One of the good and bad feature of wordpress is post revision. Good because if something goes wrong we can pull up last working revision of post. Bad because if you edit your post a lot, you might creating almost 10-20 copies of same post in your database.
Yesterday I was checking one post of mine which had almost more then 20 post revision. Keeping lots of post revision doesn’t make any sense.
Here is the screenshot of post revision feature of wordpress
Post revision control is a wordpress plugin which enable us to either disable or limit the post revision. This will help us not to out extra load on our database and keep it neat and clean.
Link : Post revision control wordpress plugin
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Can’t we just delete the post revisions? Like we do in Microsoft word. Word also saves revisions in temporary hidden files in the same location as the word document is, that we are editing. But it automatically deletes all of them, once we close the Word editor.
Something like this should be there for wordpress as well? IN btw, does it also mean that a lot of diskspace is going waste on wordpress servers?
You got it right, it also means lots of disk space wastage on your server.
Yah we do have options to delete the post revision but when you have lots of blog or one blog with more then 500+ posts you can’t really afford to delete post revision one by one.
That’s why I found this plugin very handy.
This is one of the feature provided by Wordpress which many people refuse to use. I was one of them. When i saw this feature in 2.7 on same day i was searching for something like this. I am using this plugin from 3-4 days when i switched to WP 2.7.
BTW New theme is really cool.. I like it.
Thanks Chetan, m glad that you liked it
Harsh, I have disabled manually. But doesn’t seem to work.
Nihar it’s working for me. Have you check the settings under Tools>revision?
Me going to use it Tanks
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LOL .. definitely trying this and was glad to see you’d blogged this, and given me the heads up, thank you Harsh.
The other way to rid yourself of post revisions, if you’re already overrun with plugins, is to log into the mysql shell, then ..
USE database [db_name];
DELETE FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = “revision”;
.. but substitute the wp_ in wp_posts for your db prefix .. cos you have changed that little security risk, huh
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Seems to be a useful plugin to me as I’m new to Wordpress & Keep Editing My Post Often to suit the Theme.
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Srinavas if you edit your blog post a lot, I will also suggest try Maxblogpress ping optimizer plugin.
http://www.shoutmeloud.com/maxblogpress-ping-optimizer-wordpress-must-have-plugin.html