Autosave is the worst thing since auto update

  • Circuit Basics

    (@smithy468)


    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    Please add a button in the settings to disable the autosave “feature” in the post editor. On longer form posts, the auto save can take 5-10 minutes to finish saving. And it tries to run every couple of minutes or so. Even right after I click save manually. Sometimes it tries to save so much that it crashes my browser page and I lose my work. I have already lost about four hours of work from it stalling or crashing my browser page. Normal saving takes only 15 seconds so I know it’s not a server performance issue. I just want it gone, I don’t want to have to edit the code in PHP files to disable it. Just make an easy to access option to disable this please.

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  • Moderator threadi

    (@threadi)

    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    At first, I find it strange that saving takes so long. How long are these posts? In terms of word count, for example.

    There is a plugin here that should fulfill your request, but I haven’t tested it: https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-gutenberg-autosave/

    If you still want to have this as an option somewhere, you are welcome to submit it as a feature request to the Gutenberg team: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues

    Samuel O.

    (@wpcoworker)

    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    Alternatively if you are familiar with coding then you can also add below code snippet at the end in your theme’s functions.php file & you wont need a plugin.

    add_action( 'admin_init', 'disable_autosave' );
    function disable_autosave() {
    wp_deregister_script( 'autosave' );
    }

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