Allows to control Gutenberg autosave interval or disable autosave completely.
As of April 2026, Disable Gutenberg Autosave is a WordPress rest plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 4.4/5 rating from 11 reviews. It has been downloaded 40K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Disable REST API.
By activating this plugin autosave feature in the Gutenberg editor will be disabled. Alternatively it also provides options in the editor to select a different autosave interval time than the default 60 seconds.
The block editor will still use local autosave that saves a copy of the edited post to your local storage and allows you to restore it if you happened to navigate away without saving. This plugin prevents the editor from making periodic requests to */autosaves REST endpoint, which disables the “Update” button of the editor, typically at the exact moment you’re trying to click it.
I am working on a “longish” page and while editing the page jumps away from my edit point and I finally realized it was due to autosave. I saw a few options that required editing code that will update from time to time so not good. Then I found this plugin – so simple – no sales cr*p, it just worked! Thank you.
Finally, something that disables Gutenberg autosave! All those sites saying to define the autosave interval in wp-config.php or to disable it by dequeuing this and that, alas they don’t work. Those settings relate to the classic editor. You can use Chrome Development Tools – Network – Filter: Fetch/XHR to see they don’t work, but this lovely plugin does! Really appreciate the work on this one, thanks!
Very useful plugin,
Thanks to the team.
When Preview is clicked in the Gutenberg editor, an autosave is done. This type of autosave is not prevented by this plugin.
Hace exactamente lo que se le pide, desactivar la función de auto guardado de Gutenberg, que me estaba volviendo absolutamente loco. Gutenberg es un editor fantástico a la que te haces con él, pero esa función de auto guardado es verdaderamente penosa y mal implementada.
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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