[wp-hackers] Revision Control in Post?

[Paul Menard]

Ben,

I'll offer my version of the Blicki plugin if you would like to  
review. As I mentioned previous in this thread it's somewhat based on  
the Blicki and wp-versioining plugins. Once important differece is my  
version uses the wp_posts table not a new table. When the 'save_post'  
is executed the plugin will simply capture the post information and  
INSERT a new record into the wp_posts table. The post_type is set as  
'_versioning'. Also a postmeta record is added for this newly inserted  
posts. The postmeta value contains the version number

Under the Post/Page editor you will see something similar to the  
following section http://screencast.com/t/0vgz1w9kX

The user can click on the 'View Revision' link under the item and see  
the themed output in it's orignal format. Also, the user can click the  
'Load this Revision in Editor'. This will copy the post_content  
information and reload the editor page. No DB information is  
manipulated for this action. In other words the plugin is not  
attempting to 'rollback' or switch out the versions. At this point if  
the user saves the reload content it simply creates the next version.

Simple enough.

Things I need sot add are copy all wp_post fields like Title, Excerpt,  
etc. The plugin only reloads the post_content field.

I'm also working on a Revision tool for attachments. Mostly this is  
for my clients who post revised PDF documents etc. They want the  
ability to uplaod the new version but not change the Page links.

I'm making my beta version of the plugiin available for use or review.  
I'll be posting it to the official plugin repository in the coming  
week. Though if WP 2.6 is coming with Versioning built-in what is the  
point really.

http://www.codehooligans.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Revisions-v0.9beta_20080316.zip

Paul Menard



On Mar 19, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) wrote:

> Andy Skelton wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Akeda Bagus <gedex.gsoc at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there any plugin for revision control in a page? Drupal and  
>>> Wikimedia
>>> have such system, so author can revert to some version or show the  
>>> diff. Is
>>> it ok to propose this system for GSoC 2008?
>>>
> I'm trying to implement something like this. Thinking the way to  
> start is have the original saved with data/time appended to slug  
> when the new version is published.
>
>> Only one thing comes to mind:
>> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/blicki/
>>
> Sadly, there's zero documentation for this. Two months ago MichealH  
> reported "Don't know about the rollback ability, but last I checked  
> it does keep revisions in the database. It's just not a completed  
> plugin, as far as I know."
> And he also wrote "there was a push to use that plugin, in  
> conjunction with WordPress, to replace the Mediawiki engine used for  
> Codex. But, Barry was able to get Codex Mediawiki upgraded recently,  
> so I'd guess not much more work will be done to that plugin." so I  
> guess "Bliki" has been orphaned.
>
> ben
>
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Paul Menard
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