I just want to know how can I remove post history? For example my post have 6 revision. But I want to remove 5 of them. They waste my disk usage. OK, I know maybe it is not too much. But if you think about total 10k post with 6 revision that makes 60k. Depends to your editing, it could be waste too much disk for sure. Actually it is not important either it waste too much disk or not. We should be able to delete post revisions anyway in my opinion.
I don’t believe that is that @bek is asking. He mentioned disk usage, hiding a revision doesn’t do that, it just removes it from the client view for non-staff users.
That being said, I don’t believe this would be possible without accessing the database.
Yes, you right. I don’t talking about hiding revisions, I want to remove them. Who actually need a dozen of revision all the time? Don’t you think this is waste of resources @codinghorror ?
Anyway, as I said before take it waste or not, we should be able to remove these revisions… If there is no feature request like this, let me make one here
(Forgive me if I say something rude, I’m not native speaker)
And that’s one reason why automatic three years bumping is… perhaps not that good idea?
And if someone with strong enough tools wants move this to somewhere else and close this topic, it is just fine for me (and I know you guys don’t need my permission for anything that is just polite’ish way to tell moderators that maybe we are at off topic now)
Maybe auto delete threads after x years without a reply jk😂 This is still the one persistent view on forums i will always, always disagree with.
In general use of web forums, I have found over the years soo many solutions from very old threads (and very old blog posts for that matter) but also a lot of useless bloat and dead ends within those threads…where users and mods complain about bumping and/or not using search, rather than keeping up the quality of the thread or directing it on topic.
We should welcome discourse, if the thread is not relevant, it will fall into oblivion naturally.
Oops Edit:
Regarding the original question, for anyone else who comes to this thread via search: Maybe there is, or could be, a plugin to deal with that. (Keep only the last x revisions) or an official setting within admin panel to keep only a max # of revisions. Or, to delete revisions older than x days.
If this feature is important, it may probably see the light in future. We’ll see.