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 a page or post, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. These are displayed in a Revisions section at the bottom of your page or post …

(WordPress revisions list)

Having functions like autosave and revisions is no doubt something that helps make work more efficient. If you write extensively, however, the number of revisions can start to build up. This can significantly bloat the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to be able to manage your revisions.

(As post revisions accumulate, 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 your database could be storing around 1,500 copies of old data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 1,500 post revisions, the total space wasted is about 150MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin For WordPress)

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

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

Go to the WP Dashboard and select Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Settings Menu – 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 you can safely remove from the WordPress database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Check Revision Posts)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions belonging to each post entry, the plugin display a table of revisions stored in your database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Posts revisions)

Click on the ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ button to clear all list items from your WP database, or select ‘No, I prefer to keep them!’ to exit the page …

(Delete list of post revisions – Better Delete Revision)

The redundant items will be cleared from the database …

(List of revisions deleted)

As WordPress automatically stores your new post revisions, the process will automatically start again (unless you have turned the feature off). After a period of time, therefore, we recommend repeating this process to keep your database as light as possible …

(WordPress automatically begins to save your revisions again!)

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

(Optimize the database)

The plugin checks to see if your WordPress database needs optimization and runs a one-click table optimization maintenance routine without the need to log into your server panel …

(Better Delete Revision checks if your WP database tables need optimization)

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision – WordPress 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 prune redundant post and page revisions (with the option to keep an ’x’ amount of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click cleaning and optimization routine, it also lets you do the following optional tasks:

• Delete trashed comments, posts, and pages
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ‘expired transients’
• Exclude selected tables or specific posts/pages from optimization
• Create a log file of the optimizations
• And more!

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

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

WP-Optimize

(WP Optimize WordPress Plugin)

In addition to deleting unnecessary post and page revisions and checking if the database needs cleaning and optimization, WP Optimize also lets you perform the following:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Remove stale metadata from comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Removal of all transient options
• Clear out post trash
• Ability to retain data from selected number of weeks when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization schedules
• View database table statistics
• E-mail notifications after automatic database cleanup
• Highlights dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize Plugin – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize

WP Sweep

(WP Sweep)

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

• Auto drafts
• Spammed comments
• Orphan comment meta
• Duplicated post meta
• Transient options
• And more!

(WPSweep Plugin – Settings Page)

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

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 search for keywords like “Revisions“, “Database Optimize“, etc …

(Plugins Menu – Add New)

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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