It appears as if you have partially solved the problem yourself. You have tracked it down to Mudbomb’s WYSIWYG WordPress Plugin. But it might not be that plugin but the way it interacts with other plugins that may attach themselves to the Write Post panel like a tagging, keywords, or spell check plugin. They could be clashing.

The first thing to do is contact the plugin author. Do not upgrade until this problem is solved. It’s good that you know you have the latest previous stable version, so keep it that way until the problem is fixed.

The second thing is to go through your plugins and turn them off one by one to see if they impact your draft content. Turn one off, go to the Manage or Write Post panel and click on a draft. If the content is there, you may have found the co-conspirator. If it isn’t, then go back to the Plugins panel and turn the plugin back on and go to the next.

I personally can’t stand WYSIWYG, though I have to admit that the new one with WordPress 2.0 is nicer, they still have a long way to go to really fix it to my personal standards and blogging style.

Third, post a note on the WordPress Support Forum about the problem. Search first to see if someone else has had the similar problem and come up with an answer, and then ask. They are awesome folks there, ready and willing to help. But start with the plugin author first.

Also, take time to do a full Backup of your WordPress blog right now to make sure that your hunt for the problem doesn’t make things worse and you have something close to right to fall back on.

I’ve lost plenty of posts for different reasons, especially during the massive test driving of WordPress.com (and WordPress 1.6/2.0 driving it), hours and hours of work gone in an instant. My husband is now used to seeing me sob over my computer, bashing my head against the keyboard, but this is how things are tested thoroughly, and I’ve learned to save save save and backup backup backup and roll with the losses.

Thus, you get a better WordPress product, helped by my tears.

Good luck and let me know how it turned out so we can all learn from this.

Ironically, the recent post I wrote about upgrading painlessly to WordPress 2.0. This resulted in my trackback to Lorelle’s tips on upgrading not working correctly (as the trackback link led to a 404 error), so thanks to her for letting me know. …

Thanks for your tips. I”m not a techie. My designer rolled wp into my music site, so I’m in no hurry to attempt an update. Last night, after being a holiday slacker, I decided to write a bunch of drafts to put up later. This morning, the draft titles are still there, but all the content is missing. When I try to edit existing blog entries, the same thing happens. The titles are there, but the content is not. The only plugin I use is the WYSIWYG for composing posts (http://mudbomb.com/archives/2005/02/02/wysiwyg-plugin-for-wordpress/). When I deactivate this plugin, the content reappears on my published entries, but my draft content is STILL missing even when the plugin is off.

Can you advise me? Is the problem the plugin? If it is, would it be affect my blog like this even though I have not upgraded to wp 2. I’m still using 1.5.2

Thanks for your help. Good luck with your writing endeavors.

Deanna

Playpen has now been upgraded to WordPress 2.0 largely without pain. In fact, without any pain at all, although I was particularly careful to back-up everything possible and check the back-up. Lorelle has an excellent collection of tips and links about…