Disabling Auto Save

I find the WordPress autosaving function a little annoying. Usually I write my postings or pages on OpenOffice Writer then cut and paste into the WordPress text box. OpenOffice has a nice spell check… that I seem to need time to time. On occasion I do write directly into the text box or while I’m formatting the posting I do get some auto saved versions. I found a nifty hack to stop the auto save feature. Open the functions.php file and paste the following into it.

function disableAutoSave(){
wp_deregister_script(‘autosave’);
}
add_action( ‘wp_print_scripts’, ‘disableAutoSave’ );

Pretty easy. WordPress won’t autosave after that.