Our web host disables WordPress post revisions by default.
We can enable them on request.
However there are some important limitations:
- WordPress will only keep the previous 3 – 5 revisions of each post
- old revisions are automatically removed after 60 days
With only a maximum of 3-5 revisions, you will lose old revisions quickly, even by fixing typos, changing formatting, etc.
Therefore, for any pages/posts for which you wish to maintain revision history:
- you should do the content preparation and editing in a different place, perhaps on a separate test page on the same site, rather than within the canonical page
- any specific versions of pages that you want to maintain for historical reasons should be saved somewhere other than within the canonical page, perhaps on a separate, new (non-public) page on the same site
Let us know if you would like to have post revisions enabled on your website.