Comments on: Why You Should Disable Wordpress “Post Revisions” To Save Database Space

By: mysuperwoofer

mysuperwoofer — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:08:25 +0000

thanks for teach us how to disable post revisons function, I need that function.

By: HipSoul Clothing

HipSoul Clothing — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:30:12 +0000

Why does the Codex article you linked to (Revision_Management) state exactly the opposite of what you said… verbatim:

“There is only ever a maximum of one autosave for any given post. New autosaves overwrite old autosaves. This means that no, your tables do not grow by one row every 60 seconds.”

I keep reading all these panic articles about disabling your autosaves… and while it seems like it may have been necessary in v2.6 when this features was released… it certainly isn’t anything to worry about now @ v2.9

Even though the list of revisions looks long, it’s only ONE save to the table… so basically, everytime you write a blog post, it’s only saving a second backup post as a reference for ALL those revision.

It’s not that big of a deal… people in the computer world actually go as far as to RAID their hard drives together, just to create a redundancy in case of disaster… it’s. a. good. thing!

And as far as I can tell, Wordpress has implmented the feature in a very clean manner that does exactly the OPPOSITE of what your telling the world here.

You should really READ the articles you quote.

By: winston lawrence

winston lawrence — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:44:41 +0000

THANK YOU for this. I had close to 700 redundant posts hanging out there on just my small blog yeesh!If going to mention this on my blog as well (props back to you of course)

By: paul

paul — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:09:06 +0000

great info. thanks for sharing.

By: Techachino

Techachino — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:29:30 +0000

Thanks for the information. But it would be helpful if you would reverse the order of the SQL queries listed in your post. Running the second one after you already deleted all revision posts is useless.

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:56:54 +0000

Hi, is their a way to change of often the “Post Revisions” saves a revision? Like every fifth minute or so?

By: Lincoln

Lincoln — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:32:08 +0000

Hi Heather,

Did you install both plugins? the first Wordpress Revision Control Plugin allows you to control the revision options and the second Wordpress Delete Revision Plugin should allow you to delete them.

Let me know if you tried the Wordpress Delete Revision Plugin and if it was that plugin that didn’t work. If so i will edit the article to reflect this.

Thanks and happy this help you save some space

Lincoln

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:04:33 +0000

I installed the plugin on one of my sites but found that it only affects revisions going forward from the time you installed it – it does not remove existing revisions. So, I ran the SQL query as well. As a result, its database size went from 983 KB to 60kb in less than a minute. How. Cool. Is. That.

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