Developers added ‘auto save’ feature to WordPress in its version 2.1 and ever since then, it has become a permanent fixture in coming WordPress versions (even WordPress 2.7) . By default, wordpress ‘auto save’ saves your pages and posts after every 60 seconds, that is to say, after every 1 minute. This ’1 minute time’ is not suited to most of the bloggers who prefer an early ‘auto-save’ or ‘an auto-save’ after the normal time interval of 1 minute. Some think that it is quite imposssible to do so, but the good news is that it is possible and quite easy.
You can change the ‘auto-save’ time of wordpress blogs by your own time limit. This task invloves changin the configuration of AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL constant and replacing the given time interval by your time. The ‘AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL’ constant can be added in the wp-config.php configuration file, which located in the root directory of your blog. Use the following syntax to add or modify the auto-save interval:
define(’AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL’, 600);
The above code will instruct wordpress to auto save posts/pages after every 600 seconds that is, 10 minutes. This value can be changed to your own value which will be used to determine the ‘auto-save interval’ by the wordpress.
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thanks..it was helpful for my wordpress blog..
Very helpful! Thank you for sharing!
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Perfect!, just works awesome, and easy to do, im not a very experimented user, but with your tips, the site grows up.
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Aditya,
Thanks a lot. The WordPress 2.7 was killing me with the Auto SAVE. Every time I update my blog the post will lose some data due to the auto save. The problem was, the auto save was happening when I closing the window or logging off making the autosave doing half finished job.
Even WP 2.9 was giving me the same problem but to a smaller extend. Hope this will solve the problem.
-Neo
Always a pleasure to help you Neo.
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