[wp-testers] Post Revisions

[Kirk M]

I'll add a vote for both selective deleting of revisions and an option 
for specifying a limit to the number of revisions stored.
Excellent new feature folks!

ProDevStudio wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> First of all BIG thumbs up to everyone developing core WordPress.
>
> Like Peter Westwood said I would like to see additional features that would
> allow me as Web Developer to get content from say group of volunteers and
> have an Editor to approve a version before it goes live for general public.
>
> Like many other people already mentioning on this, as a site admin I would
> want to be able to specify how many copy of the revision are stored in the
> database. and also selectively delete completely (hard delete -- another
> word no going back) certain version.
>
> Also perhaps an option to lock down current public version so no update can
> be done to it unless you create a new revision. This probably already exist,
> so correct me if I am behind on this.
>
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Azizur Rahman
> www.cgandc.net
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Peter Westwood<peter.westwood at ftwr.co.uk>
> wrote:
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>> Michael D Adams wrote:
>> | The post/page revisions feature is more or less feature complete now.
>> |
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>> Brilliant. Well done. Thank You!
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>>
>> | Can people poke at it and see what bugs/inconsistencies there are?  How
>> | does the UI feel?  What's missing?  What shouldn't be there?  That sort
>> | of thing.
>> |
>> | For those of you who haven't seen it yet, on posts and pages that you've
>> | saved more than once, there should be a new box: "Post/Page Revisions".
>> | It shows you the history of the post and lets you look at each revision
>> | and compare any two revisions.
>> |
>> | It store a revision every time you click "Save" or "Publish".  Only the
>> | most recent autosave is stored.
>> |
>> | Oh, and autosave is now enabled for all posts/pages, not just drafts.
>> |
>>
>> It all looks very useful and intuitive.
>>
>> I think we need to make the existence of the revisions more prominent -
>> for me having them down the bottom of the page below the fold makes them
>> hard to find.
>>
>> Maybe a link in the quicklinks list to the revisions for this post.
>>
>> I haven't had a chance to dig into the code but do the post revsions
>> support the following use cases:
>>
>> 1) Contributor updating a post which has been published by an editor
>> without the changes going live before an editor has reviewed them.
>>
>> 2) The ability to pin the public version of a post/page on an old
>> revision to allow for the generation of new content without it going live.
>>
>> 3) A way to "one-click" make live a number of changed pages which have
>> been generated by (2).
>>
>> It would be good to see these in the core to allow for CMS style usecases.
>>
>> westi
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>> Peter Westwood
>> http://blog.ftwr.co.uk | http://westi.wordpress.com
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