Enabling and Modifying WordPress Post Revisions Behavior

The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The default setting for `WP_POST_REVISIONS` is true, meaning that all changes/edits to content are saved in the database forever.

Saving all WordPress post revisions forever might sound good on the surface, but the database can quickly become cluttered. Over time, this can become a significant issue if lots of edits are made to site that has been up for a long time or if the site has many authors generating new posts and edits.

By default Pagely has opted to disable revisions unless they are needed by the user. To enable Page Revisions you can simply add the following line to your wp-config.php file within the Custom Constant Definitions section:

define( 'WP_POST_REVISIONS', 3 );

Note: If you made changes before the setting was enabled, you will not see any old changes you made. You will need to make edits and save a draft to see if the revisions are enabled. If you had stored revisions from a previous host they might show up after setting this.

If you are not familiar with sFTP access please read this article.