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Posted: Friday, August 11th, 2006 at 7:35 pm. Filed in New Features, WordPress, WordPress.com.

Automatically Save Your Drafts

by Ryan

Thanks to Robert Deaton, WordPress and WordPress.com now have an autosave feature. While you are working on a draft, your edits are automatically saved every minute. All of this happens in the background; you won’t even notice it except for a small notification message next to the Save button. If your browser crashes while you are editing, simply go back to your Manage page and click on the title of your draft. It will be there waiting for you.

Autosave Screenshot

92 Comments to “Automatically Save Your Drafts”

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  1. vjp
    August 11th, 2006 at 7:45 pm

    Cool!

  2. Yaser
    August 11th, 2006 at 7:50 pm

    Thank you once again.

  3. afrodisiax
    August 11th, 2006 at 7:54 pm

    I’m working with Mozilla Firefox and here this autosave always throws me back to beginning of my text, when it autosaves. It’s quite boring to scroll back to the end to continue writing.

    But anyway, this autosave is good idea. Really:)

  4. oinky
    August 11th, 2006 at 8:01 pm

    How thoughtful!
    Thanks WordPress!

  5. MadMark
    August 11th, 2006 at 8:01 pm

    This is another great free feature!!! Thank you very much!!

  6. dresramblings
    August 11th, 2006 at 8:22 pm

    I had an issue similar to afrodisiax using Firefox’s new beta version. Though it only happened occasionally. But this has been a great new feature, especially when you have system crashes on PCs. I’ve lost a few posts that way early on and had started using a word processing program to write them. Maybe I don’t have to anymore :)

    Thanks guys!

  7. avuee
    August 11th, 2006 at 8:32 pm

    thankx.

  8. kapeka
    August 11th, 2006 at 8:38 pm

    I hope this will be implemented in a future version of WordPress (2.1?). I have been waiting for this feature. I lost some posts, sometimes very long posts, because I forgot to save and suddenly something happend and everything got lost. This is very demotivating.
    So this is a great new feature and I hope I will see it in the standalone WordPress soon!

    greets

  9. kapeka
    August 11th, 2006 at 8:38 pm

    Oh, I have read too quickly. Now I have seen that this is in the WordPress trunk already. Thanks!

  10. apinakapina
    August 11th, 2006 at 8:52 pm

    Same problem with Firefox as afrodisiax.
    Really frustrating. And if you don´t check what you are writing, you get really bad rep as a writer very soon.

  11. taoist
    August 11th, 2006 at 8:55 pm

    I’d have to agree with afrodisiax: getting thrown back to the beginning of the post every minute or so is a bit annoying. The other thing that’s been a bit disruptive is that every time I complete a post the second to last version of my post that was autosaved doesn’t get removed from my drafts automatically.

    Autosave is great, but it’d be nice if you could iron out these last little bugs.

  12. Christian
    August 11th, 2006 at 8:55 pm

    good as always … you guys rock!

  13. neok
    August 11th, 2006 at 8:56 pm

    Great free feature!

  14. Livia
    August 11th, 2006 at 9:18 pm

    THANKS!

  15. Brent
    August 11th, 2006 at 9:20 pm

    It’s buggy. I was wondering why I had lost a bit of what I was writing last night, and I knew that something was going on.

    I love the idea though, and I have suggested this in the feedback a while back. Hopefully, it will not give any problems, in the future.

    Like afrodisiax said, it throws you back to the beginning of the entire text, which can be confusing imho.

    I am confident that the bugs will be worked out. Autosave seems like a great feature. I have lost an entire article before, due to lack of this feature, and my own boneheadedness.

  16. nancyfolsom
    August 11th, 2006 at 9:29 pm

    So, *that’s* what’s messing up my writing. Great idea, and your hearts are in the right place, really, but as afrodisiax says, it’s disconcerting at best to have the cursor position change. It would be nice to have the option to turn this off, or to specify the frequency.

