I recorded each step as I tried various solutions. Here’s what happened.
(I used WP-Optimized plug-in to check DB; pageMash plug-in to show leftover items)


/** REPORT: Ran BDR Removed 1 revision
*Ran this. Found and removed 145 rows
**/
DELETE a,b,c FROM wp_posts a
LEFT JOIN wp_term_relationships b ON (a.ID = b.object_id)
LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta c ON (a.ID = c.post_id)
WHERE a.post_name REGEXP '^[0-9]{1,}-autosave$' AND (post_status='inherit') AND ( post_type= 'page' OR post_type='post' )

/*RESULT*/
/* 298 rows deleted
*
*WP-Optimize shows
*wp_postmeta 68.781 Kb Need to Optimize 3.609 Kb
*wp_posts 1985.453 Kb Need to Optimize 1811.711 Kb
*pageMash only shows one pagem per entry
*end REPORT */


Thoughts?

Mark

It would be nice if you could start the discussion in the forum. My Italian is not good and you could do a better job at summerizing how we got to the discussion.
Then we could join in.

Thanks,
Mark,

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-draft-1

http://forum.bytesforall.com/showthread.php?t=7100&highlight=Auto+Draft

My “problem” record has

post_status : “auto-draft”
post_parent :0
post_type : “post”
post_name : “” (empty string)

Nothing much else that distinguishes it from the other records. The auto saving and revisions seem to be working fine with no problems.

I’m using 3.3.1.
Since my client and I are both new to WP (I was a joomla user for a long time) and she is an author, there are updates, revisions, corrections made to pages several times a day by both of us.

I didn’t notice anything until I installed the WP pageMash
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pagemash/
(and/or) the CMS Tree-Page-View
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cms-tree-page-view/
plug-ins.

Both plug-ins show pages/posts plus their revisions and autosaves. Even after running BRD I had a long list so that’s why I came here and started discussing autosaves too.

Mark

It is the autosaves that’s driving me nuts. I use tha pagemash plug-in to organise pages and it shows all pages PLUS their autosaves.

Aparently autosave is not directly related to revision. If editing a page’s revision for longer than xx seconds/minutes WP creates an autosave of that revision.

In just creating a page or post, WP autosaves every xx seconds/minutes so if you spend a long time WP has created several copies of the post without deleting the previous ones.

There is a way to a) limit the number of revisions and b) the interval WP creates an autosave. Add these 2 define statements in wp-config.php above the line ‘That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging’. Like this

define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', 3); // max number of post revisions.

/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */


What I’d like BRD to be able to do is delete autosaves and revisions. If it could also add the fix to wp-config that would be nice. It would then be a ‘run once and delete’ type plug-in though:-)

Mark