WordPress is a sophisticated, feature-rich, ever-evolving blogging engine. However, as the author of largely single-author blogs, I find one of the recent additions to its feature set unnecessary, namely the post revision feature. When using this feature, WordPress occasionally alerts me that there exists a previously unsaved copy of the post I am working on that looks newer than the present version, when clearly there is not. It seems like a mistake on WordPress’s part and I feel cautious enough to rollback to double check its assessment of the situation, only to find that the current version is identical to the previously saved version. So, I have concluded on single-user blogs I have no real need for such a feature and wish to disable it.
How? There is a straightforward, single line addition to the wp-config.php file (located in the root folder of your WordPress installation) that promptly takes care of this:
define(‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, FALSE);
EDIT: I recently discovered this plugin that allows greater flexibility when managing post revision.
