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 create, edit, and update a post or page, WordPress begins to store new revisions of your content in its database. These are displayed in a Revisions box below your post editor …

(Revisions box)

Having access to features like autosave and revisions is no doubt a good thing. If you write and 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 300 posts on your site and each post has an average of 20 revisions your database could be storing up to 6,000 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 6,000 post revisions, the total database space wasted is about 600MB.

Fortunately, there are a number of free plugins available that can 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 – WordPress Plugin)

Better Delete Revision deletes redundant revisions of posts from your WordPress database and other database content related to each revision like meta data, tags, relationships, and more.

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

Go to your Dashboard and choose Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(WP Settings – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Check Revision Posts)

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

(Better Delete Revision Manager – List of post revisions)

Click on the ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ button below the list to clear the items from your WP database, or choose ‘No, I prefer to keep them!’ to cancel the task and exit the plugin screen …

(Remove posts revisions list)

The redundant post information will be deleted from the database …

(List of revisions cleared)

After some time has passed, we recommend running the tool again to keep your database as lean as possible, since WordPress automatically begins storing your new revisions again (unless you specifically turn the feature off) …

(Revisions automatically start again!)

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

(Keep the site’s database optimized)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if the database tables need optimization and provides an easy one-click optimization function without the need to log into your server panel or mess with technical database management tools …

(Better Delete Revision checks if your WordPress database needs to be optimized)

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions WP Plugin)

This plugin is similar to the one described above. It not only lets you delete unnecessary post and page revisions (it also lets you keep a specific number of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click cleaning and optimization maintenance routine, it also lets you perform the following:

• Delete trashed posts, pages, and comments
• Delete unused tags
• Delete ‘expired transients’
• Exclude certain pages/posts and tables from cleaning and optimization
• Create a log file of the optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – WordPress Plugin Settings Screen)

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

WP Optimize

(WP Optimize)

In addition to performing tasks such as cleaning redundant revisions of posts and pages and checking if the WordPress database tables need to be optimized, this plugin also lets you perform the following maintenance tasks:

• Enable/Disable comments for all published posts
• Remove trashed comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Remove trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clear out post trash
• 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 schedules
• See database table statistics
• Receive email notifications on automatic database cleanup
• Marks potentially dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize Plugin

WP Sweep

(WP Sweep Plugin For WordPress)

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

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

(WP-Sweep – Settings Panel)

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

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