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Disable Gutenberg Autosave

Allows to control Gutenberg autosave interval or disable autosave completely.

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46.3% of this page's analysis has direct source links.

0 build-decision rows missing links

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58 rows with no attached evidence

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Download Momentum

180 days
570 1.7K -66.0% 3.9K

Related Opportunities

4 markets
Commercial opportunity Gutenberg: Agency visual QA and update safety agency visual QA and update safety · final 80.1 · proof validated Commercial opportunity Update: Hosting operations and site health hosting operations and site health · final 74.7 · proof validated Needs sharper proof Rest: API and integration reliability operations API and integration reliability operations · final 71.1 · proof not collected Generic category Revision: WordPress operations workflow WordPress operations workflow · final 48.0 · proof not collected

Source Evidence

Open evidence explorer
neutral support · high severity · relevance 0.58
Plugin doesn’t work in WordPress 5.0 beta

Plugin doesn’t work in WordPress 5.0 beta: users show bugs, compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
Proof Blocked card complete agency visual QA and update safety Evidence linked to opportunity
Plugin doesn’t work in WordPress 5.0 beta When installing the WordPress 5.0 beta, I get a PHP error when opening the editor.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.87
Works about 1/3rd of the time

Works about 1/3rd of the time: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
Proof Blocked card complete agency visual QA and update safety Evidence linked to opportunity
Works about 1/3rd of the time I was really looking forward to using this because of the autosave bug in WP where once it starts, it gets stuck and I have to copy my changes to a text file, back out of the edit page, reopen, copy back, and then try to save.
complaint review · medium severity · relevance 0.86
Doesn’t work

Doesn’t work: users show bugs, missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
Proof Blocked card complete agency visual QA and update safety Evidence linked to opportunity
Doesn’t work Installed it, made sure settings were correct, and autosave still kicks in.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
Doesn’t work in 5.4.3

Doesn’t work in 5.4.3: users show bugs, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
Proof Blocked card complete agency visual QA and update safety Evidence linked to opportunity
Doesn’t work in 5.4.3 Sounds like a great plugin but I still keep getting the Update warning at the top of the screen.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.69
Disable Gutenberg Autosave

Disable Gutenberg Autosave: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
Proof Blocked card complete agency visual QA and update safety Evidence linked to opportunity
The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] Any chance of updating this beautiful plugin (Disable Gutenberg Autosave) to the latest WP soon?
complaint review · medium severity · relevance 0.69
Does not work for autosave on preview

Does not work for autosave on preview: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
Proof Blocked card complete agency visual QA and update safety Evidence linked to opportunity
Does not work for autosave on preview When Preview is clicked in the Gutenberg editor, an autosave is done.
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.44
Work Great!

Work Great!: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
Proof Blocked card complete agency visual QA and update safety Evidence linked to opportunity
Work Great!
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.44
Plug-in saves Gutenberg single-handedly

Plug-in saves Gutenberg single-handedly: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
Proof Blocked card complete agency visual QA and update safety Evidence linked to opportunity
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.
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.44
Get rid of slow Gutenberg

Get rid of slow Gutenberg: users show performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
Proof Blocked card complete agency visual QA and update safety Evidence linked to opportunity
Get rid of slow Gutenberg Very useful plugin, Thanks to the team.
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.38
It was what bothered me the most

It was what bothered me the most: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
Proof Blocked card complete agency visual QA and update safety Evidence linked to opportunity
It was what bothered me the most Was the one that bothered me the most at gutenberg, Thanks for the plugin! 🙂 Was the one that bothered me the most at gutenberg, Thanks for the plugin! 🙂

Competitor Context

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Wp-autosave praise owner · intel 55.0 · weakness 39.5
praise owner
stale update history 2 collected complaint signal(s) bugs missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect editor layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
source 1 source 2
Disable Autosave praise owner · intel 33.9 · weakness 33.4
praise owner
stale update history 1 source link Evidence only
Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

source 1
Change Autosave Time praise owner · intel 32.6 · weakness 31.6
praise owner
stale update history 1 source link Hold Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around time before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
source 1
Super Switch watchlist · intel 29.4 · weakness 35.8
watchlist
stale update history 1 source link Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source 1
Heartbeat Controller watchlist · intel 25.6 · weakness 32.7
watchlist
stale update history 12 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect performance slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
source 1 source 2 source 3
Revisions Control Ultimate watchlist · intel 24.3 · weakness 31.4
watchlist
stale update history 8 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect optimization slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
source 1 source 2 source 3

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No repeated plugin-level themes have been generated yet.

Collected Signals

17 shown from 17 collected
praise This plugin saved my sanity (5 stars) review · 2026-03-16T22:35:24+00:00 · low severity · gutenberg

The reviewer says disabling Gutenberg autosave stopped the editor from jumping away from their place while editing a long page.

Evidence: while editing the page jumps away from my edit point and I finally realized it was due to autosave
easy quality Gutenberg autosave disabling agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
source plugin
praise Brilliant! (5 stars) review · 2025-09-16T01:15:26+00:00 · low severity · gutenberg

The reviewer praises the plugin for disabling Gutenberg autosave where common wp-config and dequeue methods did not work.

