How to turn off POST revisions in WordPress
What is the POST revision?
Everytime someone edits a post, a new row is created in the wp_posts table.The number of rows grows as the number of edits grows.It is important to know that autosaves do not create revisions of the post.
This feature is useful only if there is more than one author on the blog, otherwise, it is useless, because you are the only author and you certainly don’t want useless database content.
How To Turn Off Post Revision In WordPress
To turn off the POST revision open your wp-config.php file and add this following line:
define(‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, false);
However, this doesn’t mean that you’ve also deleted the already existing revisions from past edits; if there were any.To delete them, go to phpMyAdmin and firstly, backup your database(just in case) and then run the following query:
DELETE a,b,c
FROM wp_posts a
LEFT JOIN wp_term_relationships b ON (a.ID = b.object_id)
LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta c ON (a.ID = c.post_id)
WHERE a.post_type = ‘revision’
That’s it.You’ve successfully turn off and deleted the POST revisions from your blog.
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