Title: Disable autosave?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Disable autosave?

 *  [danielwestman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielwestman/)
 * (@danielwestman)
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-autosave/)
 * Since I upgraded to 2.5.1 my autosave has been screwed up.
    It autosaves each
   and every second and slows down the internet like hell.
 * How do I disable the autosave function when writing new posts?

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 *  [Graham Smith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imjustcreative/)
 * (@imjustcreative)
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-autosave/#post-752378)
 * This is a common problem that is still causing me huge problems, there is a thread
   here that you might want to add this post to rather than create more and more
   posts on the same subject.
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/172302/page/2?replies=31#post-746691](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/172302/page/2?replies=31#post-746691)
 * But I have exactly the same problem, I have posted my findings on the post below
   just this morning.
 *  [Graham Smith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imjustcreative/)
 * (@imjustcreative)
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-autosave/#post-752381)
 * Not being a coder, I decided to take a crack myself. I think I have found a make
   do hack, until it can be solved properly.
 * Edit your ‘autosave.js’ file which can be found in ‘WP-includes’>’JS’>’autosave.
   js’
 * There are some values on line 5-7:
 *     ```
       jQuery(function($) {
       	autosaveLast = $('#post #title').val()+$('#post #content').val();
       	autosavePeriodical = $.schedule({time: autosaveL10n.autosaveInterval * 1000, func: function() { autosave(); }, repeat: true, protect: true});
       ```
   
 * All i did was take a guess and increase these values to some silly high number.
 * So far, after creating a post and manually saving it, the autosave has not kicked
   in. This giving me time to actually write a post etc.
 * Im not too sure what these values equate to in time wise, milliseconds etc, but
   it appears to work.
 * You could try removing the complete ‘autosave.js’ file and see what happens, 
   I may try that later. Just back it up.
 * Hope that helps for the time being.
 * [sig moderated]
 *  [lateefx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lateefx/)
 * (@lateefx)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-autosave/#post-752576)
 * Guys…just save yourselves A LOT of time and Install this plugin…this is absolutely
   brilliant and will END this ANNOYING AUTOSAVE FEATURE.
 * [http://www.untwistedvortex.com/2008/06/27/adjust-wordpress-autosave-or-disable-it-completely](http://www.untwistedvortex.com/2008/06/27/adjust-wordpress-autosave-or-disable-it-completely)
 *  [exper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/exper/)
 * (@exper)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-autosave/#post-752584)
 * That’s good and helped me to resolve the Revisions problem too.
 * I’ve prepared a plugin version out of it:
    [http://exper.3drecursions.com/2008/07/24/wordpress-revisions-and-autosave-problem/](http://exper.3drecursions.com/2008/07/24/wordpress-revisions-and-autosave-problem/)
   download it at the end of the post.
 *  [exper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/exper/)
 * (@exper)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-autosave/#post-752585)
 * I’ve created three plugins using the solutions I previously reported:
    [Disable Revisions and Autosave plugins](http://exper.3drecursions.com/2008/07/25/disable-revisions-and-autosave-plugin/)
 *  [hakan_](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hakan_/)
 * (@hakan_)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-autosave/#post-752605)
 * remove the `wp_enqueue_script('autosave');` line on your post-new.php (which 
   is located in wp-admin folder) and your posts will not be autosaved anymore.

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## Tags

 * [autosave](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/autosave/)

 * In: [Requests and Feedback](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback/)
 * 6 replies
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 * Last activity: [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-autosave/#post-752605)
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