Revisions weird.

  • Resolved coachcs

    (@coachcs)


    9 years, 4 months ago

    Hi everybody,

    I lost the whole content of a page I was working on for hours. First I wasn’t afraid, since I knew WP has a powerful revision function I used several times in the past.

    The more I was shocked when I found that this particular page had no revision function at all. I checked some older pages in my installation and some of them have the revision function and some have not.

    Any new page I create, is missing it.

    No, it’s not about the Screen Option Settings. The pages that miss the revision just do not have an according checkbox in the Screen Option Settings.

    I looked around in this forum and did anything I could spot.

    I did this one:

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F

    I did the wp-config thing and put

    define(‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, true)

    in there.

    Deactivated all plugins.

    Nothing worked.

    How can I proceed?

    Any help appreciated, thanks in advance.

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    – Try switching to the unedited default Twenty Fifteen theme WITH ALL plugins deactivated for a moment using the WP dashboard to rule out any theme-specific issue (theme functions can interfere like plugins). If you don’t have access to your admin area, use FTP or whatever file management application your host provides. Navigate to /wp-content/themes/ and switch to the default theme by renaming your current theme’s folder by adding “-old” to the end of the folder name. Alternately, you can remove other themes except the default theme. That will force your site to use it.

    Thread Starter coachcs

    (@coachcs)

    Thank you Tara,

    I followed your instructions, but that did not bring any changes.

    Any more suggestions?

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    – try MANUAL updating. Download a fresh copy of the WordPress .zip file to your computer, unzip it, and use that to copy up all files and folders EXCEPT the wp-config.php file and the /wp-content/ directory. You may need to delete the old copies of files & folder on your server before uploading the new ones. Read the Manual Update directions first.
    – If you haven’t already done, always backup everything (including your database) before doing any actions, just in case something really goes wrong.

    Thread Starter coachcs

    (@coachcs)

    Thank you, Tara.

    I did that but it changed nothing.

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    Is the main issue is still that no post revions are saved?

    I did the wp-config thing and put

    define(‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, true)

    Try removing that. You actually don’t need that line, because that’s the WP default behavior.

    Thread Starter coachcs

    (@coachcs)

    Yeah!

    That finally worked for me.

    Revisions are back again.

    Thank you very much, Tara for perfect support.

    Topic might be closed.

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    You are very welcome ??

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