n1spirit

I agree; it is an annoying problem and I first began experiencing it when I upgraded to 2.8.0 (or thereabouts). Upon installation of the immediate update folling that installation it seems to go away for a short while but I’ve since updated again and the problem is back. I use MSIE 8 on a Vista OS. Have basically begun doing all of my coding in Notepad to avoid the annoyance of this problem and just do a cut and paste once my changes are thought to be complete.

But 2.8.4 is now out (and appears to include a fix for a rather unsettling security oversight) so perhaps the problem will again go away today. I’m not holding my breath.

(Don’t misunderstand… I’m thankful to the programmers for providing us with this software for blogging. It’s just a little annoying when we have to expend unscheduled time to fix an oversight — or worse yet, have to live with it until a fix is provided.)

Directed to gappiah: THANKS for posting your solution. After upgrading to version 2.8 of WordPress I noticed that the post revisions were again being retained. I had previously installed WP-CMS Post Control to turn them off and somehow the parameter had been changed back to the “WordPress Default” (of retaining them) after the upgrade. However, by including one of the ‘define’ lines you’ve described (see below for reference) I was able to make use of all of the other uses of WP-CMS Post Control [AND] adjust my wp-config.php file to retain 2 revisions for each post, which I may yet revise but still on the fence about.

define(‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’,2); // only keep last 2 revisions

So again, thanks for posting the solution as well as the many different alternatives. Much appreciated, Michael