How to Undo Changes in WordPress With Revisions (2024) Step by Step

WordPress revisions learn how to undo changes and go back to an earlier version of posts and pages

Hello everyone, welcome back to another video. I hope you all are doing great and are having an amazing and absolutely incredible day

I bring you back with yet another video. And in this video, we're going to be talking about WordPress revisions and how we're going to undo changes

and go back to an earlier version of our posts or pages that we want to go to. Okay

And basically, whenever you save address, or update a published WordPress page or post

a CMS or a content management system automatically creates revisions of it

Now, when enable, this feature prevents you from missing out on important work

So unfortunately, over time, WordPress revisions can take up unnecessary disk space and affect your site's performance

You know, it actually makes it quite slow. And we don't want that, do we

We don't want that at all. So what we're going to be doing is we're going to be using those..

revision widgets that we have and we're going to learn actually how to undo those changes and go back

to an earlier version so our page can run more smoothly our page can run more fast and everything is

you know just better in terms of working speed because as your store grows and progresses

the world of your e-commerce or you know whatever type of website you have that stuff gets really

slow. It gets really, really slow. And, you know, you don't really like a slow speeded store

And obviously, a slow store leads to annoying customers, you know, like if you have any former

customers that wizard your store and want to buy things from you, they're going to get really

annoyed that why is the store so slow? We don't like the way it's this slow. We don't like the way it's

you know, not listening to the commands we're giving it, et cetera, et cetera. So obviously you're going to

want to make sure that your store speed is up to par It really good And the different types of post blocks and you know revisions we going to work and mess around with that as well So now to start things off what we going to be doing is first of all we going to be coming to the posts and we going to delete the irrelevant posts

Now, as you can see for me over here, I have this random test post for myself, okay

And, you know, I can choose to keep this test post or I can choose to delete them

These are different small widgets that we have, you know, and you can delete these for

obviously WordPress revisions. Now let's say I'm going to open up this post over here

And once you open up this post, you know, we have a whole, I'm going to, I've written a few things over here

Now, if I come down here and post, down here in post, you know, you can get a few things

So there's template, okay, excerpt, and then there's different things like permalang, categories, tags, and a whole lot more

Now, if your page has been changed and if it has revisions on it

then it's going to give you an option of four to five revisions over here

And you can obviously choose different things for those four to five revisions

and you can change it accordingly for those four to five revisions

So obviously it depends on the type of working you want to go with

It depends on the type of things you want to change for your page

And you can change them through those revisions. because those revisions were obviously taken back to the earlier factory version that it wasn't

And once you make a revision, it actually takes you to the section where it gives you the insight of you making a revision where, you know, it lets you switch through the past and the present of the revision

And like let's say I'm going to make some type of random change over here

I'm going to add a paragraph and I'm just going to, you know, go ahead and write some things and do that

I'm going to click on the update. and obviously this is a revision that we made in the design

Now once you updated it, there you go, you get a revision option. And if you click on revisions there you go So it says that you know you added a new paragraph over here and you can split You know this was the previous and this is the new

So these are the new widgets that we added. And if you want to revise it, you can choose what you want to revise it to

So, you know, you could choose this and we can click on load

Look at that. It revises it to this. So these are basically how your revision works

And this is how you can learn how to undo changes and go back to. an earlier version of a post or a page

So we can do the same. This is obviously how you're going to do it for posts by clicking on two revisions down here

You can do the same with pages as well. So if you come back here, go to our pages and let's say we have a home page over here, right

Now in the homepage, you know, you can get different designs. And we know that constantly the homepages are being changed a lot because the homepage actually

constitutes the main, you could say, appearance over your website. the main dashboard of your website, if I may

And that dashboard of your website changes a lot, doesn't it? Because this dashboard contains a lot of different things that, you know

constitute where your page is actually about. So obviously, because of it changing a lot, we can see that I have changed my dashboard a lot as well

So you can, like obviously, I made a change 36 minutes ago

Then I made a change in June 20th. So, you know, you can split it, unified it

I'm going to go ahead and load the June 20th version in

And this is what my June 20th version of the store looks like. Now, if I want to load it to what it was, you know, a few minutes ago

then it obviously goes to that. Obviously, I changed a bit of the styling and themes

But yeah, that is how you can update your pages as well

So post and pages, it's no matter. you know using post and pages you can revise and load your actual design to a few days back and it really easy to work with this it really simple because it allows us to go back to a factory version of our website that you know is fast and efficient in speed

And, you know, it's not something that we've overdone because most of the times when you're working on something new, like a new post or a new page, we usually overdo things

And we're like, oh, damn, you know, I've saved this now. How will I go back to the other older version

You can just, you know, as I showed you, revise it. Once you revise it, things are going to be good and great to go

So yeah, that's the basic idea that you need to understand when it comes to using these types of things in your basic WordPress and WooCommerce editing tutorials

Now, basically, if I were to go through all of this again, no matter how many revisions you have, you know, there could be five, there could be six, there could be ten

Okay, as long as things are being backed up on your WooCommerce or your WordPress, you are going to keep getting revisions

But the more revisions you back up, I will warn you this, the slower your store gets because you're just adding information into the cloud constantly

It's consistently adding information into your cloud that maybe isn't even required that much

And, you know, that constantly slows down your store. So you are going to keep that in mind

to the point where it, you know, adds the revision so much that your store is actually

unbearably slow, then what you can do is you can come over to these revisions and you can

one by one start deleting them if you want to. And to delete them, obviously, you can either go into the settings to delete them or you can

just come into the page and you can obviously move this page to trash and bring it back

And that will obviously delete the revisions because once you move the page into trash

it refreshes it and renews it so yeah basically that's about it that's how you can uh revise and

reload uh you know your previous pages so that's about it thank you for watching and i'll see all

for you next time goodbye