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 update pages and posts, WordPress begins to store new revisions in its database. These are displayed in a Revisions box below the page or post …

(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 often, however, the revisions can start to build up. This can significantly grow the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to also be able to manage your revisions.

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

For example, if there are 100 posts on your site with an average of 10 revisions each you could be storing an extra 1,500 copies of unnecessary data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 1,500 revisions of that post, the total database space wasted is about 150MB.

Fortunately, there are a number of free plugins to help you control your revisions and reduce the size of your WordPress database. Let’s take a look at a few:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin)

This plugin removes redundant revisions of posts from your database as well as database content related to each revision like meta data, tags, relationships, and more.

After installing and activating the plugin, Better Delete Revision can optimize your WP database.

Log into your WordPress site, then go to your navigation menu and select click on Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(WordPress 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 …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions related to each post entry, the plugin will then calculate and display a list of revisions stored in the WP database …

(Posts revisions – Better Delete Revision Manager)

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

(Delete posts revisions)

The redundant items will be removed from your WP database …

(Revisions removed)

After a period of time, therefore, we recommend running the tool again to keep your database as light as possible, since WordPress will automatically begin to store your post revisions again …

(WordPress will automatically begin storing post revisions again!)

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

(Keep your database optimized)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if the WP database tables need optimization and performs a one-click table optimization routine that does not require you to log into your server panel …

(Better Delete Revision lets you perform an easy one-click optimization maintenance routine)

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions)

This plugin is similar to the one described above. It not only lets you prune redundant page and post revisions (it also lets you keep a specific number of your most recent revisions) and checks if the WordPress database needs to be cleaned and optimized, it also lets you do the following:

• Delete trashed pages, comments, and posts
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ’pingbacks’ and ‘trackbacks’
• Exclude selected tables or even 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 – WordPress Plugin)

In addition to deleting unnecessary page and post revisions and checking if the WP database tables need to be cleaned and optimized, WP Optimize also lets you do maintenance tasks such as:

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

(WP Optimize Plugin – Settings Screen)

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

WP-Sweep

(WP Sweep WP Plugin)

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

• Auto drafts
• Unapproved comments
• Orphaned post meta
• Duplicated post meta
• Unused terms
• And more!

(WP-Sweep – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Sweep 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 type in keywords like “Revisions“, “Database Optimize“, etc …

(Add New – WordPress 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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