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 WordPress Plugins

As soon as you create, edit, and update posts and pages, WordPress begins to store new revisions in its database. These show up in a Revisions box below your post or page …

(Post Editor screen – The WordPress revisions box)

Autosave and post revisions are no doubt functions that help create a more effective workflow. If you write or edit a lot of content, however, over time the revisions can start building up. This can significantly grow 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 you have 100 posts published on your site and each post has an average of 20 revisions your WordPress database could be storing up to 2,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 2,000 revisions, the total space wasted is about 200MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Plugin)

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

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

Log into your WordPress admin section and click on Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Settings – Better Delete Revision)

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 the database …

(Better Delete Revision – Check Revision Posts)

A list of post revisions stored in your WordPress database will be returned on the screen …

(Posts revisions list – Better Delete Revision)

Click on the button below the list to remove all items from your database …

(Clear list of post revisions)

The redundant post revisions will be removed from the database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Post revisions list removed)

As WordPress automatically saves post revisions, the process will automatically start again (unless you have turned the feature off). After some time has passed and depending on the number of posts you have published on your website and their associated post revisions, therefore, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WordPress database as lean as possible …

(Revisions automatically start being stored again!)

You can also use this plugin to keep the WordPress database optimized …

(Keep the database optimized – Better Delete Revision)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if the database tables need to be optimized and provides an easy one-click table optimization function without requiring you to log into your hosting control panel …

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

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision Plugin

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 remove redundant revisions of posts and pages (with the added option to keep a specific number of your most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click optimization maintenance routine, it also lets you do the following:

• Delete trashed posts, comments, and pages
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ’pingbacks’ and ‘trackbacks’
• Exclude certain tables and specific posts/pages from optimization
• Create a log file of the optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions WordPress Plugin – Settings)

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

WP Optimize

(WP Optimize)

In addition to deleting redundant revisions of posts and pages and checking if the WP database needs cleaning and optimization, WP Optimize also lets you do the following:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Remove trashed comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Remove transient options
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to retain data from selected number of weeks when cleaning up
• Option to add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization scheduling
• View database table statistics (e.g. how much space can be optimized
• Receive email notifications after automatic database cleanup
• Displays dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize Plugin – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize – WordPress Plugin

WP-Sweep

(WP Sweep)

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

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

(WPSweep Plugin For WordPress – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP-Sweep

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 type in keywords like “Post Revisions“, “Database Optimize“, etc …

(Add 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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