Disable WordPress Autosave

It turns out that disabling autosave completely isn’t that difficult. If you follow this, you must remember that WordPress will no longer save while you write, meaning you can lose work much easier.

To disable WordPress autosave, you must access your website FTP and edit wp-admin/post.php and wp-admin/post-new.php and wp-admin/page-new.php and wp-admin/page.php. In post.php, edit line that says

wp_enqueue_script('autosave');

by adding // to the beginning of the line. In post-new.php, page.php and page-new.php edit line in the same way so it reads

//wp_enqueue_script('autosave');

If you ever want to restart the autosave function, just remove the // in both files.