We’ve always been vigilant about keeping your data backed up and up-to-date. You deserve to have that kind of control, too.
That’s why there’s Post Revisions, which keeps a copy of the post or page you’re editing each time you save it. Even cooler, it allows you to look back at the five most recent saved changes and revert to an earlier version if you need to.
Post Revisions originated as a plugin called blicki by Ryan Boren. We improved the code and user experience for inclusion in WordPress 2.6, and have now enabled it for everyone on WordPress.com.
Post Revisions improves several things in WordPress…
Multi-author blogs: You can see who made changes to posts, and when.
Undo: If you accidentally delete a paragraph and then hit the save button, don’t worry! That old information is still there for you to reference or revert to.
Autosave: Autosave is now enabled for all posts and pages, not just drafts.
And it’s got pretty colors, too.
To try out Post Revisions, select a revision date in the Post Revisions section under the text editor. Select another date in the revisions list, click Compare Revisions, and you can check out the two versions of your post side by side, with changes clearly highlighted.
If you like what you see in a prior post better, just click Restore for that date and the post is reverted back (with a new version stored next time you save, of course).
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This tool has helped me great, I would have lost a whole long post – but it stillm was “there”! Thanks again!
Good work. This will come in handy with BLOGS I set up for my clients and then give them access to after the first cut is up.
This is the most gorgeous feature for us, poor bloggers, periodically affected by swapping fingers, drunken keyboards and lunatic movements! Great news, thanks a lot…
Thanks wordpress! I love the captions on the images, and now with the ability to go back to previous rewrites is wonderful.
This is great, I’m happy I got my old files back 🙂
Thanks very much! This is very useful! One of the best updates.
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Mohd222 😉
thanks. this is a great feature. good job, guys 😀
Great feature. Thanks!
There is a way to disable this on WordPress.com ? I usually do an export of my blog, and I’m sure that with post revisions my blog will grow quickly without any advantage.
Good catch! 🙂
We’ll address revisions in exports soon.
awsome .. very useful. Thanks
A great idea
It’s a nice feature, but I wish the history was longer than just five posts. I tend to do a lot of small edits as I write. It’s not a big problem though, as I do most the drafting in an external editor anyway.
Awesome WordPress, this feature is perfect.
Awesome! Better updates!
Congratulations and Thanks sincerly.
What a great feature! Thanks so much for continuing to improve WordPress.
Thanks!
Amazing and great for wordpress blogger. Keep goin’ and thanks for any service future!
thank the tool is very helpful.
Yes… much thanks to the great WordPress team!
Thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
good stuff…it will really help me a lot…… thanks for u team…
great stuff 🙂 thanks WP team!
Very nice. Thank you!!
Thank’s for all
Great feature!
Super work, thanks!
A very useful addition.
We love surprises, we love wordpress.com 🙂
Keep it going guys!
I’ve just joined and now it makes me even happier to know that I’m with WordPress. You also have a reliable support team! Thanks!
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I experienced the same as cpwoton – al whole post with plenty of links had disappeared in one second … Thank you, WP!!
What a great update! Keep up the good work!
-John
This is great! This will certainly help with our posts and pages.
I just wish you could have done this before I deleted one of the most popular posts on my blog! 😦
But that said and done, this is a wonderful feature!!
This is a very good idea. To the above poster – you may find your old post in the Google cache or on archive.org – I have been there before : )
Very useful! Thank you.
This saved my butt today!
I was making an update to a post, and somehow deleted all of the old/non-update text. I was in panic until I saw the past revisions area. Thank you for this feature!
this is great. i won’t worry next time if ever i’ll accidentally delate a part of my blog entry or even the whole blog entry itself.
Am already using this feature in ma blog and have found this utility quite wonderful. It saves a lot of time and makes ma drafts look nice without much hassle. Thanks for that wonderful platform of blogs called WordPress.
Wow,
Cool.
Thanks.
At last, a blogging platform for ham-fisted computer illiterate people like me… Glad I moved, you keep making this better and better.
i don’t know where to start!
Great stuff! Thanks WP!
How about the ability to assign categories in bulk via the post manage screen..
that’s nice. keep it up.
That’s Good!!!
That is lovely, thanks WP : )
This is a great feature. One time late at night while writing up my latest entry on my blog, I accidentally deleted a portion of my text. At first I thought I’d have to write it all up from scratch until I recalled seeing this feature at the bottom of the page. Sure enough, the missing text was quickly found and all was good in the land.
So, thanks WP for incorporating this feature. It’s a gem.
Cool…..or…that’s..hot…kinda like ‘Tagged… …thanks so much for this!! It’s a great thing! LW : )
Cool Dude !! That’s Lovely
Thanks for this great blogging platform. It’s getting better and better. I really appreciate all your hard work on this. You’ve got a real fan here
You guys are awesome!
It’s great to see that you’re not sleeping under the work done, and still make improvements.
Keep it up!
Thanks!
this is usefull, no doubt!
good. Thanks. keep coming up with fresh toppings.
You stole my thoughts!
I was just wondering how to back up my pages and posts. What if some hacker manages to crack in and do some mischief! You saved my life.
Thank you word press for everything.
Savant
nice for ur info 🙂
It doesn’t seem that great right now, but when I accidentally delete a post it will be the greatest thing since individually sliced cheese
This must be a killer for your memory!!!! But it sure adds value to our sites. Thanks.
This feature has already saved my ass. 🙂 Thanks WordPress team!
This saved my butt on a mistake I made – WOW… very nice- Thanks
very useful! i revise a lot!
Wow this is so kewl like this is really help me in my everyday life cause thats really my problem!! THIS YEAR i mean REALLY
~Mikkeygirl
This is awesome, very helpful to keep track of what has been done. Thanks a lot
Another one star in our Sky…. Great to see it
This thing was really needed guys! Thanks once again.
the most useless feature I have ever witnessed
increases several times the size of any backup
You guys are so cool. WordPress rocks.
good
Its great i love it, i still want to ask for your help, still new in d system.
Cool, thanx!
Very Wiki of you. Good job.
Dude, that is awesome!
yea!! I am happy about that. Sometimes My computer messes up and still it saves my post!! Cool!
great tool, four tumb up for WP
Very, very cool!
Thanks a lot for the advances programing you´re up to.
One of the best updates, really! Thx!
It’s a great feature… sure backup sizes will increase… but it makes the application so much easier to use
wordpress rocks!!
yesss!.. it make all things easy.. It saves a lot of time and makes nice without much hassle. Thanks for WordPress.
good Job
Cool. Very nice.
Pretty colors? Ooooooh. I’m game, thanks!
That´s really important and relevant !!! Thanks
niffty!
Awesome! That’s so cool!
Post revisions turn the ‘oops’ moment to the ‘ooh-la-la’ moment!
Somebody is doing great thinking…
Congratulations & Thanks.
tHANKS A LOT FOR THIS FEATURE.
Awesome
Its really really great.
goooooooooood
i frequentely need this feature 😉
Cool feature, and it works great! Thanks!
That’s great! I remember the old days… Late at night, answering “Y” to the question “Are you sure you want to delete?” Then, awakening myself with a gasp….
nice..
Good work
thanks
This completely saved my bacon – keep these upgrades coming
Saved my butt from an accidental page deletion on the first day. Thank you!