How Do I Delete Unwanted Autosaves?

  • Resolved MikeHarrison

    (@mikeharrison)


    5 years, 7 months ago

    It’s good that there is an autosave feature. What’s not so good is that, once an autosave is created, and it is determined it is not needed, it seems it cannot be deleted.

    WHY is that? Why can’t there be a “Delete Autosave” button?

    Most annoying.

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  • You can delete all autosaves from the database by running the following MySQL query:

    DELETE FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = “revision” AND post_name LIKE “%autosave%”

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Install one of these plugins: wp-optimize or wp-sweep

    Both will let you delete those autosaves, along with other cruft that builds up in the database over time.

    Thread Starter MikeHarrison

    (@mikeharrison)

    Thank you, both!

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