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How to Recover Missing or Deleted Content on a Page
How to Recover Missing or Deleted Content on a Page

Use the WordPress Revision system or Divi's History system to restore missing or deleted page content.

Updated over 5 months ago

In rare cases, the page's content or layout may be completely missing or removed during the Publish or Update process.

To recover the missing content or layout, follow the steps below:

Using the WordPress Revision System

WordPress provides the Revision System out of the box, which can be used to recover any lost content.

  1. Go to WordPress Dashboard β†’ Pages β†’ All Pages

  2. Edit the page that lost the content or layout

  3. From the right sidebar, click on the Revisions link

    WordPress Page Revision System - Open the Revisions System

  4. Use the History timeline to restore a previous revision. You can navigate through the timeline using the Previous/Next buttons

    WordPress Page Revision System - How to navigate trough the Revisions

  5. Once you find the revision you need, click on the Restore This Revision button

    WordPress Page Revision System

Notes:

  • The left column (red) shows the things that have been removed.

  • The right column (green) shows the things that have been added.

Using Divi's History System

Note: This can be used only if the browser tab containing the page with the Visual Builder was not closed before.

  1. Click on the Three dots icon to expand the Builder's Toolbar

  2. Click on the History icon to open the History panel

  3. Click on the most recent history in the History Panel

    Divi History System - Load a previous revision

Using the hosting's backup system

Any modern web hosting has a backup system. In this case, the hosting backup (if any) can be used to roll back to a previous state.

If none of the previous methods help, try contacting your hosting company and asking them to roll back any available backups.

Important Note: The backup should be no older than 1 day (24 hours). Once the backup is restored, everything done after that date will be lost.

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