Disable Revisions and Autosave plugins
25th July 2008
Edit Dec. 19, 2008 - The plugins are WordPress 2.7 compatible.
I’ve already reported about WordPress revisions and autosave problem yesterday.
I was thinking about a quite different solution and the I found that it’s really trivial to prepare three WordPress plugins that can disable Revisions, Autosave or both of them at the same time.
disable-autosave.zip (Right Click - Save As) - Disable Autosave function
disable-revisions.zip (Right Click - Save As) - Disable Revisions function
disable-revisions-and-autosave.zip (Right Click - Save As) - Disable Revisions and Autosave at the same time.
Using a plugin is far faster and easier than editing the wp-config file; plus everyone can Activate or Deactive them whenever is needed.
I’ve got very limited time to test them, but I’m actually using the “disable-revisions-and-autosave” on this blog and as far as I can say it works flawlessly.
Every comment or hint is very welcome!
The disabling Autosave plugin was already online yesterday, but I’ve slightly modify it to report the original code author.
EDIT 11 Sept. 2008
Some comments are not visible (removed) due to DB problems.
During the last weeks an hacking attempt led against the ISP on which Exper Chaotic Flow is currently running forced me to switch to a temporary server which trashed the last automatic DB recovers.
I’ll updated this post’s comments by hand as soon as I’ll have some spare time; some of the vanished ones are still there on my local backup.
Sorry for the setback.
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28 July 2008 at 9:32 am
Hey thanks for the plugin! It actually stopped my post IDs from jumping exponentially, something the other “disable-post-revisions” plugins didn’t do. (: ^^
28 July 2008 at 10:58 am
Glad you liked it Hikoto.
I’ve used it during the last days and yes… it works.
What other plugins did you found?
Maybe I’ve got to put it also on the WP plugins repository.
29 July 2008 at 2:06 am
Yeah I think you absolutely should! That way, we could update our plugin via the dashboard once a new version is available (if there is one!)
The other fixes I tried were the “insert 2 lines into your wp-config file” and this plugin. Both really didn’t manage to disable autosave that’s why I think the IDs were still jumping.
I don’t use “pretty permalinks” that’s why I’m so concerned about the IDs. It’s a just a little naggy preference of mine.
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31 July 2008 at 5:49 pm
Thanks for this plugin. Too bad things have to be dealt with by plugins instead of a simple option.
31 July 2008 at 6:41 pm
You’re welcome Ben.
That’s for sure. Up to now I’ve got some headaches after updating to 2.5 and then 2.6 but, as far I can see, WP still seems the best solution; to me, at least.
The
Dev team don’t seems intentioned in putting Revisions and Autosave options in the Admin panel, so… what can I say?
We’ll use the plugin solution. Better than nothing!
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6 August 2008 at 7:45 pm
Brilliant! Thank you sooooooo much!
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4 September 2008 at 2:24 am
Oh, thank goodness! You’re a lifesaver. I make tons of little revisions to most of my posts, both blog and CMS, and the revision list and id jumping are driving me crazy! I mean, some of us actually use post IDs in the templates, for menus and whatnot, and I don’t want to have them be three miles long six months from now. *exasperated* Otto pissed me off so bad on this issue, and Ryan isn’t any better.
So thank you again!
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9 September 2008 at 12:35 pm
Thanks!I am a Chinese user.
10 September 2008 at 10:53 am
Is it possible to keep the Autosave-function itself alive, just without creating new post ids for the autosave?
10 September 2008 at 11:49 am
Thanks a lot to everyone, glad it was useful.
@Andy: WordPress 2.6.x changed the Autosave function; it always creates e new revision now.
The old 2.5.x function could be implemented back via plugin, as far as I can imagine, but I didn’t tried it and I’ve actually got to much limited spare time to test it. Who knows… maybe soon or later.
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Thanks.
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28 October 2008 at 4:59 pm
Hi there. Great plugin! BUT, there is any way I can delete old archived revisions? Since them are useless and consuming a high amount of db space.
30 October 2008 at 11:26 am
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30 October 2008 at 5:32 pm
Hi Marcelo,
sorry for the long delay.
You can can delete all the old revisions this way
1: Log into your phpMyAdmin panel
2: Backup the whole DB
3: Click on the SQL -> SQL query
4: Copy, paste and run the code in “Run SQL query”
DELETE a,b,c FROM wp_posts a LEFT JOIN wp_term_relationships b ON (a.ID=b.object_id) LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta c ON (a.ID=c.post_id) WHERE a.post_type='revision';Note: you have to change the table prefix “wp” to the one you’re really using.
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5 November 2008 at 7:13 pm
Thanks for distributing this. It was badly needed.
DAN
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15 December 2008 at 9:24 pm
Hi, thanks for the plugin. I am too lazy to do such thing myself (also, I’m no programmer). However, I must notice that there is a missing ” ?> ” at the end of ” disable-revisions.php ” I don’t know if it has been fixed in the repository, but here the download hasn’t.
Cheerio!
16 December 2008 at 5:59 pm
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17 December 2008 at 7:59 pm
Thanks a lot Quoth!
Sorry for the setback; I’ve uploaded the wrong version. Updated now.
18 December 2008 at 5:38 pm
You are a life-saver, buddy. I actually had my blogs disabled because the mySQL queries were so slow because there were so many autosaves/revision that my 200 post blog have 1900+ posts in the database, os every multi-word query took ages. After about 24 hours I figured out I needed to get rid of the autosave/revision function and your pugin is a life-saver. Thanks, man Much appreciated.
18 December 2008 at 6:56 pm
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21 December 2008 at 11:02 am
Thanks for the plugin it works great!
27 December 2008 at 3:02 am
Hi, thank you for sharing this plug in. It’s working!
27 December 2008 at 7:57 am
Why doesn’t it work with my WP 2.7?!
27 December 2008 at 10:05 am
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28 December 2008 at 10:43 am
@Ai.Freedom: I really don’t know; It works perfectly on my WP 2.7.
What one are you using?