Comments on: The “Post Revisions” Feature on WordPress

By: George Thistle

George Thistle — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:26:14 +0000

There are definately flaws in the way wordpress is built and run, but this is still an extremely useful feature. WordPress is still the best blogging software out there in my opinion

By: Aminul Islam Sajib

Aminul Islam Sajib — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:43:58 +0000

I’m not a better blogger but still I gotta say I submitted a much more better guest post which Daniel rejected politely. My opinion is this article or guest post harms the standard of this blog. Too ordinary topic.

By: reza

reza — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:19:44 +0000

yes,,,this feature is really usefull
but problem occur when we have too much revision

our db will be crowded and could slow down wordpress

you can use delete-revision plug in clean up those revisions

By: Vlatko

Vlatko — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:27:20 +0000

Well… there is also a negative side effect of using that post revision feature. It builds up your DB with entering records for every post revision. So if you have 700 posts than you will have approximately 2100 revisions and even more.

So what is the problem about it. It simply slows down the loading time of the blog. When a visitor hits the url of particular post than that post has to be found in the DB through all those 2100 records instead through 700.

The solution: Add define(‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, false);M to your wp-config.php

The autosave feature will still be there and wordpress will notify you if you have autosave version of the post instead of all those post revisions.

Cheers

By: mark harrison

mark harrison — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:45:35 +0000

What a strange post and definately not up to the usual standard. It sounds like you are running out of things to blog about and if I was you Daniel, I would double check the quality of your guest bloggers content.