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 Content Revisions – WordPress Plugins

As soon as you create, edit, and save posts and pages, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. These are displayed in a Revisions box at the bottom of the post editor …

(WordPress post revisions list)

Autosave and revisions are no doubt functions that help make work more productive. If you write and edit a lot of content, however, over time the revisions can start to build up. This can significantly increase the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to also be able to manage your revisions.

(Post revisions can really add up after a while)

For example, if there are 100 posts published on your site and each post has 20 revisions your database could be storing around 2,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 2,000 post revisions, the total database space wasted is about 200MB.

The good news is that there are a number of WordPress plugins to help you manage your revisions and reduce the size of your database. Let’s take a look at a few:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision WP Plugin)

This plugin deletes redundant post revisions from your WordPress database and other revision-related content such as tags, meta data, relationships, and more.

After installing and activating the plugin, Better Delete Revision can optimize your database without having to log into your server.

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

(Better Delete Revision – Settings Menu)

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

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions stored with each post, the plugin calculates and displays a table of revisions stored in your database …

(List of revisions)

Click on the ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ button below the list to clear all items from the database, or cancel the task and exit the page with your post revisions undeleted …

(Delete list of revisions)

The unnecessary data will be deleted from the database …

(Better Delete Revision – List of post revisions deleted)

After a while and depending on the number of posts you have published on your site and their related post revisions, we recommend repeating this process to keep your WP database as light as possible, since WordPress automatically begins saving all revisions again …

(Revisions automatically start again!)

You can also use Better Delete Revisions to keep your database optimized …

(Keep your site’s database optimized – Better Delete Revision Manager)

The plugin checks to see if the database needs optimization and lets you perform a one-click table optimization maintenance routine that does not require you to log into your hosting panel or use technical tools …

(Better Delete Revision checks if your WP database needs optimization)

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin For WordPress)

This plugin is similar to the one described above. It not only lets you prune redundant revisions of pages and posts (it also lets you keep a specific number of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform an easy one-click WordPress database table optimization routine, it also lets you perform optional maintenance tasks like:

• Delete trashed pages, comments, and posts
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ‘expired transients’
• Exclude selected posts/pages and tables from cleaning and optimization
• Automatically schedule optimizations
• And more!

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

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

WP-Optimize

(WP-Optimize – WordPress Plugin)

In addition to cleaning unnecessary revisions of pages and posts and performing table optimization routines, WP Optimize also lets you do the following maintenance tasks:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Removal of stale spam comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site on the go)
• Remove trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clear out the post trash
• Ability to keep data from selected number of weeks when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly schedules of optimization
• See database table statistics
• E-mail notifications after automatic cleanup
• Highlights dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize Plugin For WordPress – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize Plugin

WP-Sweep

(WP-Sweep Plugin For WordPress)

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

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

(WPSweep – Settings Page)

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

To view more plugins that can help you manage post revisions and optimize your database, go to Plugins > Add New and search for keywords like “Post 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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