  17. Tina
    August 11th, 2006 at 9:33 pm

    Awesome! This saves me a lot of hassle of clicking the “save and continue” button all the time, and then wait for the page to load again.

  18. ryan
    August 11th, 2006 at 9:42 pm

    The cursor reset bug was fixed before we announced. If you had problems before, try it again.

  19. theleftbank
    August 11th, 2006 at 9:56 pm

    This was a lifesaver for me earlier, thanks!

  20. lotaenterprises
    August 11th, 2006 at 10:06 pm

    i was also experiencing the cursor reset, but sans bug, its a great idea!! thanks!

  21. Steve
    August 11th, 2006 at 10:27 pm

    When you post, there’s still a draft copy left. There needs to be a way to ‘Delete All Draft Posts’. Apart from that, it’s a great idea.

  22. taraden
    August 11th, 2006 at 10:30 pm

    That is sweet! Thank you! :D

  23. blayde
    August 11th, 2006 at 10:43 pm

    wow, neat stuff. thanks lots

  24. eclecticgeek
    August 11th, 2006 at 10:52 pm

    I use Firefox and didn’t notice the cursor problem. This is a great feature for me because sometimes my computer has a “mind of its own” and will crash when I try to save. I am so happy with WP (sniff, sniff). Thanks for another great feature.

  25. ryan
    August 11th, 2006 at 11:13 pm

    Steve, the extra draft bug should be fixed too.

  26. Bradley
    August 11th, 2006 at 11:20 pm

    This is most excellent. Just lost a post the other day because I hit the stupid back button.

  27. Brent
    August 11th, 2006 at 11:26 pm

    Cool Ryan, it seems to be working fine now. And to my delight, this also works with writing pages, as well as with writing posts.

    Excellent –must-needed feature!

    Great work! :cool:

  28. Insider Insider
    August 11th, 2006 at 11:34 pm

    Noticed the extra draft bug and the get back home bug earlier this afternoon – both have now gone. This is a very good feature indeed, thank you.

  29. .i dream in red.
    August 11th, 2006 at 11:55 pm

    awesome

  30. Larko
    August 12th, 2006 at 12:44 am

    The problem my good friend afrodisiax and others are experiencing can be adressed (untill the bug will be fixed, that is) by writing your post in an external text editor, such as Notebook, and copy/pasting the text when you are ready.

    I did not notice this feature and ended up having a double post as I kept manually clicking to the “Save and continue editing” button like I am used to. Now that there is no need for that, I suppose I am not going to see those double posts either.

    A nice feature. Thank you. :-)

  31. Pamela
    August 12th, 2006 at 12:54 am

    Excellent!

  32. Matt
    August 12th, 2006 at 1:04 am

    The bugs should already be fixed.

    If they aren’t, send a feedback, don’t leave a comment.

    If you leave a comment the right people might not see it and we don’t have enviroment debug info to help us track down the bug. Use feedbacks, please.

  33. uptownflavor
    August 12th, 2006 at 1:08 am

    Cool…I thought it was a glitch when I kept thinking that my posts were being lost. Does it work equally as well in IE and Firefox? I think I was having bugs while browsing in IE. Thought it was a browswer issue.

  34. spark
    August 12th, 2006 at 1:16 am

    wow. another of those great features you people come up with! kudos to you!

  35. Zack
    August 12th, 2006 at 1:53 am

    This is an awesome feature…

    -Zack

  36. Tom
    August 12th, 2006 at 2:03 am

    Great! I had the same problem with the cursor last night before you announced it and left some feedback. All fixed now though. Thanks!

  37. talkislam
    August 12th, 2006 at 2:24 am

    Weeeeeee!

    No seriously.

  38. Katrina
    August 12th, 2006 at 2:30 am

    YES!!!!! No more trying “long post-and-the-browser-crashes” moments!

    YEAH!

    Thanks a lot, guys!

