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+title: Versioning
+date: '2008-07-20T00:17:51-04:00'
+permalink: /versioning/
+tags:
+    - publishing
+    - software
+---
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+WordPress 2.6, which was [released just a few days ago](http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/wordpress-26-tyner/), contains expanded support for versioning of blog posts, allowing an author to see all of the revisions made to a particular post, as well as to compare various versions and to revert to some previous historical state.
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+This is a fabulous authoring tool, but it’s all resident in the backend: only the author has access to this versioning information. And for most purposes, that’s probably sufficient. But I could imagine a number of uses — in [electronic scholarly publishing](/planned-obsolescence-the-proposal), for instance — when one might want the readers of a text to have access to a text’s history. Given that the history is already available, I imagine that it’s just a matter of a plugin that accesses the versioning data, organizing and presenting it on the frontend.
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+If somebody knows of such a plugin already in existence, I’d really like to hear about it. If not, I hope some enterprising developer starts thinking about one…
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