Restore an entry to a previous version from the History panel

[simonclay]

The entry sidebar's History panel lists previous saves, but clicking one opens the commit on GitHub. For the non-technical clients I hand sites to, it would confuse them: they don't know GitHub, and restoring means finding the file in the commit and copying each field back by hand. In practice they have to ask me to do it.

A 'Restore this version' action on each item in the History panel. It would load that version's content into the editor as unsaved changes, so the editor can check it in the preview and then click Save (or Revert All Changes to back out). The restore would then just be a normal new commit, so nothing in the history is lost.

A Compare with current view would be a nice extra, but loading the old version into the editor with the live preview already goes a long way.

Additional context

I'm moving small-business client sites from WordPress to Astro + Sveltia. The editing experience, especially with a custom live preview, is the best I've found for clients. Being able to undo a bad save themselves is the main thing they miss from WordPress's revisions.

[kyoshino]

It’s on our roadmap for sure 🙂

[simonclay]

That's great.