Autosave revisions: recover & increase

  • OMG, what’s up with the autosaves? Are there really only 2, and no history? And they delete/replace every few minutes? And if you choose the wrong one the other is gone forever? What kind of thin protection is that?

    I was working away, and my browser crashed. Upon page reload 2 hours of work was gone, including painstakingly drafted text. I went to revisions and there’s only two. One appears to have the text I was scared got deleted, but the restore button was greyed out there. The other looked about the same, but it’s late and I didn’t look carefully. It took me back even further. Ouch. I went back to revisions and now that one and a blank one are all I see!

    Is there any way, including difficult technical means, to recover the lost work?

    How can I get a good system of autosaves that saves frequently at the intervals I set, and retains a deep revision history?

    I’ve looked around, and I find it astonishing that I can’t even find a popular plugin that does this, while I would imagine it should be a default option in WordPress.

    Thanks

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  • Are you sure that you are not using a revision control plugin? WordPress by default doesn’t limit the number of versions saved in the database – auto or manually saved.

    Thread Starter David4321

    (@david4321)

    No plugin, maybe I don’t know how to find them. Where should the full history be by default, how can I access it? And where would I edit the settings of the default setup if it’s there?

    Thread Starter David4321

    (@david4321)

    No plugin, maybe I don’t know how to find them. Where should the full history be by default, how can I access it? And where would I edit the settings of the default setup if it’s there?

    Thread Starter David4321

    (@david4321)

    There was no plugin, maybe I don’t know how to find the history. Where should the full history be by default, how can I access it? And where would I edit the default settings for revisions if they’re there?

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