Daily Tip: Customize WordPress Autosave Interval and Post Revisions in WP-Config

Did you know that you can change the settings for post revisions and WordPress’ autosaving of posts within your wp-config.php file? Who really needs a million post revisions anyway? This will help you to cut down on how much is stored in your database. Below are examples for editing your wp-config.php file to change the number of post revisions stored in your database or completely disable them, as well as change how often your posts autosave.

define('AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL', 120 );  // seconds (default is 60)
define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', false ); // disable post revisions
define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', 3); // alter number of post revisions kept.

Source: Dave Redfern

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