WordPress Plugins For Managing WordPress Post Revisions

In a separate tutorial, we looked at the WordPress Post Revisions feature, where WordPress saves all your post revisions, so you can always go back to an earlier version of what you have written and restore it.

In this tutorial, we look at a number of WordPress plugins that will help you manage your post revisions.

Managing Post Revisions – WordPress Plugins

As soon as you update pages and posts, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. These appear in a Revisions list at the bottom of the page or post …

(Revisions list – Post Editor screen)

Autosave and revisions are no doubt features that help create a more productive workflow. If you write a lot of content, however, the revisions can start to build up. This can significantly increase the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to be able to manage your revisions.

(Post revisions can really add up after a while)

For example, if there are 100 posts on your site and each post has an average of 15 revisions your database could be storing up to 1,500 copies of unnecessary data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 1,500 revisions of that post, the total database space wasted is about 150MB.

Fortunately, there are several plugins for WordPress to help you control your revisions and reduce the size of your WordPress database. Here are a few:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin)

Better Delete Revision removes redundant revisions of posts from your database as well as database content related to each revision such as relationships, tags, meta data, and more.

After installing and activating the plugin, Better Delete Revision can optimize your database without having to log into your server.

Log into the WordPress administration area and select Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Settings)

This brings you to the Better Delete Revision Manager area. Click ’Check Revision Posts’ to calculate how many redundant post revisions you can safely delete from your WP database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

A list of post revisions stored in the WP database will be returned on the screen …

(Better Delete Revision – Posts revisions)

Click on the ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ button below the list to delete the items from your WordPress database …

(Delete list of post revisions – Better Delete Revision Manager)

The unnecessary data will be deleted from the database …

(Revisions cleared)

As WordPress automatically stores your post revisions, the process will automatically begin again. After a while, we recommend repeating this process to keep your database as lean as possible …

(Revisions automatically start being stored again!)

Like the other plugins described in this section, you can also use this plugin to keep your database optimized …

(Keep the database optimized)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if your database needs optimization and provides a one-click WordPress database optimization feature without the need to log into your hosting control panel …

(Better Delete Revision lets you perform a one-click table optimization maintenance routine)

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision Plugin For WordPress

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin)

OptimizeDatabase not only can be used to delete redundant post and page revisions (with the option of keeping an ‘x’-amount of the most recent revisions) and checks if the WordPress database needs optimization, it also lets you perform the following maintenance tasks:

• Delete trashed pages, posts, and comments
• Delete unused tags
• Delete ‘expired transients’
• Exclude certain tables and specific pages/posts from cleaning and optimization
• Automatically schedule optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin For WordPress – Settings)

For more details, go here: Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin

WP Optimize

(WP-Optimize WordPress Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as removing unnecessary revisions of pages and posts and performing table optimization maintenance routines, this plugin also lets you perform the following:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for published posts
• Remove stale spam comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site anywhere, anytime)
• Remove transient options
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to keep selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Option to add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization schedules
• View database table statistics
• E-mail notifications after automatic database cleanups
• Highlights potentially dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize WP Plugin – Settings Panel)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize Plugin

WP Sweep

(WP-Sweep – WordPress Plugin)

In addition to optimizing your database tables and deleting unnecessary revisions, WP Sweep also cleans up:

• Auto drafts
• Deleted comments
• Orphaned user meta
• Duplicated term meta
• Transient options
• And more!

(WP-Sweep – WordPress Plugin Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Sweep Plugin

Simple Revisions Delete

This lightweight and simple-to-use plugin lets you purge (delete) your posts revisions either individually or all at once.

Once the plugin has been installed and activated, for example, a ‘Purge’ link appears next to the Revisions section in your Publish box (and in other sections of your admin area) allowing you to safely delete revisions.

For more details, go here: Simple Revisions Delete

WP REVISIONS CONTROL

This plugin lets you specify the number of revisions retained for each post type in the Settings > Writing screen.

For more details, go here: WP Revisions Control

For more plugins that can help you manage post revisions and optimize your database, go to Plugins > Add New and search for keywords like “Manage Post Revisions“, “Optimize“, etc …

(Plugins Menu – Add Plugin)

We hope that you have found the above information on plugins that will help you manage your WordPress post revisions useful.

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