Recent Revisions v1.0
To install, download, no need to unzip just leave it as it is. Then from your WordPress administration page, click on Plugins -> Add New -> Upload -> Browse… When you have found the wp-plugin-recent-revisions.zip click OK and Install Now. From the Plugins Page “Activate Now” Then select Dashboard and ensure your RecentRevisions are visible by selecting “Recent Revisions” under Screen Options (top right corner)
The new widget will show up automatically on your dashboard (if it doesn’t – let me know!)
Why recent revisions…
I’ve been working on a new site for openXdata documentation – will be unleashed to the world shortly – and moving forward we’ll have a handful of us editing it. As I decided to misappropriate WordPress to make a website, we want to use WP’s revision control. Out of the box it seems to work great, although, I’ve only been testing so far so we’ll see what happens when we all try and use it for real. On each post you can easily see what revisions have been made and by who.
But we need some kind of overview screen of the recent revisions and I couldn’t find anything that gave me an overview of recent revisions for the admin interface, and not for the front end. I’d be delighted to be wrong as I’m not a great coder so please do comment with other suggestions.
In the absence of suggestions, I found Rick’s (http://rick.jinlabs.com/) dashboard widget for displaying recent posts but that still wasn’t ordering things how I wanted or giving me the revision author. So I stripped out the code I didn’t understand (I don’t really know php so I just decided to take out all the mysterious bits), and reworked the rest so it displayed a revision overview. Enjoy! Comments and Feedback welcome.
Dear Sarah,
Not being great at remembering to fill in a timesheet, I’ve been looking for some way to figure out what part of the 100+ page site I’ve just built I was working on, and when – without having to manually go through each page and look at the revisions. Your plugin is awesome and has saved me loads of time so I’ve sent you a fiver. Thanks so much!
I hacked it a wee bit to include more revisions than 50, so maybe that would be my only feedback.
Thanks again, you rock!
-sam
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