Curated by Carsonified

Topics

Learn with Treehouse

Accessibility, CSS3, Design, Django, HTML & CSS, HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, NoSQL, PHP, Responsive Web Design, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Tools, UX, Version Control, WordPress, iOS and more

Article 11

How to Use WordPress Revisions to Go Back in Time

By @ryancarson

13 August 2009 | Category: Asides

Photo of black hole

If you've ever gotten your blog post overwritten by another author, you know how annoying it can be. Thankfully WordPress 2.6+ has a handy little feature called Revisions.

Here's how it works ...

Edit the post you’d like to restore to a previous version and scroll down to ‘Post Revisions’. Click on any of the past revisions (it doesn’t matter which one) …

Post Revisions screen in WordPress

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and choose the two versions you’d like to compare and click the ‘Compare Revisions’ button …

Compare Revisions button in WordPress

View the differences between the two revisions …

Screenshot of comparing the two versions

Scroll down the page and click ‘Restore’ on the correct version. Bam, you’re good to go.

Screenshot of the link to restore the right version

There is also a handy plugin to further control WordPress Revisions which allows you to set how many revisions are stored.

Follow @thinkvitamin on Twitter Please check out Treehouse

Other Posts You Might Find Interesting

  • Sorry - No Related Posts Found

Comments

  • http://www.shikebali.co.cc Shikeb Ali

    I loved your article, because now a days I’m working on my blog and this article will help me in future.

    I would love to see your articles in my blog too.

    Regards.

  • bus hire london

    Moscow: With military aircraft continuing to dominate foreign sales, not surprisingly Russia’s leading combat aircraft manufacturers Sukhoi and MiG are set to exhibit their latest models, the Su-35 Flanker and the MiG-35 Fulcrum-F multirole fighters at the MAKS-2009 air show in Russia.

    Hi i am ribeca from london. I like your blog.

    bus hire london

  • http://designeroutletuk.com Designerdeal

    I loved your article, because now a days I’m working on my blog and this article will help me in future.

  • http://www.pixelapes.com Alex Leonard

    You can also limit the number of post-revisions by adding a single line to your wp-config file:

    define(‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, 6);

    I’ve found myself doing this more and more often as I’ve never had the need to do more than go back one or two revisions (and that’s only happened once or twice) and not limiting the number of revisions does increase the size of your database an awful lot.

  • http://www.pixelapes.com Alex Leonard

    Oh by the way, either your Akismet is failing, you don’t have it installed, or perhaps you should consider moderating first time commenters? First three comments look pretty spammy. Feel free to delete this comment ;)

  • http://masud.atbhost.net Abdulla Heal Masud

    Nice articles, i am new on your blog. Hope that i can find many important articles in your blog.

  • http://cheapcoinsorter.blogspot.com/ coin sorter lei

    hope you dont mine me subscribing since, i am really finding ways to do the WP. for some reason i dont find it easy and this article taught me some of the questions i have in my mind.

  • Do you remember…

    …when Think Vitamin used to have useful articles? It wasn’t that long ago. Now we get cruft like this.
    “GET vs POST” article – wow, way to reproduce web basics 101.

    There is still some half decent content on here, so it hasn’t been bumped off my RSS just yet, but it’s getting very close.

  • http://shoppingare.blogspot.com/ Unique Jewelry – Body Jewelry – Diamond Jewelry – Peacock Ring

    so beautifull

  • http://indonesiabumiku.blogspot.com/ Kenali Dan Kunjungi Objek Wisata Di Pandeglang

    wow cooool

  • http://indonesiabumiku.blogspot.com/2009/08/pantai-tanjung-lesung-kenali-dan.html Kenali Dan Kunjungi Objek Wisata Di Pandeglang

    its so informatif

Badges for Treehouse

Treehouse

Learn iOS, Rails, CSS3, jQuery, Node.js, HTML5, UX and more in less than 8 minutes per day. New videos added regularly. Sign up today and get a free Web Design Toolkit.

Ads Via The Deck

Think Vitamin Radio
Episode #34: Amazon Fire and Responsive Roundtable

Check out our bi-weekly radio show. Covering the hot topics on the web.

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Download Podcast as mp3

Advisory Board

The Think Vitamin Advisory Board in place make sure that you receive the best content possible.