--before-date does not work as expected

[marikunt]

I tried using the "--before-date" param. So what I was expecting delete all revisions older than the enter date, but I have to enter the "keep" param too. Your script leaves exactly the "keep" number in all posts older than the before date. Is it possible to delete all posts older than a specific date without entering a "keep" number?

[ehausen]

The the same issue. It is seems not possible to override either the WP_POST_REVISIONS or the "keep" parameter.

I'm trying to delete revisions older than X, despite what the WP_POST_REVISIONS or "keep" is.

[BrookeDot]

Hi,

The --before-date option is used to delete revisions based on the original post date, not the revision date. In other words, they are parallel to the post_type option - limiting the revision cleaning to that subset of posts.

	 *     wp revisions clean 5 --post_type=post,page
	 *     wp revisions clean --after-date=2015-11-01 --before-date=2015-12-30
	 *     wp revisions clean --after-date=2015-11-01 --before-date=2015-12-30 --dry-run

This is perhaps a Feature Request and not a bug to add something like wp revisions clean --revisions-older-than=<date> and if needed, update the documentation to make this more clear.