  39. Denis C
    August 12th, 2006 at 2:52 am

    Nice! Good job guys!

  40. pk
    August 12th, 2006 at 3:15 am

    Wonderful boys. I like people that constantly try to emprove. Thank’s for this new function

  41. ☆*°^` Rainbow
    August 12th, 2006 at 3:23 am

    this is great! :D

  42. Destiny
    August 12th, 2006 at 3:26 am

    great, i’ve had that problem earlier with firefox, too many extensions XD

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  44. ninglun
    August 12th, 2006 at 6:16 am

    Brilliant! Thanks.

  45. Qwerty Maniac
    August 12th, 2006 at 6:19 am

    Thats one awesome feature you’ve added, hopefully no more lost post cries now on! :D

  46. Thomas
    August 12th, 2006 at 6:38 am

    Yeah, I like it ;-) .

  47. Marco mkc
    August 12th, 2006 at 6:54 am

    Thanks… Gmail docet ;-)
    mkc

  48. Rakesh
    August 12th, 2006 at 7:06 am

    Thanks

  49. Cem Basman
    August 12th, 2006 at 7:28 am

    But if you publish right away from your editor additionally the draft is still there … That’s not nice :(

  50. Fredi
    August 12th, 2006 at 7:33 am

    Yeah!!

  51. parafonos
    August 12th, 2006 at 8:48 am

    This is perfect… I wish you had that few weeks ago…

    If you can find a Greek Spelling solutions :) i will be in love again and again …

  52. Ujwala
    August 12th, 2006 at 8:50 am

    having lost a few posts because of using beta versions of browsers I must say that this change is much appreciated.

  53. parafonos
    August 12th, 2006 at 8:53 am

    Perfect !!!! i wish i had it earlier

  54. Fay
    August 12th, 2006 at 9:32 am

    This is great! Thanks!

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  56. norbijúzer
    August 12th, 2006 at 11:46 am

    I’ve been waiting for soooo long for this feature! Thanks guys!

  57. darki
    August 12th, 2006 at 12:00 pm

    yeeees :)

  58. realtebo
    August 12th, 2006 at 10:33 pm

    please, let’s it will be optional !

    when you automatic save my post and THEN i publish the post, the system KEEP the draft, so i MUST DELETE EVERY DRAFT published yet manually. this is not a good thing.

  59. marcoss
    August 12th, 2006 at 10:54 pm

    Thanks!

  60. allansiew
    August 13th, 2006 at 6:05 am

    It have improved greatly… Thanks! Great service.

  61. tawnygirl
    August 13th, 2006 at 7:11 am

    I love this, thanks! I use FF and haven’t had any issues with this function at all, including the drafts, I have none, just the way I like it!

    Would it be wrong to ask if there’s a plugin we can use on our own installs, this function is so very needed on all my blogs! LOL

  62. Carpus
    August 13th, 2006 at 3:11 pm

    Similar issue to afrodisiax, but I wasn’t using firefox. I was using Explorer and had the browser open in the background because I was writing in between doing other things. The problem was that everytime it autosaved, it automatically pulled the Explorer window to the front, taking me away from what I was working on. Very inconvenient. Nice idea, though. Keep working on it.

  63. taoist
    August 13th, 2006 at 5:18 pm

    The two bugs I mentioned, Drafts and cursor resetting are indeed fixed for me. Great work guys!

  64. kairos
    August 13th, 2006 at 9:04 pm

    cool, thanx!

  65. The Robot
    August 13th, 2006 at 10:29 pm

    Great,i’ve been expecting for this feature a long time.

    Thanks wordpress people!

  66. 0nkulis
    August 14th, 2006 at 7:53 am

    thanks

  67. sirventes
    August 14th, 2006 at 8:36 am

    Great idea. I had the mentioned bug of coming back to the beginning but this was fixed really quick. So great for the idea, great for the speed at fixing (and replying to the feedback).

