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 edit and save pages and posts, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. These are displayed in a Revisions list below your post editor …

(Post Editor screen – The WordPress post revisions box)

For most users, having autosave and revisions is no doubt something that can help make work more productive. If you write often, however, after a while the number of revisions can start building up. This can significantly increase the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to also be able to manage your revisions.

(Your WordPress database could be storing lots of unnecessary data)

For example, if there are 100 posts published on your site and each post has an average of 10 revisions your WordPress database could be storing an extra 1,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 1,000 post revisions, the total space wasted is about 100MB.

The good news is that there are various plugins available that can help you manage your revisions and reduce the size of your WordPress database. Here are some of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision)

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

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

In your admin menu area, click on Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Settings – Better Delete Revision)

This brings you to the Better Delete Revision Manager screen. Click ’Check Revision Posts’ to calculate the number of redundant post revisions you can remove from the WP database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Posts revisions)

Click on ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ below the list to remove the items from the database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Remove list of post revisions)

The unnecessary post revisions will be removed from the database …

(Revisions deleted)

After a period of time and depending on the amount of content you have published on your site, therefore, we recommend running the tool again to keep your database as light as possible, since WordPress automatically begins storing your new revisions again …

(WordPress will automatically begin saving your post revisions again!)

Like the other plugins described further below, you can also use Better Delete Revisions to optimize your WordPress database …

(Keep the site’s database optimized)

The plugin checks to see if your database needs optimization and provides an easy one-click table optimization function that does not require you to log into your server panel …

(Better Delete Revision checks if the WordPress database needs optimization)

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions WP Plugin)

OptimizeDatabase not only lets you delete unnecessary revisions of pages and posts (with the added option of keeping an ’x’ amount of your most recent revisions) and checks if the WordPress database needs optimization, it also lets you perform the following maintenance tasks:

• Delete trashed comments, pages, and posts
• Delete unused tags
• Delete ‘expired transients’
• Exclude certain tables or specific posts/pages from optimization
• Automatically schedule optimizations
• And more!

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

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

WP Optimize

(WP-Optimize WordPress Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as cleaning redundant post and page revisions and checking if your database needs cleaning and optimization, WP Optimize also lets you do the following maintenance tasks:

• Enable/Disable comments for all published posts
• Removal of trashed comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Remove all transient options
• Clean up auto draft posts
• 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 schedules of optimization
• Display database table statistics
• E-mail notifications after scheduled cleanup
• Marks dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize – WordPress Plugin Settings Panel)

For more details, go here: WP-Optimize

WP-Sweep

(WP Sweep Plugin)

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

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

(WP-Sweep WP Plugin – Settings Screen)

For more details, go here: WP Sweep – WordPress 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 WP database, go to Plugins > Add New and type in keywords like “Revisions“, “Database Optimize“, etc …

(Add New Plugins – 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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