The No Revisions WordPress Plugin

[09-Jun-09 - Checked against 2.7.1. After an upgrade, you need to deactivate and reactivate the plugin to turn off revisions again.]

While the WordPress 2.6 upgrade has not gone smoothly for a lot of people, one new feature that has yet to bite too many people is post revisions. Whenever you save a change in a post in WordPress 2.6, it saves a copy of the old version as well as your changed version. If you hit ’save’ a lot while writing, that can add up to a lot of extra crud in your database.

Now, these can be turned off by editing your wp-config.php file, but that’s a bit gross for a system like WordPress where everything else can be done through a nice web interface. Better solution: the No Revision plugin.

Just install and activate this plugin and no more revision debris in your database. Of course, that also means no safety net if you accidentally screw up a post and then save it, but that was the case until 2.6 anyway.

I hope this proves useful. Let me know if you use it, like it, hate it, break it, have a suggestion for it, etc.

Related Posts

  • Chapter Quotes for WordPress Posts Revisited
    A few months ago, I wrote a post about adding chapter quotes to your WordPress posts. Here I'll show you another way to add them to posts without them showing up outside of the single-post page, and ...
  • Conditional Shortcodes WordPress Plugin
    BlueHostDreamHostGoDaddyJustHost Conditional Shortcodes is a WordPress plugin that gives the power of conditional tags to the people writing and editing the content. As theme desig...
  • The Custom Rel WordPress Plugin
    BlueHostDreamHostGoDaddyJustHost Starting with version 2.8, WordPress automatically puts relational link tags in the heads of posts. This is not a bad thing at all. Not only are they st...

Leave a Reply

HostMonster for Great Unlimited Web Hosting Hundreds of template and themes from $35