Guide

Revisions user guide

Publish historical versions of a post, or fork a live post for a future update.

Public versions

  1. Open the Revisions sidebar on a supported post (post and page by default; charts opt in via Chart Builder).
  2. Toggle a WordPress revision to public. The plugin assigns the next version letter (a, b, … z, aa, …).
  3. Share /post-slug/version/a (letter from the toggle response). Visitors see that revision's content and a versioned title.
  4. Public revisions are protected from WordPress revision pruning.

Removing a public version does not reuse its letter; the next toggle increments past the highest letter in use.

Fork (future revision)

  1. From the Revisions / post status UI, create a fork of a published post.
  2. Edit the fork draft independently. A yellow admin-bar banner marks fork previews. On All Posts, the STATUS column shows Future Revision on the fork draft and Has Future Revision on the published parent.
  3. Publish the fork to merge it back into the parent (content, meta, taxonomies, attachments). The fork is then trashed as merged.
  4. Discard a pending fork with the trash/discard action. Content is not merged.

Only one active fork per parent is allowed. A second fork attempt returns an error until the first is merged or discarded.

Forks do not appear in publication listing queries.

Version list block

Insert Revision List (prc-revisions/list) to show linked public versions (optional dates). Renders nothing when the post has no public revisions.

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