WordPress 2.7 is great– so many new functionalities! BUT please– why oh why did they not revise the “revision” capability?! WordPress’ existing Revision feature is like an auto-save feature– it will automatically save your posts as you write them, so that should your computer or software crash, you have a current copy of what you’re writing. It’s a very nice feature, except for these reasons:
- It saves every minute or so, making a new copy (not over-writing the old copy).
- It creates a huge post database which makes your blog work harder to load your posts.
- It has no delete capability, so these revisions sit in your database, unused.
Yeah yeah, there are ways to tinker with your wp-config.php file and disable the revision feature. But the ability to delete and/or disable and/or control the revision feature SHOULD BE built-in. It’s ridiculous not to have it!
So, anyway, I’ve found a very good plugin for revision control, called, not surprisingly, Revision Control. I’ve tried it an all my blogs, and it works perfectly. I have mine set to auto-save only TWO posts (you can choose to save more). It also gives you the ability to disable revisions completely, and to delete existing revisions. Kind of like virtual wrinkle creams for all the excess baggage you want to smooth out of your databases! (How’s that for fitting it in, huh?) :-p
My only complaint with Revision Control would be that I wish it had a checklist where I could tick off radio buttons and delete the revisions all at once. As it is now, I have to click “Delete” for each revision that exists, which is tedious, because a lot of my old posts have a dozen or more revisions sitting in my database! But that’s a small complaint.
Check out the plugin, it works well for all my 2.7 blogs (and I hear it is compatible for 2.6 WP blogs as well).
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