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Disable Gutenberg Autosave

by ska-dev

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Description

By activating this plugin autosave feature in the Gutenberg editor will be disabled. Alternatively it also provides options in the editor to select a different autosave interval time than the default 60 seconds.

The block editor will still use local autosave that saves a copy of the edited post to your local storage and allows you to restore it if you happened to navigate away without saving. This plugin prevents the editor from making periodic requests to “*/autosaves” REST endpoint, which disables the “Update” button of the editor, typically at the exact moment you’re trying to click it.

  1. Select block editor plugin

    Select block editor plugin

  2. Choose the autosave interval

    Choose the autosave interval

Brilliant!

By Duncan (duncan1967) on September 16, 2025

Finally, something that disables Gutenberg autosave! All those sites saying to define the autosave interval in wp-config.php or to disable it by dequeuing this and that, alas they don't work. Those settings relate to the classic editor. You can use Chrome Development Tools - Network - Filter: Fetch/XHR to see they don't work, but this lovely plugin does! Really appreciate the work on this one, thanks!

Get rid of slow Gutenberg

By Saeed Shahryar (s77sh) on July 19, 2022

Very useful plugin, Thanks to the team.

Does not work for autosave on preview

By richardstam on February 24, 2021

When Preview is clicked in the Gutenberg editor, an autosave is done. This type of autosave is not prevented by this plugin.

Perfecta

By thejosetree on February 14, 2019

Hace exactamente lo que se le pide, desactivar la función de auto guardado de Gutenberg, que me estaba volviendo absolutamente loco. Gutenberg es un editor fantástico a la que te haces con él, pero esa función de auto guardado es verdaderamente penosa y mal implementada.

Good job !

By 7est on February 7, 2019

Thank you very much ! You save wordpress and us !

Plug-in saves Gutenberg single-handedly

By kato on February 5, 2019

Go from annoyance to delight in mere moments. This plug-in fixed Gutenberg in 5.0.3. My editor was autosaving every 9 seconds. I'm sure it's just some plug-in that's triggering the error but now that I'm using Gutenberg, I'm pretty happy with it. And this plug-in makes it all possible. The reviewer claiming it doesn't work forgot to activate it. ----EDIT----- After some experimentation, I discovered the offending plug-in. It was not a WP plugin at all, but rather a Google Chrome plugin called Grammarly. Choosing between Grammarly and Gutenberg is not a fun position to be in. Thank you DGA, I'm not in it.

Work Great!

By Boat (boatkung) on January 17, 2019

It's very annoying when cursor jumping or block format become weird after autosave trigger. This plugin will help you control your bad emotions, I'm confirmed!

Works great on 5.0.2

By companyjuice on January 5, 2019

Works as expected on WordPress 5.0.2. Thanks!

Doesn't work

By chenz2 on October 17, 2018

Installed it, made sure settings were correct, and autosave still kicks in. Wish this worked, as it's really annoying to see an autosave alert popup everytime you edit a page.

It was what bothered me the most

By Tr3s (tuca_reis) on September 10, 2018

Was the one that bothered me the most at gutenberg, Thanks for the plugin! 🙂

1.0.15

  • Added a donate link on the plugin page – supporters get a 50% off coupon for my brand new WordPress theme.
  • Update @wordpress/* packages.
  • Tested with Gutenberg 21.7.0.

1.0.14

  • WP 6.8.

1.0.13

  • Replace deprecated PluginSidebarMoreMenuItem and PluginSidebar components.
  • Update @wordpress/* packages.

1.0.12

  • Update @wordpress/* packages.
  • Test with WordPress 6.5.
  • Removed src directory.
  • Added GitHub link for source.

1.0.11

  • Update @wordpress/* packages.
  • Test with WordPress 6.0.

1.0.10

  • Fix first autosave using default interval.
  • Mark (WordPress) default autosave interval as 1 min not 10 sec.
  • Add button to trigger autosave.
  • Add editor status section.
  • Fix variable typo.
  • Test with WordPress 5.8.
  • Use @wordpress/scripts for building.

1.0.9

  • Test with WordPress 5.6.
  • Add screenshots.

1.0.8

  • Update interval REST route permissions.

1.0.7

  • Remove .min from main script file name.
  • Remove file_exists check from plugin asset loading.

1.0.6

  • Remove load_plugin_textdomain.
  • Rename compiled script to same as source script.
  • Remove path from wp_set_script_translations.
  • Remove .pot file and languages dir.
  • Use wp.i18n.__ directly.
  • Add textdomain to plugin docblock.

1.0.5

  • Use wp_set_script_translations.
  • Use wp.element.Fragment instead of React.Fragment.

1.0.4

  • Don’t use inline if.

1.0.3

  • Don’t use WordPress 5.0 locale function when not available.

1.0.2

  • Use WordPress 5.0 locale function.

1.0.1

  • Update slug and textdomain.

1.0.0

  • Initial release.
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