Save replaced post as a revision or new alternate/clone

[deltafactory]

I'm not familiar with the internals of this plugin nor the core revision system, but I was wondering if it would be practical to save post and postmeta of the the original post as a revision?

Alternately, is it practical to immediately save the post being replaced as a new clone? This would let those who regularly swap between two versions of a page to do so more easily.

[inderpreet99]

Hi,

I tested out the plugin. It correctly saves the updated post as a revision since the plugin uses WP's wp_update_post().

The postmeta in WP is not revision controlled. We will have to wait until this feature is added to WP core: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/20564

Saving the old post as a clone when it is being replaced is a special workflow case for you. I'm not sure if it is valuable to any other users. It is not worth adding to the plugin as a feature. The plugin can add hooks so one can try to do this from the outside (in another plugin/theme), but that's about as far as it should go. Let us know if you're interested in this.