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Disabling the Autosave Feature on Wordpress

Posted in: Blog, Wordpress by admin on May 23, 2009

One of the features of Wordpress (version 2.5 to 2.7) is the Autosave feature. Many bloggers might find this feature attractive and swear by it’s functionality, since it allows to track changes in a post. I, however find it very annoying, and want to disable it. This post will discuss how to successfully do so.

The Autosave feature in Wordpress prevents bloggers from loosing their work by saving their blog edits. On the downside, every time you hit preview or save draft, Autosave drops and cancels the most recent edits you have made to your post. So often times you find yourself posting inacurate and or incomplete blog posts and pages without even knowing about it.

During my quests to disable Autosave forever i found quite a few methods to accomplish this goal.

1) Disable Autosave by tweaking some wp-admin/ directory files

Find the following four files in the wp-admin/ directory of your WordPress installation:

  • page-new.php
  • page.php
  • post-new.php
  • post.php

    • and comment out the following line:

    wp_enqueue_script(’autosave’)
    by changing it to:

    //wp_enqueue_script(’autosave’)
    This will disable the autosave feature in the WordPress user interface.

    I love this method, and it works just fine, however if you are not too familiar with .php files there is another method.

    2) Disable Autosave with the use of a plugin:

    if you’ re not comfortable with PHP or your files, then you can also turn off Autosave Feature with this Handy little plugin.

    This plugin allows you to:

  • Turn off the revisions feature completely, some people don’t want to use this. This is great when you are developing a site - why clutter up your database with loads of revisions when you don’t need them! Just turn them off whilst you are developing the site, then turn back on if you want the functionality back on site launch!
  • Turn off the auto save feature, some people have problems with this or don’t wish to be interrupted as they type.

    • That’s all folks

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