{"id":4374,"date":"2019-01-16T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=4374"},"modified":"2019-01-19T18:32:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T23:32:59","slug":"wordpress-5-autosave-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=4374","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 5 AutoSave Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I upgraded to WordPress 5 back when it was still in preview, and wasn’t shocked to find some issues. When I would create a post, WordPress would go into an auto-saving loop. Now I like the idea of background saves to prevent data loss if by browser falls over … but the instant the auto-save would complete, another would kick off and the editor was basically unusable (copy content \/ refresh page \/ paste content \/ cross fingers that the auto-save loop didn’t happen that time). I tried setting the auto-refresh interval in the config file, but that had no impact. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the 5.0.0 release, I was dismayed to find the problem lingering but 0.0 releases usually have some quirks too. But two dot-dot releases later, and a lot of frustration that auto-save has caused waaaay more data loss in six months than years<\/em> worth of browser glitches ever managed, I started researching the problem to find a solution other than “wait for the next release to fix it”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I came across an issue on GitHub<\/a> which not only reports the same issue, but included a bit of code to add to the theme functions.php file:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

add_filter( 'block_editor_settings', 'jp_block_editor_settings', 10, 2 );\n\nfunction jp_block_editor_settings( $editor_settings, $post ) {\n\t$editor_settings['autosaveInterval'] = 2000; \/\/number of second [default value is 10]\n\n\treturn $editor_settings;\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
And my WordPress is usable again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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