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 Using Plugins

As soon as you create, edit, and update posts and pages, WordPress begins to store revisions for your content in its database. These appear in a Revisions box below your post or page …

(View the post revisions list)

Autosave and revisions are no doubt functions that help create a more effective workflow. If you write or edit extensively, however, over time the number of revisions can start building up. This can significantly grow the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to manage your revisions.

(Post revisions can really add up after a while)

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 averages 100KB data, then with 1,500 post revisions, the total database space wasted is about 150MB.

Fortunately, there are some really great free plugins for WordPress that can help you control and manage your revisions and reduce the size of your database. Here are a few:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Plugin)

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

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

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

(Better Delete Revision – Settings)

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

(Better Delete Revision – Check Revision Posts)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions related to each post entry, the plugin returns a list of post revisions stored in the database …

(List of revisions)

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

(Remove posts revisions list)

The unnecessary revisions will be deleted from the database …

(Better Delete Revision – List of revisions deleted)

As WordPress automatically saves all new post revisions, the process will automatically begin again (unless you have chosen to turn the feature off). After some time has passed, therefore, we recommend running the tool again to keep your database as light as possible …

(Revisions automatically start being saved again!)

You can also use this plugin to keep the site’s database optimized …

(Optimize your database)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if your database needs to be optimized and provides an easy one-click optimization feature that does not require you to log into your server control panel or mess with complicated applications …

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

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision Plugin

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin)

This plugin is similar to the one described above. It not only lets you prune redundant revisions of posts and pages (it also lets you keep an ’x’ amount of your most recent revisions) and lets you perform an easy one-click table optimization routine, it also lets you perform the following:

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions WP Plugin – Settings)

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

WP Optimize

(WP Optimize)

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

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for published posts
• Removal of stale unapproved comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site anywhere, anytime)
• Remove all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clear out post trash
• Ability to keep data from selected number of weeks when cleaning up
• Option to add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization schedules
• See database table statistics (e.g. how much space has been cleared
• Receive email notifications on automatic cleanup
• Highlights dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize WP Plugin

WP-Sweep

(WP Sweep Plugin For WordPress)

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

• Auto drafts
• Deleted comments
• Orphan term meta
• Duplicated post meta
• Unused terms
• And more!

(WP Sweep Plugin For WordPress – Settings Page)

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

(Plugins Menu – Add New 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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