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 Revisions – WordPress Plugins

As soon as you create, edit, and update posts and pages, WordPress begins to store new revisions in its database. These appear in a Revisions box below the post editor …

(WordPress revisions list – Post Editor screen)

Having access to effective workflow features like autosave and automatic revisions is undoubtedly a good thing. If you write extensively, however, after a while the revisions can start building up. This can significantly bloat 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 250 posts on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your WordPress database could be storing around 2,500 copies of unnecessary data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 2,500 revisions of that post, the total space wasted is about 250MB.

Fortunately, there are some great plugins available to help you control your revisions and reduce the size of your WordPress database. Let’s take a look at some of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Plugin)

Better Delete Revision removes redundant post revisions from your WordPress database as well as other database content related to each revision like meta information, tags, relationships, and more.

After the plugin has been installed and activated, the plugin can optimize your WP database without having to log into your server.

Go to the admin section and click on Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Better Delete Revision – Settings Menu)

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

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision)

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

(List of revisions – Better Delete Revision Manager)

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

(Clear list of post revisions – Better Delete Revision)

The redundant data will be deleted from the database …

(Post revisions list removed – Better Delete Revision)

As WordPress automatically saves your post revisions, the process will automatically begin again. After some time has passed, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WordPress database as lean as possible …

(Revisions automatically start again!)

Like the other plugins described in this section, you can also use Better Delete Revisions to keep the site’s database optimized …

(Keep your database optimized)

The plugin checks to see if your WP database tables need to be optimized and provides a one-click optimization function without requiring you to log into your server control panel or mess with complicated applications …

(Better Delete Revision checks if your database needs to be optimized)

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions WP Plugin)

OptimizeDatabase not only lets you remove redundant post and page revisions (with the option of keeping an ’x’ amount of your most recent revisions) and lets you perform an easy one-click database cleaning and optimization routine, it also lets you perform the following maintenance tasks:

• Delete trashed comments, pages, and posts
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ’orphan postmeta items’
• Exclude specific posts/pages and tables from cleaning and optimization
• Automatically schedule optimizations
• And more!

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

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

WP-Optimize

(WP-Optimize – WordPress Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as cleaning redundant page and post revisions and checking if your WordPress database tables need to be optimized, WP Optimize also lets you do database maintenance tasks like:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Remove stale metadata from comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site from anywhere)
• Removal of all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clear out the post trash
• Ability to keep selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly schedules of optimization
• See database table statistics
• E-mail notifications after automatic cleanup
• Highlights potentially dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize Plugin

WP Sweep

(WP Sweep Plugin)

WP Sweep allows you to clean up orphaned, duplicated, and unused data in the WP database, including revisions. This plugin cleans up:

• Auto drafts
• Spammed comments
• Orphan term meta
• Duplicated comment meta
• Unused terms
• And more!

(WP Sweep Plugin For WordPress – Settings Screen)

For more details, go here: WP-Sweep Plugin For WordPress

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

To view more plugins that can help you manage post revisions and optimize your database, go to Plugins > Add New and type in keywords like “Post Revisions“, “Optimize Database“, etc …

(WordPress Plugins Menu – Add New 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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