[wp-hackers] Autosave

[Jeff Minard]

Brad Fults wrote:
> On 1/2/06, Matt Mullenweg <m at mullenweg.com> wrote:
> 
>>I'm hesitant to put auto-saves or emergency recovery info in the posts
>>table. The publishing model of WP is very different from Gmail. In Gmail
>>you are composing until it is sent, then it's gone forever. In WordPress
>>you may edit something constantly.
> 
> 
> Agreed, it should be put in the DB as a user option which will hold
> only one lost post at a time.

I can't see this being good. I have several drafts right now. Which one 
gets the autosave? Do I have to *pick* which article I choose to be safe 
with? What a hassel! Is it a rotating basis? What if I am editing two 
articles at once? What if (yes, it happens) I have a shared account and 
we're both editing at the same time? Who's piece gets the autosave space?

This idea of a single "bucket" was discussed futher up in the thread.




Matt, you raise an excellent point about not autosaving a 
'published'/'static' state post. That makes sense -- so saving that info 
serialized into a post meta field works nicely. When it's a draft, skip 
the overhead and just put the autosave data right into the table (or 
update if that post has an id already.)