calendo

The ill effects of an early autosave is you can’t undo it, can’t retrive anymore the copy you changed a moment ago and now wish to change back to its original.

Autosave kills the “undo” capabilites of Firefox. Once a page is saved, Firefox loses memory of your past changes.

Got it now?

Correct. I work on a professional site that features blog entries. Like every conscientious writer, I write things, polish them and sometime realize I’ve overdone the polish and lost the basic sense of a sentence.

But autosave wipes out the ability to undo in Firefox.

This is why in most applications autosave is off by default. You need to go into options to switch it on.

For me an uncontrollable autosave is a design flaw in 2.1, and I hope you will give users the option to turn it off, as well as set the time interval for saves, in future iterations.

For now I would like to go into the basic code, if I have to, and shut this puppy down.

Meanwhile, I love wp. Because of autosave, I have to write offline and then copy/paste copy in after the piece is more or less done (one never stops tweaking — at least control-freaks like myself don’t.) The downside is that by composing offline I lose the ability to see how the text is working with — or against — the pictures that I use to dress up the copy.

Can you help me out?

I do not like the autosave feature and would like some advice on how to turn it off.

I don’t want autosave to save changes I may not be sure of. Once the page saves, I lose the undo function in Firefox that allows me to reconsider and restore old versions.

How do I shut autosave off? Surely this is a feature we can opt out of.