Wordpress Autosave Feature
November 5, 2006 – 9:02 pm | by BillLast night, my power went out. It came back on a second later, but it was enough to destroy everything that I had done in the past hour. I had been working on a very long post in wordpress (the blogging platform I use) and when I started my computer back up everything was gone. I started kicking myself mentally, for the following reasons:
- My laptop was sitting right beside me with the browser open, unaffected by the power failure.
- I have a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) in my closet, not being used. I recently redid the carpet in my room, and neglected to plug the UPS back in, which would have given me enough time to save.
- Lack of an autosave feature in Wordpress.
I started to do some research into the possibility of a wordpress autosave feature. It seems that many people have the same problems that I’ve had. There is a plugin for Wordpress 1.5 called Twilight Autosave. I have been unable to find a plugin for Wordpress 2.0, but was told that Twilight Autosave works with the current verson of Wordpress. I installed the plugin and it is working fine for me, running Wordpress 2.0.4.
If you are lazy and don’t want to install the plugin, you can use a word document with autosave enabled, and then copy your post into Wordpress when you are done. The autosave feature will be built into Wordpress 2.1
For those who care, I will now be using my UPS with my desktop machine, and will be writing posts on my laptop computer with the Wordpress autosave plugin. I wrote this post to attempt to save some of you from the same mistakes that I made. I hope it works.