[Resolved] Post revisions

[Bernhard]

Hi,
I don’t see the post revisions anymore.
In the last weeks I was used to receive an alert, when I updated a post saying that there is a different versions available.
Now the alert is gone, but I see no more the number of revisions in the WP editor and I find no way how to access them.
WP Fastest Cache says that the revisions are in the database.

[Tom]

Hi there,

Perhaps you installed a plugin that’s hiding them? I’m not really sure what would cause them to go away.

Perhaps this will help?: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-happened-to-revisions/

[Bernhard]

I’ve checked this already but did not help. I actually don’t know when the revisions disappeared from the editor because I usually don’t need them. It was only because I was searching the versions of a page.
The only major change I made in the last month was to test Gutenberg disabling Classic Editor plugin – now active again, otherwise only updates of Autoptimize, Clearfy, GPP, Advanced Ads.

[Tom]

Classic editor is active? If so, do you see the revisions checkbox if you click the “Screen Options” tab at the top right of the page?

[Bernhard]

Hi Tom,
yes, Classic editor is active. I don’t see the checkbox for revisions. There are two checkboxes for sections.

[Tom]

Just checked it out in the Gutenberg editor: https://www.screencast.com/t/yLRbwG32

In the Classic Editor, it should be a metabox: https://www.screencast.com/t/BtZvP3EFlqnJ

[Bernhard]

It’s not there. Screenshot
I’ve sent an invitation to support@ so you can have a look into it.

[Tom]

Hmm, this isn’t really something I can debug in your Dashboard.

Are you sure revisions are turned on if the first place? They might be disabled by a plugin you’re using, or in your wp-config.php file.

Does the post or page you’re checking have revisions? What if you create a new page and make 4-5 changes (saving after each one)?

[Bernhard]

Hi Tom,
wp fastest cache says that revisions are there. I actually changed some pages but I can’t see the revisions.
In one case after an update I got the message there is another version and when I wanted to see it the system restored it without displaying the versions before.
I have checked clearfy and there revisions are enabled.
I looked into the wp-config and found
define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', 5); which I cancelled but no change.

I looked in some threads and somebody recommends to re-install the actual wordpress version. Is this something I can do without risk?

[Tom]

You can re-install the WordPress files in “Dashboard > Updates”. However, I’m not sure that will actually do anything.

Sometimes, hosts will disable revisions to prevent large databases. Perhaps your host is doing that?

[Bernhard]

Hi Tom,
I struggled around some other hour and finally found out, that Clearfy was causing the issue.
The thing was, that I had not only to disable the plugins one by one, but each time save a change to a page because only after that the revisions appeared again.
Thank you for your support.

[Bernhard]

Webcraftic has now confirmed that this is a bug in Clearfy which will be solved with the next release 😛

[Tom]

Glad you got it figured out 🙂

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