Name WordPress Revisions

[Fabio]

Hi there,
I keep testing new versions of my page to see which one performs better and it would be really useful if I could assign a name to old revisions, like

18 August 2013 - Title on top, link at the bottom
19 December 2013 - Linked photos
etc.

So that after I can always go back to the best version quickly. Now instead I need to waste a lot of time digging inside hundreds of revisions to find the good one.

Any idea?
Thanks
Fabio

[Summer]

Interesting. My initial thought is that you couldn't with the default behavior, since the revision has the same title/slug as the published item.

But whether or not you could intentionally name a specific revision and save it, that's an interesting reason to use them. I wonder if someone has come up with a plugin for that yet.

Me, I hate revisions, turn them off on all my sites unless a client needs them, and even then I convince them that to limit them to 5 or 10 revs will keep their database response time snappy.

Hundreds of revisions per page? My friend, you are obsessive beyond measure 🙂

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[Fabio]

ahahahah
I am obsessive but not that much!

It's not that I have 100 different versions of the same page (maybe 2-3 and just for some) the problem is that there are hundreds of autosave and each time I edit some small things it creates a new autosave, so it becomes tough to dig in and find the one I need!

I also thought this would be a great idea for a plugin, even a paid one, I would be the first customer.

[Summer]

I actually set my autosave to 30 minutes to avoid those (sometimes 15min), then hit "Save" when I think I need to.

Put

define('AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL', 1800);
define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', 5);

in your wp-config, and adjust to your own comfort level.

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[songdogtech]

This hasn't been updated in awhile, but has more features than just naming a revison: http://wordpress.org/plugins/post-revision-display/

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