Paragraph separation has disappeared

but can’t get back to again.

Do you mean you can’t get back in dashboard?

I meant that in “Revisions,” I can’t find the “revision” that did indeed have paragraph breaks.

We don’t have any more access to WordPress sites than any normal visitor, nor would we want that, so this isn’t something we could find for you.

You’d have to page through each revision until you find the one with the paragraph breaks.

It is possible that you, or your hosting provider, may have limited the number of revisions stored (the default is unlimited). If that’s the case, you may have already lost the revision you want to restore: https://www.ads-software.com/documentation/article/revisions/#revision-options

Thanks, and sigh. By the way, does WordPress have any competitors that produce the same kind of platform?

There are plenty out there that you can find by searching.

Thanks! But any recommendations as to which are better than others? Or how to establish that?

• This reply was modified 2 months, 3 weeks ago by princeeditor.

Personally I think WordPress is the best free open source CMS available.

A good Samaritan has fixed it for me! I’ll disclose the name once I get permission. Thanks for the moral support. I wish I could be as positive about Word Press as you. Once, in “upgrading,” it assigned new URLs to all the material, thus invalidating all of the existing URLs. The reader now gets a “404.”

Another time, it completely wiped out a number of articles. I reconstructed some, but it would take too long to do them all. Most I could do was tell people what’s missing: https://www.journal-isms.com/more-columns-sept-1-2022-sept-24-2022/

It’s not possible for WordPress to have done either of those things on its own, it would have involved intentional action by someone with admin access to the site.

Example: Original URL:

https://www.journal-isms.com/2022/10/was-u-s-ever-a-democracy-for-people-of-color/

The one that now works:
https://www.journal-isms.com/was-u-s-ever-a-democracy-for-people-of-color/

What human would want to change all the URLs to remove the date?

Yeah, there’s no way for WordPress to have done that on its own.

You, or someone with admin access to the site, would have had to of made the change at Settings -> Permalinks in your site’s Dashboard (which is also where you can change it back now if you want to).

Thanks. At the time, I didn’t know there were volunteers such as yourself who could answer such questions, since WordPress doesn’t seem to provide its own support staff, to my knowledge, and my local Best Buy people, where I have a service package, say they never heard of WordPress. Live and learn.

WordPress is free software, developed and supported entirely by volunteers, and backed solely by donations to a non-profit foundation.

We have no paid staff, but we do have plenty of volunteers ready to help when they are able to. ??

Thanks. Got it.

R.P.