do you really think extra entries in your database will slow wordpress? unless you make thousand sof posts, i fail to see where this is a big problem.

Alex,
Although I love the new post revision feature, I have to agree with your post. Writing is also not my strongest talent so I do save quite often, producing a lot of duplicated content in my database. I think a good feature that the WordPress crew could implement is to have a check box asking if this save is a minor revision or not (like more wikis do). If it is a minor revision then just save the darn thing and not make a copy of it. If it is a major revision then save a copy of it. Also like you said, it would be nice to be able to clean up these revisions manually (or automatically based on time).

This is definitely going to be a big issue on my part. I’m also the kind of guy who is not really into writing and I can tell you I make probably quite a number of changes and savings before finally publishing one post.

I think this is an opportunity for someone to come up with a plugin that will rectify this problem.

Alas Lester Chan comes to the rescue. Here’s a way to turn off Post revisioning, http://lesterchan.net/wordpres.....dpress-26/

Never thought of this issue, thanks for pointing it out and thanks for the fix.

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Alex,

I agree totally. I like my installs to be lean and mean and that goes for the dbs as well. I also do most of my writing in the editor, blessed with a reliable ISP, and
really don’t want to autosave constantly.

All they need to do is a toggle for this (for me) unwanted feature.

Regards,

Lowell

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My stance on this is that if things are running fine then don’t upgrade. I have yet to upgrade to 2.6 and still don’t know whether I will. I think I am done adding new plugins and stuff so things won’t be changing that much. Unless I see some new feature that I simply can’t resist I see no need to upgrade.

While playing with 2.6 on my dev server I did come across the easter egg in post revisions

Thank you so much for posting this Alex. Thanks for the solutions to this, too.
I also post directly into Word Press and not as a text document before. I also take a long time to make posts and will go back in and make edits. It is great to know that I am not alone. I thought I was the slowest writer in the world. I used to enjoy posting in forums but time just flew away.

I upgraded today and followed the steps on the video that you had for us Alex. It was a very easy upgrade on the blogs that were already 2.5. The one blog I had that was still 2.3 was a bit more time consuming because I upgraded it to 2.5 first after reading in your forum. Then I used the video steps to upgrading to 2.6.

This is my first upgrade where I did not have to pester Alex for days.

Rocque

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Organize series author are aware of the issues.. But i really don’t know when the fix will come out.. I am using organize series on my blog and the workaround is to disable post revision as describe in lester chan’s blog

Do you think there is going to be a new update to Word Press then that will fix this issue?

What if we do like someone mentioned and just keep using the 2.5 series?
What are the other important features with this update that we need?

I have only upgraded one blog while I wait for answers.

Thanks,
Rocque

I don’t think that the dev team is going to ‘fix’ the issues. Because frankly it is not really an issue.

Sure, it’s annoying as hell but it really it’s just a feature that some people don’t like. Much like the decision to move the category selection in the write post page during the 2.3>2.5 transition.

The most that they would do (and I really doubt that they will), is to create a easily accessible way to disable the post revision function and/or to provide an easy way to delete old post revisions.

Which, if you follow lester chan’s guide, you can do right now.

Sticking with 2.5 is an option.. but it’s just delaying the inevitable.. sooner or later you’ll have to upgrade anyways.. because sooner or later the’ll be a security hole that pops up that the dev team won’t spend time fixing in 2.5

Thanks to both of you, Alex and Paan, for your replies. I will simply upgrade then and install the plug in as you suggest.

On another thought, I find it interesting that so many of us who left comments talk about how long it takes us to write posts. I keep a notebook with me for when I am stuck in traffic or waiting for a doctor appointment or have some spare time at work, and I try to write then.

I am either reading, writing, or pounding the keyboard. I just hope the eyes and the fingers always hold up since they take som much abuse.

Too bad we can not just upgrade them every 3 months. ^_^

I really don’t think post revisions are a real problem. the posts table is pretty well indexed so like another commenter said here unless you have thousands of posts it would not make any difference.

I’m guessing the only problem with revisions would be a slower / bigger database backup but again that’s only true if you have a lot of posts.

I did notice Wordpress was whining about an autosaved post that was newer than a post I just published the other day. I was confused what its problem was since it never complained before.

It let me compare the two posts, then told me both were identical but continued to ask me if I wanted to use the newer copy. I’ll probably just turn of the revision to prevent future annoyances.

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i think the reason people think that this is annoying is that most blogs are ran by a single person and therefore the feature is moot. But it takes such a front stage position in our new post page.

I could see the benefit of the revision system on a blog with multiple authors, or blog with editors that approve a story before publishing. But maybe there should be a visible option to toggle off the revision system for the rest of us.

You might want to try this plugin CMS Post Control to turn the post revision function off and on plus some.

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here’s an idea - why not work on (and save) your posts in microsoft word and when the post is ready, cut and paste into the edit box and click publish?

I hate this feauture! has anyone created a plugin to disable it and even better delete old revisions?

I am using the excellent WP-CSM Post Control pluin over at http://wp-cms.com/our-wordpres.....ol-plugin/ - it not only allows you to turn off post revisions, but also Autosave and change the Flash uploader back to the standard HTML uploader.

In addition to this you can also control every aspect of the write post/page panel, allowing you to hide rarely used items like trackbacks/pingbacks… highly recommended and has a nice control panel to control this - so no need to edit code to control these features!

Great post. Thanx for sharing.I really enjoy it! looking forward to more.