[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     
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Changes (by chipbennett):

 * cc: chip@… (added)


Comment:

 No more than 10, by default.

 Who, honestly, has made use of any post revision older than 10? (Show of
 hands? Anyone? Beuller? Beuller? Beuller...?) And if you have done so, how
 often? Several times? A few times? Just once?

 Has any user testing been done on this feature, or are use cases just
 guessed/assumed?

 IMHO, the database bloat caused by unlimited post revisions *far*
 outweighs any potential benefit provided by post revisions. (Of course, I
 don't see much benefit to them at all, which is why I've disabled them.)

 And whatever the case, +1 for the assertion that this setting *absolutely*
 needs to be exposed in the UI, and not dependent upon a wp-config setting.

 Need to clear some UI bloat in order to accommodate Post Revision
 settings? How about removing this, in its entirety:


 {{{
 "Press This

 Press This is a bookmarklet: a little app that runs in your browser and
 lets you grab bits of the web.

 Use Press This to clip text, images and videos from any web page. Then
 edit and add more straight from Press This before you save or publish it
 in a post on your site.

 Drag-and-drop the following link to your bookmarks bar or right click it
 and add it to your favorites for a posting shortcut.

 Press This"
 }}}


 (Seeing as how not a single bit of that is a *setting* in the first
 place.)

 And note also that what immediately follows the above, will soon be gone
 in its entirety as well, when post-by-email becomes a core plugin:


 {{{
 "Post via e-mail

 To post to WordPress by e-mail you must set up a secret e-mail account
 with POP3 access. Any mail received at this address will be posted, so
 it’s a good idea to keep this address very secret. Here are three random
 strings you could use: 9Ldsq1DD, 1rXMTCZt, rkclP9rJ.

 Mail Server      Port
 Login Name
 Password
 Default Mail Category   "
 }}}


 So, that's about half of the current content of the options-writing.php
 page. Surely that will free up enough room for two post revisions options
 (enable/disable, and # revisions).

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