  68. PeterPan
    August 14th, 2006 at 9:48 am

    Hi Folks..

    i had a problem yesterday as i wanted to publish a post. I have got a never seen WordPress-transmission-page. in this i had to confirm “Do you really want to edit “_” ” Yes/No. I pressed “Yes” but nothing happend. Just my post was gone! I had to type it again.

    I solved it by testing “Save and Continue”. After this i could publish it.

    Another thing is: If i have got two WordPress-Websites open as i am logged in and i am typing an post, the “Saving-Process” changes automatically thes Website back to the Postediting-Site.

    I hope this little Problems will just disappear – somehow somewhere.

    Best Regards
    PeterPan

  69. Chittaranjan
    August 14th, 2006 at 12:00 pm

    Wowee! I must’ave lost somewhere around a dozen posts just beacuse this feature wasn’t there ( And yes! also coz of an errant power supply!!)

    thanks for this Guys!

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  71. realtebo
    August 14th, 2006 at 9:53 pm

    Great !

    You have fixed he bugs very fast ! Great, great, great !

  72. learningnerd
    August 15th, 2006 at 1:28 am

    Great idea, but I do find it a bit annoying when it jumps further up on the page when I’m looking at the post preview on the bottom. And since I look at other websites while working on my posts, the WordPress page pops in front every minute — also somewhat annoying. Is there any fix for that or should I stick to writing my posts in a text editor and pasting them into WordPress?

  73. riptide
    August 15th, 2006 at 11:32 am

    This came in handy this weekend. Thanks… Keep them coming

  74. rizahnst
    August 15th, 2006 at 1:11 pm

    it work for me!, good work ;)

  75. dhreno
    August 15th, 2006 at 3:38 pm

    How about making it optional until you work the bugs out (see 72. learningnerd above). Thanks and keep up the good work!

  76. Gomarus
    August 15th, 2006 at 9:37 pm

    Ditto to the annoying element mentioned by learningnerd in post 72.

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  78. Jolie
    August 16th, 2006 at 2:40 am

    I noticed that it doesn’t automatically save with Flock. It did before but it’s not now.

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  80. GMMan
    August 17th, 2006 at 1:36 am

    Wow! That’s cool! Now I don’t have to worry about my browser doing weird things while I’m away or when my power goes off (too frequently).

  81. justarticles
    August 17th, 2006 at 8:41 pm

    Another classic by wordpress. This is coming in very handy.

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  83. timethief
    August 21st, 2006 at 10:52 pm

    I’m dropping by to say that I have fouund the addition of this feature to be very useful. Thanks for providing it. :)

  84. gareth1989fgd
    August 23rd, 2006 at 12:03 pm

    Life savers! :D Thanks, awesome addon.

  85. Kristine
    August 24th, 2006 at 7:10 pm

    Muchos gracias!

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  87. brijwhiz
    August 26th, 2006 at 2:49 pm

    Thanks mates

  88. patam
    August 26th, 2006 at 11:41 pm

    oh thanks a lot! :D

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  90. Champ des Reves
    September 1st, 2006 at 2:31 am

    Any thought yet to making this feature optional? Bill Gates and Microsoft already have me well-trained to save, save, save my drafts. I think your autosave works better than the Google Page Creator autosave, for what that’s worth.

  91. Cyrus Poncha
    September 6th, 2006 at 2:42 pm

    I find that after this was operational, sometimes when i publish my posts the title and the tags get saved and published, but my matter does not. Anything Im doing wrong???

    I now copy the text into the clipboard and edit the post and past the text

  92. Trevor
    December 22nd, 2006 at 12:54 pm

    Does this need to be switched on somewhere ?

    Or does it only work if you have actually clicked ’save’ at some point when preparing a new post?

    I just lost a LONG post because another link opened in the WP browser window – no worries I thought, autosave will have kept it, but no! Argghhhh!!!!!

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