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How To Add More Fields To WordPress New Post Page

Creating additional fields in a WordPress Write/Edit page

Bloggers using WordPress extensively to publish their posts can add more fields as per their requirements easily. Any number of fields can be incorporated in a particular post or web page by using More Fields plugin which normally appears on the far right hand side of the post.

A column is available to the right of the editor in all WordPress pages or posts which displays objects like Preview posts, Publish post, schedule future posts, set private post and many more. Any new fields can be added in this column.

WordPress provides a utility called More Fields WordPress plug-in to add new fields to a post as per the user’s requirements. One can add any number of additional fields on Write/ Edit page by creating number of boxes to hold corresponding additional fields for a post.

Every Write/ Edit page comes with either a large left column or narrow right column. Many elements are available on an editable page or post, and BOX is one such element that is used to add new fields.

WordPress plug-in adds any number fields by creating number of boxes either on right side or left side of the page and with any field type. Different WordPress Fields plug-in can be downloaded from WordPress Plugin Directory.

[ Download WordPress More-Fields plugin ]

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How To Delete / Remove WordPress Post Revisions

Delete WordPress Post Revisions Using MySQL Tools

When you turn off or disable versions history or post revisions tracking feature in WordPress (which is added to all WordPress versions since the version 2.6), it is important that you delete/remove existing post revisions which are stored in the WordPress posts table.

You also need to delete/remove the changes made to the pages which are stored or saved in the database so as to reduce the size of the WordPress posts table, especially if the stored revisions or changes are abundant.

Follow the below mentioned steps to delete/remove all post revisions rows and entries that exist in the wp_posts table.

1> Login to the MySQL command-line tool, SQLyog, phpMyAdmin or any other GUI tools for MySQL.
2> Choose the proper WordPress database (incase the same server has more than one WordPress databases).
3> Now issue the below mentioned command. (It is advisable to keep a backup copy of the database before you perform the deletion).

DELETE FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = “revision”;

The above procedure will purge all records related to post revisions and delete all revisions history. Now, you can no longer check the phase changes or compare versions. Administrators may also choose to delete post revisions in order to ensure privacy and prevent the writers or authors from detecting any changes made to their posts.

Related posts:

1> Disable WordPress post revisions.