Enabling revisions in WordPress is a useful way to retrace your steps and travel back in time to an earlier version of your content. This is a quick walkthrough on how to enable and use the core revision functionality in WordPress. Depending on your host and how you install WordPress, revisions may already be enabled by default. If not, they can be turned on by adding or changing a line in your site’s wp-config.php file. With revisions enabled, each time a change is made to a post, an additional row is inserted in the WordPress database, wp_post table with a […]
A Full Look at Draft, Version Control for Writers
Seamless and intelligent collaboration and version control for writers is hard to come by – even with WordPress 3.5 it’s cumbersome and anything but elegant. Sure, with the next release of 3.6 we’re going to see some dramatic changes that will up the collaboration features greatly and that’s going to help a lot but I think it might be a good idea to look at what Draft is doing and see how they have created a fully-featured (and trim) solution that’s got me thinking big. I got a sweet email a few hours ago from the founder citing the already-overwhelmingly […]
New UI Look for Post Revisions in 3.6
Apparently after 2 office hours a consensus has been reached in terms of the new look of post revisions, as reported by Erick Hitter. It’s neat to see the slider with previous / next coming into play as this is a much different approach than our current implementation. They are still working on the UI for comparing two different revisions:
The WordPress Weekend Roundup
Whew. Another week, come and gone. It’s getting faster it seems, right? I mean, it’s already February! Where did the first month go and how are we almost half-way through the second? There have been a lot of great conversations and great content being shared all over the place and we couldn’t possibly have gotten to it all – so in our typical fashion, here’s our Weekend Roundup:
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