{"id":8369,"date":"2019-09-30T09:53:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T09:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/?p=8369"},"modified":"2019-09-30T09:53:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T09:53:38","slug":"how-to-change-the-wordpress-auto-save-interval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/how-to-change-the-wordpress-auto-save-interval\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Change The WordPress Auto-Save Interval?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is the WordPress auto-save Feature?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The WordPress auto-save feature saves a draft of the post you are working on or still editing in frequent time intervals. By default, WordPress saves a draft of your post in every 60 seconds.<\/p>\n

There might be situations where you might want to change the auto-save setting. For instance, if your internet connection is slow, you might want to increase the auto saving interval so that your browser does not freeze whenever WordPress saves a draft of your post. In contrast to this, if you wish to minimize the chances of losing the edits to a post, it is also possible to decrease the auto-save interval so that WordPress does not save them more frequently.<\/p>\n

Steps for changing the auto-save interval:
\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In order to change the length of the time when WordPress waits between saving drafts automatically, you have to implement the following steps:<\/p>\n

    \n
  • Login to cPanel.<\/li>\n
  • In the cPanel home screen, there is a \u2018Files\u2019 section, there click on \u2018File Manager\u2019.<\/li>\n
  • Go to the directory where WordPress is installed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Note : Usually WordPress is installed in the \u2018public_html\u2019 directory. However, if WordPress is installed in a sub-directory, you must navigate to that directory.<\/em><\/p>\n

      \n
    • Right click on the file \u2018wp-config.php\u2019 and click on \u2018Edit\u2019.<\/li>\n
    • Add the line mentioned below to the wp-config.php file. In place of X <\/em>you have to add the number of seconds that you want WordPress to wait between saving drafts of your posts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      define( ‘AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL’, X );<\/p>\n

      Note : The auto save line mentioned above should come before the line mentioned below in the wp-config.php file otherwise the setting will not have any effect.<\/p>\n

      require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-settings.php’);<\/p>\n

        \n
      • Click on \u2018Save Changes\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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