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 create, edit, and save your pages and posts, WordPress begins to store new revisions of your content in its database. These show up in a Revisions box below your content editor …

(The revisions list – Post Editor screen)

Autosave and revisions are no doubt features that help make work more efficient. If you write extensively, however, after a while the revisions can start to build up. This can significantly increase the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to manage your revisions.

(As post revisions accumulate, your database could be storing lots of unnecessary data)

For example, if there are 50 posts on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your WordPress database could be storing up to 1,000 copies of old data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 1,000 revisions of that post, the total space wasted is about 100MB.

The good news is that there are a number of WordPress plugins that can help you manage your revisions and reduce the size of your database. Here are a few:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin For WordPress)

This plugin removes redundant post revisions from your database and other revision-related content like meta information, relationships, tags, and more.

After the plugin has been installed and activated, Better Delete Revision can perform optimizations on your WordPress database without having to log into your server.

In the Dashboard menu, 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 how many redundant post revisions can be deleted from the database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions associated with each post entry, the plugin returns a table of post revisions stored in the database …

(List of revisions)

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

(Delete list of post revisions)

The unnecessary data will be removed from your WP database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Revisions list deleted)

As WordPress automatically saves all new revisions, the process will automatically start again (unless you have turned the feature off). After some time has passed and depending on the number of posts you have published on your website, therefore, we recommend repeating this process to keep your database as lean as possible …

(Revisions automatically start being stored again!)

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

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

Better Delete Revision checks to see if the WP database needs optimization and lets you run an easy one-click WordPress database table optimization routine without requiring you to log into your server panel or mess with technical tools …

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

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 (with the option of keeping a specific number of your most recent revisions) and checks if the WP database needs cleaning and optimization, it also lets you do the following optional maintenance tasks:

• Delete trashed comments, posts, and pages
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ’pingbacks’ and ‘trackbacks’
• Exclude certain posts/pages and tables from cleaning and optimization
• Automatically schedule optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – Settings)

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

WP Optimize

(WP-Optimize – WordPress Plugin)

In addition to deleting redundant page and post revisions and checking if the database tables need cleaning and optimization, this plugin also lets you perform maintenance tasks such as:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Removal of akismet metadata from comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site anywhere, anytime)
• Remove all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clean up auto draft posts
• 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
• Display database table statistics
• Receive email notifications after scheduled database cleanups
• Marks potentially dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize Plugin For WordPress – Settings Panel)

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

WP-Sweep

(WP-Sweep)

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

• Auto drafts
• Unapproved comments
• Orphan user meta
• Duplicated user meta
• Transient options
• And more!

(WP-Sweep Plugin – Settings)

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 “Post Revisions“, “Optimize Database“, etc …

(Plugins Menu – Add Plugins)

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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