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 Using Plugins

As soon as you update posts and pages, WordPress begins to store new revisions in its database. These appear in a Revisions section below the content editor …

(WordPress revisions box – Post Editor screen)

Having effective workflow functions like autosave and automatic revisions is undoubtedly a timesaver. If you write extensively, however, the revisions can start building up. This can significantly bloat the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to manage your revisions.

(Post revisions can really add up after a while)

For example, if there are 200 posts published on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your database could be storing up to 2,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 2,000 revisions, the total space wasted is about 200MB.

Fortunately, there are a few great WordPress plugins 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 Plugin)

This plugin deletes redundant post revisions from your WordPress database as well as other database content associated with each revision such as meta information, relationships, tags, and more.

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

Log into your Dashboard and choose Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Settings – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision)

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

(List of revisions)

Click on ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ to delete all list items from your WP database, or abandon the operation and exit the page …

(Delete posts revisions)

The unnecessary post information will be cleared from your WordPress database …

(Revisions removed)

After some time has passed, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WordPress database as light as possible, since WordPress will automatically begin saving all new post revisions again …

(WordPress automatically begins to save your revisions again!)

Like the other plugins described in this section, you can also use Better Delete Revisions to keep the WordPress database optimized …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Keep the WordPress database optimized)

The plugin checks to see if your WP database tables need to be optimized and provides an easy one-click table optimization routine without the need to log into your hosting control panel …

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

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

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 redundant post and page revisions (it also lets you keep an ’x’ amount of the most recent revisions) and checks if your WordPress database tables need optimization, it also lets you perform the following maintenance tasks:

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin – Settings Panel)

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

WP-Optimize

(WP-Optimize)

In addition to performing tasks such as deleting unnecessary revisions of posts and pages and checking if the database tables need to be optimized, this plugin also lets you do the following:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for published posts
• Remove unapproved comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site on the go)
• Remove all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clear out post trash
• Ability to keep selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Option to add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization schedules
• Display database table statistics
• Receive email notifications after scheduled cleanups
• Marks 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)

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

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

(WPSweep – WordPress Plugin 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

To 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 – 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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