Comments on: Customize WordPress Post Revisions

By: joon

joon — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 22:55:00 +0000

Thanks so much for this info! I have been trying for two days to figure out how to change the title in the post without changing it in the widgets on the sidebar

By: Mike B

Mike B — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:17:12 +0000

I’m using WP3, and I was able to make this work by adding
define(‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, false);
to my wp-config.php file. Initially it didn’t work, but I found it had to be added before the
require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-settings.php’);
line.

I wrote some more on this (and other tips) at
http://mikebeach.org/2010/07/optimizing-wordpress/

By: ipog1100

ipog1100 — Fri, 07 May 2010 21:12:24 +0000

after 2.9.0 you need to put the line define(‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, false ); into wp-settings.php before the wp_functionality_constants( ); function call…

By: Stefan

Stefan — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:32:58 +0000

xenoactive has a point. It’s not in my wp_config.php either, it’s in my wp-settings.php file. May have been changed with newer installations of WP?
May be worth checking out to avoid confusion.

By: Mudro

Mudro — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:29:39 +0000

@xenoactive: Are you saying these lines of code should be added to the wp-config.php file before or after the call to wp-settings.php? I’ve done an hours worth of reading to make sure I do this correctly and then you go and throw me a curve.

@Figaro: Thanks for the informative tutorial. this post is the last stop in my quest for fixing this ridiculous revisions issue WP has going on.

By: xenoactive

xenoactive — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:59:18 +0000

You might also need to check the wp-settings.php file. Depending on where you put the new define statement, this file might override the define statement in the wp-config.php file.

By: figaro

figaro — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:27:15 +0000

@prash: It should work…works on my install.

By: prash

prash — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:17:11 +0000

this doesn’t seem to work on version 2.9.2. is there another way for this version?

By: figaro

figaro — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:05:06 +0000

@Vagabond: Thanks for the tip.

By: Vagabond

Vagabond — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:58:25 +0000

Figaro, you probably should wrap those defines in PRE or CODE tags, because if you just copy/paste in UTF-8 environment those single quotes will go into wp-config.php as is and feature will not work. Just experienced this myself and wanted to let you know. Also WP will remove all of the old extra revisions once you save the article.