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Limit WordPress Revsions In wp-config – Revision Control Speeds Up Database | WP Learning Lab

define( ‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, X );

In this tutorial you will learn about the WordPress revision control system (also known as WordPress version control). This system keeps WordPress page revisions and WordPress post revisions incase you want to revert back to them in the future.

The way it works is every time you make a change to a WordPress page or post and save it WordPress creates a new revision in the database. If you create a lot of revisions for a lot of pages and posts, keeping those extra revisions can consume A LOT of database space and resources. This can slow down your site substantially.

So I recommend that you use a WordPress revisions plugin to WordPress limit revisions. Or add the following code right to your wp-config.php file:

define( ‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, X );

All you have to do is paste that into wp-config.php above where it says “Stop Editing, Happy Blogging!”. Replace the X with the number of revisions you want to keep, usually 3 is a good number. Then save the wp-config.php file.

All of the revisions will still be there for each post, but the next time you save the post, all but the most recent 3 revisions will be removed.

By putting that code into the wp-config.php file you can avoid using a revision control plugin or a post revisions plugin.

I highly recommend you limit the number of post revisions to keep your database optimized. With this method you don’t WordPress edit revisions, you simply eliminate revisions.

I hope this information helps you! If you have any questions leave a comment below or ping me @WPLearningLab on Twitter.

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