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.

Revision Management Plugins

As soon as you edit and save a page/post, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. These show up in a Revisions box below the content editor …

(View the WordPress post revisions list – Post Editor screen)

For most users, having autosave and automatic revisions is a good thing. If you write and edit often, however, the revisions can start to build up. This can significantly increase the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to also be able to manage your revisions.

(Post revisions can really add up after a while)

For example, if there are 200 posts published on your site and each post has 15 revisions your WordPress database could be storing an extra 3,000 copies of old data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 3,000 revisions of that post, the total space wasted is about 300MB.

Fortunately, there are some really great free plugins that can help you manage your revisions and reduce the size of your database. Here are a few of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision WP Plugin)

This plugin deletes redundant revisions of posts from your WordPress database and other database content related to each revision such as relationships, meta data, tags, and more.

After the plugin has been installed and activated, you can perform optimizations on your WP database.

In the WP Dashboard, click on Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Settings Menu – Better Delete Revision)

This brings you to the Better Delete Revision Manager panel. Click the ‘Check Revision Posts’ button to calculate how many redundant post revisions can be safely deleted from the database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Check Revision Posts)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions related to each post entry, the plugin displays a table of revisions stored in the WordPress database …

(Posts revisions)

Click on the ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ button to delete all list items from the WordPress database, or choose ‘No, I prefer to keep them!’ to cancel the process and exit the tool …

(Delete list of post revisions)

The redundant revisions will be cleared from your database …

(Revisions cleared – Better Delete Revision)

As WordPress automatically stores your new post revisions, the process will automatically start again. After a while 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 database as light as possible …

(Post revisions automatically start being stored again!)

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

(Keep your site’s database optimized)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if your database needs to be optimized and runs an easy one-click WordPress database table optimization routine without the need to log into your hosting control panel or use technical applications …

(Better Delete Revision lets you perform a one-click WordPress database optimization routine)

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions)

The Optimize Database plugin not only can be used to prune redundant revisions of posts and pages (it also lets you keep an ‘x’-amount of the most recent revisions) and checks if your WP database needs cleaning and optimization, it also lets you do the following:

• Delete trashed posts, pages, and comments
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ‘expired transients’
• Exclude selected pages/posts and tables from optimization
• Automatically schedule optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – Settings)

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

WP Optimize

(WP Optimize)

In addition to performing tasks such as removing unnecessary page and post revisions and performing database table optimization routines, WP Optimize also lets you perform maintenance tasks such as:

• Enable/Disable comments for all published posts
• Remove stale spam comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Remove 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 optimization scheduling
• Display database table statistics
• E-mail notifications after automatic cleanups
• Marks potentially dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize WP Plugin – Settings Screen)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize

WP Sweep

(WP Sweep Plugin For WordPress)

WP Sweep lets you clean up duplicated, unused, and orphaned data in your database, including post revisions. This plugin cleans up:

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

(WP Sweep – WordPress Plugin Settings Screen)

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

For more plugins that can help you manage post revisions and optimize your database, go to Plugins > Add New and type in keywords like “Manage Revisions“, “Database 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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