Comments on: WordPress Plugin – Post Revision Display

By: dnorman

dnorman — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:55:41 +0000

The links show up only if a user has permission to view revisions – I’m not sure what the lowest user role that allows that is, but I don’t believe the anonymous (i.e., non-user) account can see that. I’ve got no idea how to enable that…

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:29:50 +0000

Is it possible to have the links to the post revisions be available to users that are not logged in (e.g., the general public) instead of just the list?

Thanks

By: dnorman

dnorman — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:53:33 +0000

@thorswitch I’ve done some testing, and can’t reproduce the persistent-audit-trail-after-deactivating issue. When I deactivate the plugin, the audit trails on each post and page disappear immediately. I’m guessing it’s a caching issue – either through WP-Super-Cache or browser caching?

By: thorswitch

thorswitch — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:21:08 +0000

Thanks for the quick reply. I do have wp-super-cache on, so I emptied the cache and also flushed my browser cache to make sure the problem was there, and it didn’t change anything.

Here’s what’s happening currently. I deactivated the plugin, and the post revision dates are no longer showing up on the live versions of the pages. However, Even on posts I created after deactivating the plugin, the “-Post Revisions” link on the main menu for managing posts and pages is still there, and it is still tracking every change.

Just for a test, I reactivated the plugin briefly, and when it was activated, all of the revision dates were again displayed on the live pages. After deactivating it, it once again removed the revisions from the live page, but is still keeping track of changes.

So, the two main issues at the moment are that I need it to stop tracking the revisions until I’m ready to open up the site (I end up making a lot of edits to posts and pages as I try to figure out the best way for embedding media and arranging content – once I’m ready to open up, I won’t be doing that any more) and I also need to figure out how to remove the revisions dates it’s already tracked, so that when I do reactivate the plugin, I won’t end up with this massive list on my posts and pages.

Thanks again for any ideas you might have – I hope this maybe gives you some better information to work with. Let me know if you need to know anything else

Kriselda

By: dnorman

dnorman — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:07:16 +0000

@kriselda – I’m not sure what’s going on – could it be a cache issue? are you using wp-super-cache? I haven’t seen the persistent audit trails after deactivation. I’ll take a look to see what I can find out! Glad you like the plugin, and I’m sorry it’s causing you some grief.

By: thorswitch

thorswitch — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:14:17 +0000

I tried to send this through your contact form, but I didn’t look like it went though, so please excuse me if you get the message twice

Hi! I installed your post revision display plugin, but need to temporarily deactivate it because I’m still trying to get all my pages and stuff working right – meaning I’m saving and resaving them quite frequently, leading to a long trail of revision links.

The problem I’ve run into, though, is that even after deactivating and deleting the plugin, the lists of the revisions are still showing up on the pages and posts, and I cannot figure out how to delete them. I even went in and deleted the “revision.php” file and that didn’t help.

I plan to reinstall it once I finish getting everything set up, but do you have any suggestions as to how I can remove it until I’m ready for it to track things?

Thanks for a great plugin – I love the idea!

kriselda

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:11:15 +0000

Wow, that’s a nice feature!

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:55:28 +0000

Wait a second…two posts from Brian Lamb today and you are authoring WordPress plugins? Damn this is a good day for the right Reverend.

Rock on, D’Arcy!

By: dnorman

dnorman — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:59:38 +0000

@boris – perhaps. I think the revisions stuff is still a bit fresh, so it’s likely to mature a bit. maybe a separate method ala get_post_ID() and the_post_ID() (or whatever) that returns rather than echoes…

@chris – it does keep each revision. If you have privs, you can see links to each one, and can even use a visual diff to compare them. Very cool stuff.

By: Chris L

Chris L — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:38:23 +0000

Nice. I’d never seen that function before! Too bad the system doesn’t keep copies of revisions so they could be viewed…