I’m fairly new to Pressbooks, and I believe awhile back I was able to increase the amount of time before an autosave kicked in on a page; I need to do that within another book, and I can’t recall where I did that. Can someone remind me where that setting can be changed? Thank you!
I think that WordPress has a default 60 second to autosave feature, which you can adjust in wp-config.php. See https://www.collectiveray.com/wordpress-autosave for details. I’m not aware of Pressbooks adjusting the default anywhere in our codebase.
EDIT: link above is now broken. Try The Autosave Feature for WordPress Posts - PublishPress. for similar advice.
Steel,
I feel like Brad and I were working on this and then got sidetracked with other projects. As an institutional manager, I don’t think I can tweak this default for our network. I want to get back to it, but when I click that link from your answer in 2021, it seems like there’s an error?? Or it just may be over my head. I would appreciate any guidance you can provide - the little yellow message “there is an autosave that is more recent….” is happening on every chapter as well as when I enter a new glossary term. Thank you! - Jamie
Thanks @jholmes – the link in my first message appears to be dead now. I added a comparable one with an edit.
As for what you’re describing, I wasn’t aware of this being an issue on our production networks at present, but it sounds like something odd is happening. Can you send a message (with details for reproducing) to our premium support team so we can investigate and get back to you with an answer?