Easy to lose draft post if logged off for some reason

[lloydbudd]

Easy to lose draft post if logged off for some reason

ENV: WP trunk r8759

I had written my greatest post ever. Clicking publish, I found myself staring at the login page. I don't know what that happened, but I think that is the lesser issue.

It's easy to reproduce by manually logging off while writing.

If logged out while writing an article:

1) the feedback, if any, when auto-save fails sucks. We need to help the person preserve their work

2) After clicking Save/Publish and logging back in, my work is gone. Using the Firefox 3 Back button returning to wp-admin/post-new.php I'm crying because of the blank page that confronts me.

[tott]

simple feedback patch wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

[tott]

I attached a simple patch to provide feedback within the autosave message. maybe something more obvious needed.

The most obvious attempt to save the data would be storing it in a session and set a cookie. After login this cookie could be used in edit post page to recover the post and procude a draft.

[tott]

screenshot of notice

[azaozz]

(In [9216]) Show warning if user is logged out while writing or editing, includes patch by tott, fixes #7630