Eliminate the post of historical WordPress (Post Revision)

With the release of WordPress 2.6, the version before the current version available, in my view, the best content manager for the administration of a log, first appeared in the feature known as English “Post Revision”, or in Spanish as “Historic WordPress”, or “History of Post,” which automatically stored in a copy of the article we were writing for that in case of changes, we could see earlier versions …

I personally never used this feature, but I never bother to disable it, why were created more than three revisions per article he wrote, accumulate in the database without my blog that I would be useful, and as I read do nothing more than to return to WordPress when the slow accumulation of these revisions is already too …

So now had two problems because if you do not disable this function would continue to accrue for my articles and reviews for more than disable it and had accumulated months of revisions in my database, and WordPress does not provide any function for … Search for elimination Internet finished in the article “How to Delete Existing Stored Revisions WordPress Post / Saved” published in “My Digital Life” which covered my problem …

Before you remove the historic post of WordPress what we should do is to disable this feature so it does not continue accumulating them once removed … To do this, see the “Off the historic post in WordPress 2.6″ published by Andres Nieto in which we stated that we will edit the file “wp-config.php” and add the following line of code …

define ( ‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, false);

In this way WordPress does not create further revisions to our products and we can move on to the next step which will remove all revisions stored in the database … For this we need to enter through phpMyAdmin or whatever it is that we are using that allows us to, in the database of our WordPress, run the following line …

DELETE FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = “revision”

If we do not know how to use phpMyAdmin or not we have the most remote and enter the same can use the WordPress plugin “WP-DBManager” that allows us to run queries to our database from the Admin Panel of our blog … < >

We no longer have the most historical revisions and my database is free of them … As a suggestion, as it always says, is to make a backup of our database before proceeding, and I do not want to forget to clarify that the same can be applied in WordPress 2.7 or newer Greetings … …