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 update your pages/posts, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. These appear in a Revisions box below the page or post …

(Viewing the WordPress post revisions list – Post Editor section)

Having effective workflow functions like autosave and revisions is no doubt something that helps make work more efficient. If you write a lot of content, however, over time the revisions can start building up. This can significantly grow the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to also be able to manage your revisions.

(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 an extra 1,500 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 1,500 post revisions, the total database space wasted is about 150MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Plugin)

Better Delete Revision removes redundant revisions of posts from your database and database content associated with each revision like relationships, tags, meta data, and more.

After the plugin has been installed and activated, the plugin can optimize your database.

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

(Settings – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Check Revision Posts)

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

(List of post revisions)

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

(Remove list of revisions – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Post revisions list deleted)

After some time has passed and depending on the number of posts you have published on your website, therefore, we recommend running the tool again to keep your database as lean as possible, since WordPress automatically begins to store your new post revisions again (unless you have turned the feature off) …

(WordPress automatically begins saving all new post revisions again!)

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

(Keep your database optimized – Better Delete Revision)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if your WP database needs optimization and lets you run a one-click optimization routine without requiring you to log into your server panel or use technical database management applications …

(Better Delete Revision checks if the WP database needs to be optimized)

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision 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 delete redundant revisions of pages and posts (it also lets you keep a specific number of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click database cleaning and optimization routine, it also lets you perform the following maintenance tasks:

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin – Settings)

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

WP-Optimize

(WP Optimize WP Plugin)

In addition to cleaning unnecessary post and page revisions and checking if the WordPress database tables need to be cleaned and optimized, this plugin also lets you do the following maintenance tasks:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Removal of trashed comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Remove trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clear out 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 optimization schedules
• Display database table statistics (e.g. how much space can be optimized
• E-mail notifications after scheduled cleanups
• Marks dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize – WordPress Plugin Settings Page)

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

WP Sweep

(WP Sweep)

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

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

(WP-Sweep – 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

For more plugins that can help you manage post revisions and optimize your database, go to Plugins > Add New and type in keywords like “Manage Revisions“, “Database Optimize“, etc …

(Add Plugin – 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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