens to you, it will be one of the best you ever wrote. Or something with a ton of links that took a long time to put together.
Speaking of blog tips, Ink Rebels, which has some pretty good pro-tips, offers up 10 Ways To Overcome Blog Procrastination, which would be in the Super! category, if only it wasn’t the last post posted on 10/29/10.
