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 pages and posts, WordPress begins to store new revisions for the content in its database. These are displayed in a Revisions section below the page or post …

(Post Editor screen – The WordPress revisions list)

Autosave and post revisions are no doubt functions that help make work more efficient. If you write often, 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.

(Your database could be storing lots of unnecessary data)

For example, if you have 100 posts published on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your database could be storing an extra 1,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 1,000 revisions, the total database space wasted is about 100MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin For WordPress)

Better Delete Revision removes redundant post revisions from your database as well as other revision-related content such as relationships, meta data, tags, and more.

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

Log into your WordPress admin section, then go to your navigation menu and click on choose Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Settings Menu – Better Delete Revision)

This brings you to the Better Delete Revision Manager panel. Click ’Check Revision Posts’ to calculate the number of redundant post revisions you can remove from your WordPress database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Check Revision Posts)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions belonging to each post entry, the plugin returns a list of post revisions stored in the database …

(List of revisions)

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

(Delete list of post revisions)

The unnecessary data will be cleared from your WordPress database …

(Better Delete Revision – Revisions removed)

After a period of time, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WordPress database as light as possible, since WordPress automatically begins storing all new post revisions again …

(Revisions automatically start being stored again!)

You can also use Better Delete Revisions to keep your site’s database optimized …

(Keep the database optimized)

The plugin checks to see if your database tables need to be optimized and provides a one-click table optimization routine without requiring you to log into your hosting control panel or mess with technical applications …

(Better Delete Revision checks if the database tables need optimization)

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – WordPress Plugin)

OptimizeDatabase not only can be used to prune redundant post and page revisions (with the added option of keeping a specific number of your most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click optimization maintenance routine, it also lets you perform the following:

• Delete trashed pages, posts, and comments
• Delete unused tags
• Delete ’orphan post meta items’
• Exclude selected tables and/or specific posts/pages from 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)

In addition to performing tasks such as cleaning redundant post and page revisions and checking if the WP database needs cleaning and optimization, this plugin also lets you perform database maintenance tasks such as:

• Enable/Disable comments for published posts
• Remove unapproved comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site from anywhere)
• Remove all transient options
• Clear out the post trash
• Ability to keep data from selected number of weeks when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization schedules
• See database table statistics (e.g. how much space has been cleared
• Receive email notifications on scheduled cleanup
• Displays potentially dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize Plugin – Settings Page)

For more details, go here: WP-Optimize

WP-Sweep

(WP Sweep Plugin For WordPress)

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

• Auto drafts
• Spammed comments
• Orphan term meta
• Duplicated user meta
• Transient options
• And more!

(WP Sweep – WordPress Plugin Settings)

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

In addition to the above plugins, you can view more plugins that can help you manage post revisions and optimize your WP database, go to Plugins > Add New and search for keywords like “Post Revisions“, “Optimize“, etc …

(Add New Plugins – Plugins Menu)

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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