Skip Identical Revisions

Disables saving a post revision if the title, content and excerpt fields are all unmodified.

Author:John B. Fakorede (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:2.6.0
WordPress version tested:3.4.2
Plugin version:1.1
Added to WordPress repository:10-11-2011
Last updated:25-11-2012
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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Plugin URI:http://studioanino.com/
Total downloads:688
Active installs:30+
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Disables saving a post revision if the title, content and excerpt fields are all unmodified. This helps prevent database bloat and needless overwriting of important revisions.

No configuration needed, no UI and there are no plugin options to bother with. It can also be installed as a must-use plugin (mu-plugins directory).

Known Issue

Works best in HTML editor mode or, if in visual editor mode, new content is created from scratch in WordPress. When copying and pasting external content with extensive and poorly-indented HTML markup, underlying TinyMCE formatting can be uneven, so revisions could be saved even when content has not been modified.

To-dos

  • Add revision-related message to save notification.
  • Workaround for visual editor auto-formatting when saving poorly indented, heavily marked-up content.