Title: Exclude revisions
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Exclude revisions

 *  Resolved [Georgio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/georgio-1/)
 * (@georgio-1)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-revisions/)
 * Hi,
 * Thanks for this excellent plugin! It works well but there is no possibility to
   exclude revisions from deletion. There are cases where revisions count, for example
   when using a collaborative tool. I use Buddypress Docs for translations
    [https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-docs/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-docs/)
   This tool allows multi-edition and some times it is important to restore a previous
   revision in case the new editor has made mistakes. There is a history page to
   see who did what and it is very important to know who edited your text. It is
   also a way to know which editors are the best and which are not serious and should
   be blocked from editing.
 * When optimizing the database, all the history is lost. So I have set the settings
   to 90 days for 50 revisions, but that doesn’t resolve really the problem.
 * Any idea ? if any post had an option “keep revisions” it would be perfect but
   maybe it is a lot of work to implement….
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/rvg-optimize-database/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/rvg-optimize-database/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [cageehv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cageehv/)
 * (@cageehv)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-revisions/#post-7115700)
 * Hey Georg.io,
 * Thanks for your suggestion!
 * I will have a look at it and see how hard it is to implement such an option.
 * peace,
    Rolf
 *  Plugin Contributor [cageehv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cageehv/)
 * (@cageehv)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-revisions/#post-7115855)
 * Hey Georg.io,
 * Just released version 4.1.4 of my plugin.
 * Now you can add a custom field (‘keep_revisions’, ‘Y’) to the posts and pages
   of which you want to keep the revisions.
 * Enjoy!
 * peace,
    Rolf
 *  Thread Starter [Georgio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/georgio-1/)
 * (@georgio-1)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-revisions/#post-7115873)
 * Hi,
 * a priori that’s good news! I will try to find a way to use it, though it is not
   obvious.
    Unfortunately Buddypress Docs doesn’t have custom fields feature. Regular
   posts and pages have that feature of course, but for a reason I ignore, this 
   feature shows only options from A to F (I tested with two themes) so I don’t 
   see ‘keep_revisions’. Even if I add it manually I cannot test it for a regular
   post as your plugin will remove the revisions of Buddypress Docs as well.
 * I will search for a plugin in order to add custom fields to Buddypress Docs.
 * Indepentently from the results, thanks for your work.
 *  [Boone Gorges](https://wordpress.org/support/users/boonebgorges/)
 * (@boonebgorges)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-revisions/#post-7115882)
 * A custom field (ie, a piece of postmeta) is a good way to skip specific posts,
   but it’s not good for broad categories – the ‘Y’ would need to be filled in each
   time, making it hard to do programatically, especially with existing content.
 * If a filter were added to rvg-optimize-database, it would be very easy to write
   a small plugin that would exclude certain types of posts from having their revisions
   cleaned. In `ODB_Cleaner`, change `odb_post_is_excluded()` so it looks like this:
 *     ```
       function odb_post_is_excluded($parent_id)
       	{
       		$keep_revisions = get_post_meta($parent_id, 'keep_revisions', true);
       		return apply_filters( 'odb_post_is_excluded', ($keep_revisions === 'Y'), $parent_id );;
       	} // odb_post_is_exclude()
       ```
   
 * Then, [@georgio-1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/georgio-1/) can exclude
   Docs from the cleaner like this:
 *     ```
       function exclude_buddypress_docs_from_odb_cleaner( $is_protected, $parent_id ) {
           $parent = get_post( $parent_id );
           if ( $parent && bp_docs_get_post_type_name() === $parent->post_type ) {
               $is_protected = true;
           }
   
           return $is_protected;
       }
       add_filter( 'odb_post_is_excluded', 'exclude_buddypress_docs_from_odb_cleaner', 10, 2 );
       ```
   

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 * Last reply from: [Boone Gorges](https://wordpress.org/support/users/boonebgorges/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-revisions/#post-7115882)
 * Status: resolved