Title: Auto save creating multiple drafts Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Auto save creating multiple drafts * Resolved [Mark McKibben](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manzabar/) * (@manzabar) * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-save-creating-multiple-drafts/) * I recently upgraded one of my blogs to WordPress. Ever since doing so when WordPress auto saves a post I’m writing; it creates a new/separate draft. One particularly long post I was working on ended up creating 31 different drafts. I did some poking around the forums/codex/bugtracker, but didn’t see any other reports of this. Bug? New feature? Something screwy in my install/upgrade? * Vitals for this blog: PHP information max_execution_time: 30 max_input_time: 60 file_uploads: 1 upload_max_filesize: 2M post_max_size: 8M register_globals: safe_mode: allow_url_fopen: 1 eaccelerator.enable: * Other information: PHP Server API: cgi WordPress Version: 2.5 WordPress Theme:/ wp-content/themes/outworld WordPress Permalink Structure: /%year%/%monthnum%/% day%/%postname%/ WordPress wp-content directory is writable WordPress does not use Gzip Compression WP-Cache is running on this installation of WordPress GD library is installed PHP Version: 4.4.5 MySQL Version: 4.1.22-standard-log Browser used: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13 * Plugins Used ————————————- Akismet, v 2.1.4 Bad Behavior, v 2.0.13 Better Comments Manager, v 1.5.1 Contact Form ][, v 2.0.13 Comment License, v 1.2 DoFollow, v 4.0 Google XML Sitemaps, v 3.0.2.1 Kottke Style Archive, v 0.4 NextGEN Gallery, v 0.90 NextGEN Gallery Widget, v 1.20 Plugins Used Plugin, v 0.1.11b PHPInfo, v 1.1b Subscribe To Comments, v 2.1.2 Search Everything, v 4.2.2 Simple Tags, v 1.5.3 ShareThis Classic, v 1.5.2 TFS Core (Text Filter Suite), v 1.1 Tagline Randomizer, v 0.99b TFS Pirate, v 1.1 WordPress Database Backup, v 2.1.5 wp-cache, v 2.1.2 WordPress.com Stats, v 1.2 Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * [fitztrev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fitztrev/) * (@fitztrev) * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-save-creating-multiple-drafts/#post-730374) * Are you using custom fields? If so, [there’s already a bug report of the problem](http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6457). * Thread Starter [Mark McKibben](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manzabar/) * (@manzabar) * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-save-creating-multiple-drafts/#post-730412) * Sure am, missed that bug when looking through the bugtracker. I hope they release the fix for that quick, the blog mostly affected by this uses custom fields extensively. * Thanks! * [ivovic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ivovic/) * (@ivovic) * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-save-creating-multiple-drafts/#post-730433) * Am I the only one who doesn’t install new versions until the first maintenence release comes out? 😉 * [creationrobot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creationrobot/) * (@creationrobot) * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-save-creating-multiple-drafts/#post-730445) * Ivovic, probably 🙂 I like the risk of the new toys personally. * Thread Starter [Mark McKibben](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manzabar/) * (@manzabar) * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-save-creating-multiple-drafts/#post-730595) * [@ivovic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ivovic/): Nope, the only site I work at keeping the latest/greatest version is my test blog on my home server. All my production sites tend to stay on a version until I’m sure the plugins/ themes I’m using are fully upgraded and I know things will work correctly. The site I upgraded and got caught with this bug was kind of an exception as I hadn’t upgraded it for a while and wanted to get caught up a bit (e.g. was still on 2.2.x). * [ivovic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ivovic/) * (@ivovic) * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-save-creating-multiple-drafts/#post-730596) * it’s always the exceptions that hurt the most 😉 * anyway, good luck getting this fixed ASAP. * [nmarques](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nmarques/) * (@nmarques) * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-save-creating-multiple-drafts/#post-730730) * you are very lucky… I have the same problem. The save button keeps working automatically and then i can’t post, the publish button disappear * Thread Starter [Mark McKibben](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manzabar/) * (@manzabar) * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-save-creating-multiple-drafts/#post-730795) * This bug appears to have been fixed in WP 2.6. Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘Auto save creating multiple drafts’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [auto-save](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/auto-save/) * [drafts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/drafts/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 8 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [Mark McKibben](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manzabar/) * Last activity: [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-save-creating-multiple-drafts/#post-730795) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics