A cool but easy-to-miss feature in Wordpress 2.6 and above is post revisions. If you've edited a post but wish you hadn't, you have an automatically-generated series of previous versions saved in WordPress, which you can roll back to at the click of a button.

In WP2.6.x the Post Revisions channel is minimised at the bottom of the edit page. In WP2.7 by default, it's right there in the middle of the edit page: if you can't see it, click "screen options" from the top and make sure you haven't hidden it. Both show you a list of previous saves and autosaves: click the one you want to look at, and you can then save it as the live version of the post.

If you're not sure which version you want, you can also compare revisions: click on one of the options in your Post Revisions list, and on the next screen you can choose another post to compare it to:

And bizarrely, it's possible to compare a version with itself, with rather cool results.

Tags: edit post, undo edit, WordPress

Posted by Sue on November 26, 2008 in WordPress.