Wordpress Revision system should count Metadata changes as new Revisions

[alexbowyer]

I experienced some issues with lost post data when developing a WP site using the themify.me "page builder" which stores a lot of the post data for posts and pages into custom fields on the post. The problem I had was that my previous changes to a page did not exist as revisions.

It seems that Wordpress only creates a new revision when you change major fields such as title or post body - but not when you change custom fields or metadata fields.

I think that Wordpress revisions should track ALL changes to a post or page, no matter how minor... Otherwise when people use custom fields or page builders, they don't get the benefits and peace of mind of the revision system.

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

Probably invalid: the API allows plugin and theme authors to trigger additional revisions as needed.

[helen]

Realistically, this is a duplicate of #20564, although I see that the ticket description specifically talks about revisions created when pressing a button in the UI. It's possible to work around this in the meantime, which seems like might be a good idea for page builder features that store data in meta - I have done this very recently.