Turn Off WordPress Post Revisions

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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July 18th, 2008 By RT Cunningham | Untwisted Vortex | Philippines | Categories: WordPress | Tags: features, noads, post revisions | Respond | Trackback URL

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2. hari on 2008-07-18 at 4:11 pm (Reply)

   This is kind of what happens when a "geek" software starts catering to the "mass". I preferred WordPress when it remained a geek blogging tool (when it was in version 1.5.x) and was simple, light and not too cluttered.

   Now it seems that in order to cater to ever increasing user demands, the feature list is full of things we geeks don't want or care about.

   My latest blog post: Combating inflation - the Papa Hari Way

   2. RT Cunningham | Untwisted Vortex | Philippines on 2008-07-18 at 4:21 pm (Reply)

      Exactly. This may be a good time for me to start working on custom blog software (for myself).

   3. Gary R. Hess from Poet Blogger on 2008-07-19 at 2:10 pm (Reply)

      I completely agree. Firefox is the same way, back when it was Firebird it was a heck of a lot smaller, yet still open source and easy to create plugins/extensions for. Now it is a bloated piece of software that has so many features it is ridiculous.

      My latest blog post: The Kansas City Royals - Poem

      2. drew on 2008-07-19 at 9:31 pm (Reply)

         Firefox is still open source.

         As for Wordpress, yeah, it's bloated now! It's catering to the computer masses that really shouldn't be computing.

      3. MrCorey on 2008-07-20 at 9:16 am (Reply)

         I don't think that you're going far enough back. I found that when Phoenix became Firebird, the bloat piled on.

3. Tim on 2008-07-18 at 8:02 pm (Reply)

   Custom blog software sounds time consuming. A man of your talents could probably find thousands of valuable things to do with your time rather than invent a better mousetrap
   Of course, as a rewarding personal project this one may have you eager to get started. The whole idea of coding doesn't fill most of us with anticipation.

   My latest blog post: Looks Like We Finally Made It

   2. RT Cunningham | Untwisted Vortex | Philippines on 2008-07-18 at 11:36 pm (Reply)

      I don't like the coding portion, but I do like the problem-solving portion. Even if start on a project like that, I won't let it interfere with my regular routines.

      I'm pretty confident that I could put a custom package together in a day since it wouldn't have to support anyone but me.

4. Larry from Commercial Lighting on 2008-07-18 at 8:59 pm (Reply)

   Yeah that is a cheesy feature. Doesn't it come turned off. I don't remember if I had to turn it off or not.

   2. RT Cunningham | Untwisted Vortex | Philippines on 2008-07-18 at 11:53 pm (Reply)

      It comes as turned on with no apparent way to turn it off.

5. hari on 2008-07-18 at 9:31 pm (Reply)

   I have a base for a custom blog software. But it's not too powerful and it's quite incomplete at the moment.

   Also if I write a blog software, it will use SQLite and not MySQL.

   Writing another blog software doesn't fill me with thrills. It's boring, involves writing more SQL statements and HTML markup than actual coding.

   My latest blog post: Combating inflation - the Papa Hari Way

   2. RT Cunningham | Untwisted Vortex | Philippines on 2008-07-18 at 11:58 pm (Reply)

      I would probably use a single text file schema for data such as page link, title, categories, tags, etc. The data for less than 100,000 posts would load in less than a second.

      I would probably also have comments saved as individual files in the same location as each page.

      I could use embedded PHP function calls and I don't think it would be nearly as slow as database queries.

6. bob from ipod repair on 2008-07-19 at 12:50 am (Reply)

   i haven't upgraded yet. Should I? Are there alot of improvements?

   2. RT Cunningham | Untwisted Vortex | Philippines on 2008-07-19 at 12:56 am (Reply)

      You should always upgrade (but keep a backup) because upgrades include security fixes.

7. designing trade show displays on 2008-07-19 at 2:49 am (Reply)

   Hi RT, this is actually a test comment to see if I broke your comment program. It doesn't seem that new comment info (name/website) is being accepted? If this posts, ignore it. Thanks. ~ Steve

   2. RT Cunningham | Untwisted Vortex | Philippines on 2008-07-19 at 3:00 am (Reply)

      Okay, I'm ignoring it. By the way, by looking at my name here, can you guess what keyword I'm trying to rank for?

      2. trade show booths on 2008-07-19 at 3:17 am (Reply)

         hi RT, I hadn't noticed your name change. Is that something new? Makes me think this blog must be about the Philippines. ~ Steve

         2. RT Cunningham | Untwisted Vortex | Philippines on 2008-07-19 at 3:20 am (Reply)

            Brand new. I had to run a database query to change all the old ones and update my user profile for the new one.

            I can go in and change the links as I go to point to specific posts. Meh, I'll do that AFTER I get the majority of the clustering done.

8. trade show displays on 2008-07-19 at 2:53 am (Reply)

   Ok, I take that back. It is working and I didn't break it. Wheww…. So ignore this one too. ~ Steve

9. Peter Answers on 2008-07-19 at 5:12 am (Reply)

   Thanks for this solution, while I love Wordpress in general this addition seemed frivolous and because I save me posts often I fear it will cause a huge increase in my database. It seems like at least someone needs to create a plugin to fix this.

   My latest blog post: Do You Know Peter Answers?

   2. hari on 2008-07-19 at 10:48 am (Reply)

      When you need plugins to *disable* features rather than extend functionality, you know something is screwed up in the software design.

      My latest blog post: Combating inflation - the Papa Hari Way

      2. trade show displays on 2008-07-19 at 11:13 am (Reply)

         I hereby nominate hari for comment of the day for his comment:
         "When you need plugins to disable features rather than extend functionality, you know something is screwed up in the software design."
         LOL! ~ Steve

10. Sonni on 2008-07-19 at 8:42 am (Reply)

    I didn't upgrade for fear of it changing my blog beyond recognition. I have read many comments on how this new upgrade messed up other people's blog so maybe it's best I leave it as is.
    Sonni

    My latest blog post: Is Your Life Out of Balance?

11. Simon from Custom T Shirt Store on 2008-07-19 at 11:29 am (Reply)

    There are alway teething problems with upgrades. I was annoyed when they started using Google instead of Technorati to show incoming links, as it was less accurate.

12. lissie from hubpages internet marketing on 2008-07-19 at 11:46 am (Reply)

    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

    My latest blog post: Where to publish your best content

13. Olivier from Prêt immobilier on 2008-07-19 at 4:25 pm (Reply)

    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…

    My latest blog post: Toujours aussi pourri

14. Justin from Electric Airsoft Guns on 2008-07-20 at 12:50 am (Reply)

    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.

15. Lin Burress on 2008-07-20 at 10:28 am (Reply)

    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

    My latest blog post: Telling It Like It Is is on Staycation

    2. RT Cunningham | Untwisted Vortex | Philippines on 2008-07-20 at 11:23 am (Reply)

       My problems were minor, across 5 blogs. 2.6.1 should fix everything I should think.

16. DrB on 2008-07-22 at 8:55 pm (Reply)

    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.

17. Link Building Bible on 2008-07-24 at 4:10 am (Reply)

    Thanks… i was postponing upgrading until i found something like this…

    My latest blog post: Link Building Tip: Great backlinks from Searchles.

18. Mike from Grohe Faucets on 2008-07-24 at 6:37 am (Reply)

    yea i bet thats a pain for you… having to deal with so many :/

19. Justin from Become a police sheriff on 2008-10-20 at 1:24 pm (Reply)

    There's a plugin which disables this for you. It's a good idea to save database space and its very useful.

    My latest blog post: Learning about becoming a sheriff

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