Evidence: those settings relate to the classic editor
quality Gutenberg autosave control agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
source plugin
praise Get rid of slow Gutenberg (5 stars) review · 2022-07-19T20:52:01+00:00 · medium severity · gutenberg

Get rid of slow Gutenberg: users show performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Get rid of slow Gutenberg Very useful plugin, Thanks to the team.
performance agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
source plugin
neutral Doesn’t Work At All … Don’t Bother support · 2021-05-06T19:06:28+00:00 · medium severity · gutenberg

Doesn’t Work At All … Don’t Bother: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Doesn’t Work At All … Don’t Bother Absolutely does nothing. This topic was modified 5 years ago by hmnvtn . Absolutely does nothing. This topic was modified 5 years ago by hmnvtn .
agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
source plugin
complaint Does not work for autosave on preview (2 stars) review · 2021-02-24T19:43:30+00:00 · medium severity · gutenberg

Does not work for autosave on preview: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Does not work for autosave on preview When Preview is clicked in the Gutenberg editor, an autosave is done.
bugs agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
source plugin
complaint Works about 1/3rd of the time support · 2021-02-02T22:49:48+00:00 · medium severity · gutenberg

Works about 1/3rd of the time: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Works about 1/3rd of the time I was really looking forward to using this because of the autosave bug in WP where once it starts, it gets stuck and I have to copy my changes to a text file, back out of the edit page, reopen, copy back, and then try to save.
bugs compatibility missing feature support agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
source plugin
complaint Doesn’t work in 5.4.3 support · 2020-07-26T18:16:13+00:00 · medium severity · gutenberg

Doesn’t work in 5.4.3: users show bugs, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Doesn’t work in 5.4.3 Sounds like a great plugin but I still keep getting the Update warning at the top of the screen.
bugs migration reliable quality agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
source plugin
complaint Disable Gutenberg Autosave support · 2019-08-15T21:12:05+00:00 · medium severity · gutenberg

Disable Gutenberg Autosave: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] Any chance of updating this beautiful plugin (Disable Gutenberg Autosave) to the latest WP soon?
support agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
source plugin
neutral WP 5.2.2 will this work, is this going to be updated support · 2019-07-13T21:14:40+00:00 · medium severity · gutenberg

WP 5.2.2 will this work, is this going to be updated: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: WP 5.2.2 will this work, is this going to be updated Greetings, This looks VERY useful and would solve my current problem. Are you planning to continue to test and maintain the plug-in? Is anyone using it on the latest 5.2.2 ?? Thanks in advance to responding. Greetings, This looks VERY useful and would solve my current problem. Are you planning to continue
agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
source plugin
praise Perfecta (5 stars) review · 2019-02-14T18:24:37+00:00 · medium severity · gutenberg

Perfecta: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Perfecta Hace exactamente lo que se le pide, desactivar la función de auto guardado de Gutenberg, que me estaba volviendo absolutamente loco.
quality agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
source plugin
praise Good job ! (5 stars) review · 2019-02-07T16:29:20+00:00 · medium severity · gutenberg

Good job !: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Good job ! Thank you very much ! You save wordpress and us ! Thank you very much ! You save wordpress and us !
agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
source plugin
praise Plug-in saves Gutenberg single-handedly (5 stars) review · 2019-02-04T23:54:51+00:00 · medium severity · gutenberg

Plug-in saves Gutenberg single-handedly: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: 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.
bugs agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
source plugin
praise Work Great! (5 stars) review · 2019-01-17T17:23:47+00:00 · medium severity · gutenberg

Work Great!: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Work Great!
support quality form agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
source plugin
praise Works great on 5.0.2 (5 stars) review · 2019-01-05T16:04:46+00:00 · medium severity · gutenberg

Works great on 5.0.2: users praise reliable, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Works great on 5.0.2 Works as expected on WordPress 5.0.2.
reliable quality agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
source plugin
neutral Plugin doesn’t work in WordPress 5.0 beta support · 2018-11-05T09:55:56+00:00 · high severity · gutenberg

Plugin doesn’t work in WordPress 5.0 beta: users show bugs, compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Plugin doesn’t work in WordPress 5.0 beta When installing the WordPress 5.0 beta, I get a PHP error when opening the editor.
bugs compatibility setup form agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
source plugin
complaint Doesn’t work (1 star) review · 2018-10-17T14:04:35+00:00 · medium severity · gutenberg

Doesn’t work: users show bugs, missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Doesn’t work Installed it, made sure settings were correct, and autosave still kicks in.
bugs missing feature setup value agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
source plugin
praise It was what bothered me the most (5 stars) review · 2018-09-10T00:30:41+00:00 · medium severity · gutenberg

It was what bothered me the most: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: It was what bothered me the most Was the one that bothered me the most at gutenberg, Thanks for the plugin! 🙂 Was the one that bothered me the most at gutenberg, Thanks for the plugin! 🙂
agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
source plugin