I started to write Plan from recipe — Write.as and clicked the Publish button to see how I was doing. It looked fine. But then when I clicked Edit again, all my markdown text disappeared.
All blank, all gone, in the Editor. I copied all the text so I don’t lose all my work but will do my writing elsewhere until I get write.as editing correctly again.
Help would be good…
Started over and the Edit function seems to be working. I have no idea what I did wrong the first time, or what Write.as did wrong. I’ll keep going a bit and see if the problems happen again…
Oops, the problem came back. I give up on write.as until I get a solid solution. Wasting too much time…
P.S. I have really liked using Write.as and want to continue, but as of now, I am stuck.
Did you start a new post before trying to edit the one you were working on?
If I knew exactly what you were doing, maybe I could reproduce the error, and either explain how or why it happened. I personally haven’t experienced the issue that you’re describing.
Did you start a new post before trying to edit the one you were working on?
Just tried that, seems to work ok. So I have no idea what I did wrong the first time, but it wasted a day for me. Will keep trying the new post later today and see how it goes…
Happening again. When I click edit, all my work disappears. Here’s what I wrote so far:
I also never got the page mentioned in the first message above to work,.
Anybody have any ideas of what I did wrong or what I can do to continue to use write.as?
Is this on the Rich Text editor, and did you have any HTML in your post? If so, this might be the issue / solution:
This was in markdown. I did have an attempt to format a link using HTML syntax. Should I avoid that? I think I tried markdown link syntax first but couldn’t get it to display as a clickable link, and so tried HTML syntax next because I thought markdown allowed that…
Yeah, everything works best if you just use Markdown instead of HTML (especially if using the rich text editor). In the rich text editor, you should be able to highlight the text and then click the “link” icon in the bar (or press Ctrl+K / Cmd+K on Mac). Otherwise in the plain text editor, the link syntax is this:
[Link text that shows up](https://example.com)
Also, be sure there’s no space between the ]( characters
Yes, to what Matt said. Adding to it, I’m using lots of HTML directly within the Markdown editor, and haven’t lost anything since I switched from the Rich Text editor (per Nigel’s solution to my inquiry about this). I use Markdown for everything except structural HTML (like divs) and when I need to apply a class attribute. So far I haven’t been let down.