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WordPress 2.6 introduced an annoying feature called "Post Revisions", which saves each revision of every post when you edit it (after publishing). Since I practice link clustering, you can imagine how many post revisions are sitting in my database right now.
Lester Chan (aka GamerZ) published the solution with "How To Turn Off Post Revision In WordPress 2.6" as well as how to remove the existing post revisions from the database.
Just like the autosave feature, WordPress administrators should have the option in the settings somewhere to enable or disable the post revisions feature, or at least be able to adjust it.
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Is there anything worth upgrading for – I like 2.5 though some of my blogs are still on 2.3. I certainly dont want every draft in the database – that's just stupid: anything longer than 200words I write off line anyway
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Personnaly, I will wait to perform the upgrade. I don't find a lot of nice features in 2.6. This post revision sounds like crap for me, it will kill my database…
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I have not upgraded to 2.6 yet, and I don't plan on doing it for awhile. I don't need any of the new features that 2.6 has, and in fact, as this post says, some of them are actually troublesome. So I'll just stick with what I have now, which I suppose is 2.5, although I'm not sure.
oooh no thanks, I'm NOT upgrading to Wordpress 2.6 until they fix the numerous problems being discussed about problems logging in after upgrading. Nope, not gonna do it.
For example, check out this post about the problems numerous people are having after upgrading to Wordpress 2.6.
http://www.snoskred.org/2008/07/wordpress-26-warning-do-not-upgrade.html
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My problems were minor, across 5 blogs. 2.6.1 should fix everything I should think.
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Like many others here, im going to hold off on the upgrade, some things have been sorted out but seems like its better to wait a little more.
Thanks… i was postponing upgrading until i found something like this…
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yea i bet thats a pain for you… having to deal with so many :/
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There's a plugin which disables this for you. It's a good idea to save database space and its very useful.
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