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 create, edit, and save a post/page, WordPress begins to store new revisions in its database. These show up in a Revisions section below your post or page …

(Post Editor screen – The WordPress post revisions box)

For most users, having access to workflow functions like autosave and revisions is undoubtedly something that contributes to making work more productive. If you write or edit a lot of content, however, the number of 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.

(As you write more posts on your site, your WordPress database could be storing lots of unnecessary data)

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

The good news is that there are various plugins to help you control and manage your revisions and reduce the size of your WordPress database. Here are a few of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin For WordPress)

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

After the plugin has been installed and activated, you can use the Better Delete Revision Manager to optimize your database without having to log into your server.

Go to the WP Dashboard and click on Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Settings)

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

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Better Delete Revision Manager – List of revisions)

Click on ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ to remove all list items from the WordPress database, or select the ‘No, …’ button to exit the plugin …

(Delete posts revisions list)

The redundant revisions will be deleted from your WordPress database …

(List of post revisions cleared – Better Delete Revision Manager)

After a while, we recommend running the tool again to keep your database as lean as possible, since WordPress will automatically begin saving all new post revisions again (unless you have turned the feature off) …

(Revisions automatically start again!)

You can also use Better Delete Revisions to optimize the database …

(Keep your WP database optimized – Better Delete Revision)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if your WP database needs optimization and provides an easy one-click optimization routine without the need to log into your hosting panel or use technical software …

(Better Delete Revision checks if the database needs optimization)

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – WordPress Plugin)

This plugin is similar to the one described above. It not only lets you prune unnecessary revisions of posts and pages (it also lets you keep an ‘x’-amount of your most recent revisions) and checks if your database tables need to be cleaned and optimized, it also lets you do the following optional tasks:

• Delete trashed comments, pages, and posts
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ’orphan post meta items’
• Exclude certain pages/posts and tables from cleaning and optimization
• Create a log file of the optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin – Settings)

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

WP Optimize

(WP Optimize Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as deleting redundant post and page revisions and performing table optimization routines, WP Optimize also lets you do the following maintenance tasks:

• Enable/Disable comments for published posts
• Remove stale spam comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site on the go)
• Remove transient options
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to retain selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization schedules
• Display database table statistics
• Receive email notifications on automatic database cleanups
• Displays potentially dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize Plugin For WordPress – Settings Screen)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize WordPress Plugin

WP Sweep

(WP-Sweep Plugin)

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

• Auto drafts
• Unapproved comments
• Orphan term relationships
• Duplicated term meta
• Unused terms
• And more!

(WP-Sweep – Settings Page)

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 database, go to Plugins > Add New and type in keywords like “Post Revisions“, “Optimize Database“, etc …

(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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