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Restoring Past Revisions with Cornerstone

cpjennmeakin — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 16:45:02 +0000

I am trying to restore a past revision on a page where I am using Cornerstone. Is there a way to do this? When I select a past revision in the WordPress “Publish” section, then go to edit in Cornerstone, the revision does not change. I understand that changes made outside of Cornerstone are not saved within Cornerstone – is there a revision history built into Cornerstone?

This is the area where I am selecting past revisions:

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Christian — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 07:20:11 +0000

Hey there,

We’re sorry but Cornerstone does not work with revisions. WordPress Revisions affect server performance greatly so that is not recommended to use. If you need backup or need to save previous versions of your work, you can save as template and import it when needed.

Thanks.

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cpjennmeakin — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 10:24:55 +0000

interesting. ok thanks for the info

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Zeshan — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 19:06:12 +0000

You’re welcome! 🙂

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Katharina O — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 15:13:54 +0000

So there is no option of restoring former versions of what I have build before?
Since it still shows in wordpress … would be really great if there was a way to do so.

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Rupok — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 15:44:00 +0000

Hi there,

We certainly appreciate the feedback! This is something we can add to our list of feature requests. This way it can be taken into consideration for future development. All of these items are discussed with our team internally and prioritized based on the amount of interest a particular feature might receive. Thanks!

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srpickert — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 05:09:03 +0000

#following – Would be a great feature to revert back to something if you messed something up like I just did instead of having to redo it all over.

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Rue Nel — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 08:49:24 +0000

Hello There,

We add your feedback to our lists. Thank you.

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dbonneville — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 19:03:28 +0000

Yes, please add revisions to Cornerstone. I spent a long time figuring out that it didn’t work and blew away a bunch of work.

If revisions did not work with Cornerstone, it should have been communicated very very clearly up front. That is a major missing feature. Well, it’s not really a feature – you’ve removed basic expected functionality of WordPress.

Please get that going! I’ve bought several X licenses and this gives me pause about getting another one. In a multi-designer scenario, saving “templates” is just not going to work. I can’t see any reason that if you can save a template, you should also be able to save any time and see revisions.

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Rupok — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 04:31:41 +0000

Hi @dbonneville

Thanks for your feedback. It’s already on our feature list and hopefully will be added soon. Note that Cornerstone is not like the default editor rather a custom visual page builder. So WordPress revisions won’t work on this as Cornerstone pages are stored as serialized data, in the post meta table. So I can’t agree with what you said – “you’ve removed basic expected functionality of WordPress.”

Hope this makes sense.

Cheers!