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1. Dang Yankee
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   When editing posts, the autosave feature saves the changes every few seconds. Whenever this happens, the window automatically scrolls to the top and I lose the place where I am editing. How can I turn off this feature and do only manual saves? It's very cumbersome editing posts the way it's currently set up.

2. Shane G
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi,

   Check with these steps:

   1) Open your wp-admin/post.php file and wp-admin/post-new.php files.
   2) You will find this line of code there:

   wp_enqueue_script('autosave');

   3) Add // to the beginning of this code.

   The autosave option will be disabled for your existing and new posts.

   Thanks,

   Shane G.

3. Dang Yankee
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Worked like a charm! Thanks, Shane.

4. speerga
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Is there any command or coding or whatever that could be inserted into wp-config.php to do this? It seems to me upgrading to a new version of wp would mean having to re-edit the post.php and post-new.php files every time.

   Of course, a great solution would be if the wp devs would recognize many folks would like to turn off autosave completely and give us that option.

5. youngsmith
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I'm having the same problem since upgrading to 2.8.4 however I don't want to turn it off - just slow it down.
   And why does it have to jump to the top? Auto-save without re-loading the text? The interuptions are impossible!
   Thanks

6. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Modify_AutoSave_Interval

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cms-post-control/

7. youngsmith
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks for the quick response Michael,
   The 1st link is unclear as to which file should be modified - and is it adding the line or changing 60 to 120?

   I did run across the setting in wp-settings.php line 527 & changed it to 600. No problems now - though not really getting a chance to autosave.

   Is it possible to fix the Top-Of-Page reload after auto-save???

8. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   The 1st link is unclear as to which file should be modified

   That link is about "Editing wp-config.php" so edit wp-config.php.

   Modifying core files such as wp-settings.php is not recommended.

9. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Is it possible to fix the Top-Of-Page reload after auto-save???

   That really warrants a new topic.

10. christernyc
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    I've tried all the suggestions mentioned above and they didn't work

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