Recovering an unfinished post

Having discussed the festival at length we got about half way through Friday's task. We'll pick that up today, and start into some additional tasks.

First though: how do you edit a post to add to it/make changes?

Anytime you're about to log off, you have two options: PUBLISH POST or SAVE NOW.

If you publish you can go back and edit the post at any time, but whatever you've put in that post will now be visible on your blog. If you click 'save now' your post does not appear, but it is saved and can be seen by you alone in a list of your posts, enabling you to reopen it and finish it off before finally publishing it.

I'll save this post now and follow the steps to bring it back up to complete it...


This brings us to your current situation: you've started a blog post, but its not finished.
There are two ways we can resume working on it.
So long as you're logged in, you'll see a little pencil at the bottom of every post you've published on your blog. Clicking on this will bring your post up in the same window you see when you click 'new post' (the post editor).
So, I'll try that now...
Indeed, there it is, that little pencil (at the bottom of the post), which has brought me back into the post editor!





If I'd saved rather than published my unfinished post, its also simple. I can either click on the RETURN TO LIST OF POSTS which appears at the very bottom of the post editor screen, or I can go into my dashboard (the screen you see when you log in to blogger; clicking on the orange 'b' logo at the top left of the screen always takes you there too), find this blog and click on EDIT POSTS....



I then see a list of my posts and simply have to click on edit to resume work on this post. Notice its listed as DRAFT; when last editing this post I clicked on SAVE AS DRAFT instead of PUBLISH POST, meaning it would no longer be visible on the blog.


Now that I've gotten this far with this post, I've decided it makes more sense to publish this as a separate post on blog editing rather than also including instructions on today's lesson, so I'm simply going to delete the post title and type in something different - the title of the post you've been reading...