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<\/a>See that little grey box? The one that says “Revision Information”? That’s actually a very helpful box. In there, you’ll find a place to enter a revision log message, where you can describe the changes you made to the page, like this:<\/p>\nAs you can see, the first 4 revisions, by me, have no revision message. It’s very difficult to see at a glance what changes I made, or why I made them. But the most recent message, “Modified the Header Style” tells you exactly what I changed.<\/p>\n If we wanted an ever better message, we could have written “Changed page header from a paragraph to an H2, in accordance with the guidelines provided by the webteam”. Then we’d know not only what was changed, but why.<\/p>\n So revisions are awesome, right? But they work best when everyone uses them, so that if I modify your page, you’ll know what I did, and I’ll know what you did before me. For that reason, this weekend we’ll be turning on a module that enforces a revision log message. In other words, if you forget to enter a revision message, you’ll get a nasty red message that highlights the revision message box and asks you to fill it in. Please take the time to write a brief, meaningful message. It’ll help everyone out.<\/p>\n This change is part of a broader set of changes we’re hoping to make to the Drupal editing experience to allow more flexible workflows. Expect more details in the upcoming weeks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When you’re editing one of our Drupal pages, you may have noticed a little tab down at the bottom, right above the save button: See that little grey box? The one that says “Revision Information”? That’s actually a very helpful box. In there, you’ll find a place to enter a revision log message, where you … Continue reading “The Importance of Revisioning”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,25],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drupal","tag-best-practices","tag-drupal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lanecc.edu\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lanecc.edu\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lanecc.edu\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lanecc.edu\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lanecc.edu\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lanecc.edu\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lanecc.edu\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lanecc.edu\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lanecc.edu\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>You may not have been aware, but if you click on the revisions tab at the top of a page, you can get a list of who made changes, and when those changes were made. If everyone also includes revision log messages, then we can also, at a glance, see what<\/em> was changed. And that can be super helpful:<\/p>\n<\/a>