Added new entry without submitting post data.

[amit_ratio]

Hello Team,

I have just found a weird thing with WordPress. I am not sure whether it is a bug/feature. However, I find it annoying. So, here is what I noticed:

Whenever, I click on "Add New" of post a new entry has been added to the database under 'wp_post' field. I find it annoying because it is making empty entries to the table. There must be some check whether post have something to save or not so, that false entries will be prevented.

[swissspidy]

Hey there,

This is intended behaviour. WordPress creates auto-draft entries in the database. These auto-drafts are periodically deleted by WordPress, so your database definitely won't be cluttered with hundreds of auto-drafts.

If you want to disable auto-drafts, you need to completely disable revisions, e.g. using define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', false );

[amit_ratio]

Replying to swissspidy:

Hey there,

This is intended behaviour. WordPress creates auto-draft entries in the database. These auto-drafts are periodically deleted by WordPress, so your database definitely won't be cluttered with hundreds of auto-drafts.

If you want to disable auto-drafts, you need to completely disable revisions, e.g. using define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', false );

Thank You, for clarification :) .

[johnbillion]

Background: the reason for this is to standardise the behaviour when saving posts.

The intention is for there to always be a valid post ID available at the point where a post is saved, so plugins and anything else which hooks into actions and filters doesn't need to worry about differing behaviour when saving "new" posts vs updating existing posts.