[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #13975: Limit default number of revision

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#13975: Limit default number of revision
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 Reporter:  scribu       |       Owner:                       
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new                  
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Future Release       
Component:  Revisions    |     Version:                       
 Severity:  normal       |    Keywords:  has-patch 2nd-opinion
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Changes (by gazouteast):

 * cc: gazouteast (added)


Comment:

 Should the UI for enable/disable/quantity of revisions not actually be on
 a post by post basis anyway?

 And, if you're looking for real estate to dump it into, why not alongside
 the drop down for author on the page/post editor screen - seems far more
 logical to me.

 Regardless of how or where the script is being used, there will be one of
 two scenarios most of the time -
 A. most articles will need either some or full revision control, but some
 will need none.  (Most likely scenario for corporates)
 B. most articles will need zero revision control, but a few will need
 either a couple of revisions "just in case" or will need all revisions to
 be available.  (Most likely for the majority of installs).

 It therefore makes sense for revision control to be at a per post/page
 level, not a global buried in wp-config.  However, within wp-config, for
 server resource management purposes ONLY (!) should be an over-riding
 global_max_revisions() setting.

 Example - This is needed by small blog farms etc on shared servers - e.g.
 a site for a club or association with a couple of dozen highly non-
 programming members (e.g. a blue-rinse brigade knitting club sharing
 patterns and photos of what they knitted).  The super admin obviously does
 not want the entire hosting account getting suspended because of one
 member posting twenty times a day and creating 20-30 revisions for each
 post (change tags, category, title, add more images, smilies, etc etc) -
 it happens, you know it does, go on, admit you do.  Seniors who catch the
 blogging bug have got 18 hours a day to fritter away on such usage - no
 way a single admin could keep up with an entire gaggle of grannies
 "bloggiping" together via comments and the like.

 Gaz

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