How To Change The WordPress Auto-Save Interval?

What is the WordPress auto-save Feature?

WordPress automatically saves a draft of the content that you are currently editing or working on at regular intervals. WordPress stores a draft of your content every 60 seconds by default.

There are times when you may wish to modify the auto-save configuration. For example, you may want to increase the auto saving interval if your internet connection is sluggish so that when WordPress saves a draft of your article, your browser doesn’t freeze. On the other hand, you may also reduce the auto-save interval so that WordPress does not store the modifications to a post more often if you want to reduce the likelihood of losing them.

Steps for changing the auto-save interval:

In order to change the length of the time when WordPress waits between saving drafts automatically, you have to implement the following steps:

• Login to cPanel.
• In the cPanel home screen, there is a ‘Files’ section, there click on ‘File Manager’.
• Go to the directory where WordPress is installed.

Note : Usually WordPress is installed in the ‘public_html’ directory. However, if WordPress is installed in a sub-directory, you must navigate to that directory.

• Right click on the file ‘wp-config.php’ and click on ‘Edit’.
• Add the line mentioned below to the wp-config.php file. In place of X you have to add the number of seconds that you want WordPress to wait between saving drafts of your posts.

define( ‘AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL’, X );

Note : The auto save line mentioned above should come before the line mentioned below in the wp-config.php file otherwise the setting will not have any effect.

require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-settings.php’);

• Click on ‘Save Changes’.

Steps to Perform When the phprc File Isn’t Updating