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 update pages and posts, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. These show up in a Revisions box at the bottom of your post or page …

(View the WordPress post revisions box – Post Editor section)

Having access to functions like autosave and automatic revisions is undoubtedly very useful. If you write and edit often, however, the revisions can start building up. This can significantly grow the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to manage your revisions.

(Post revisions can really add up after a while)

For example, if you have 10 posts published on your site and each post has an average of 5 revisions your WordPress database could be storing up to 500 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 500 revisions, the total space wasted is about 50MB.

Fortunately, there are a few great WordPress plugins to help you control and manage your revisions and reduce the size of your database. Here are some of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Plugin)

This plugin removes redundant post revisions from your WordPress database as well as database content belonging to each revision such as meta information, tags, relationships, and more.

After installing and activating the plugin, you can use it to perform optimizations on your database without having to log into your server.

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

(WordPress Settings Menu – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Better Delete Revision – Check Revision Posts)

A list of revisions stored in the database will display on the screen …

(Posts revisions)

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

(Delete posts revisions list)

The unnecessary items will be removed from your database …

(Revisions list deleted – Better Delete Revision)

As WordPress automatically stores all new revisions, the process will automatically start again. After some time has passed and depending on the number of posts you have published on your site and their related post revisions, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WordPress database as light as possible …

(WordPress will automatically begin saving your new post revisions again!)

Like the other plugins listed further below, you can also use Better Delete Revisions to optimize the site’s database …

(Keep your WordPress database optimized – Better Delete Revision)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if the WordPress database tables need optimization and provides an easy one-click table optimization maintenance routine without requiring you to log into your server control panel …

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

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin)

This plugin is similar to the one described above. It not only lets you delete redundant post and page revisions (with the option of keeping a specific number of your most recent revisions) and checks if your WP database tables need to be optimized, it also lets you do the following optional maintenance tasks:

• Delete trashed pages, posts, and comments
• Delete unused tags
• Delete ‘expired transients’
• Exclude certain posts/pages and tables 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 – WordPress Plugin

WP Optimize

(WP-Optimize – WordPress Plugin)

In addition to cleaning redundant page and post revisions and performing table optimization maintenance, this plugin also lets you perform the following maintenance tasks:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Removal of spam comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site on the go)
• Remove all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clear out post trash
• Ability to retain selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Option to add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization schedules
• Display database table statistics
• Receive email notifications after automatic database cleanups
• Highlights dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize Plugin – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize WP Plugin

WP-Sweep

(WP-Sweep WP Plugin)

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

• Auto drafts
• Spammed comments
• Orphaned comment meta
• Duplicated comment meta
• Transient options
• And more!

(WP-Sweep WP Plugin – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Sweep – WordPress 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

In addition to the above plugins, you can view 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 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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