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 your posts and pages, WordPress begins to store new revisions in its database. These show up in a Revisions section at the bottom of the content editor …

(Post Editor section – The WordPress post revisions box)

Autosave and post revisions are no doubt features that help make work more efficient. If you write often, however, 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 you write more posts on your site, your WordPress database could be storing lots of unnecessary data)

For example, if you have 100 posts on your site and each post has 10 revisions your database could be storing around 1,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 1,000 post revisions, the total database space wasted is about 100MB.

Fortunately, there are some great plugins for WordPress that can help you manage your revisions and reduce the size of your database. Let’s take a look at a few of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision)

Better Delete Revision removes redundant post revisions from your WordPress database as well as other database content belonging to each revision such as relationships, tags, meta information, and more.

After the plugin has been installed and activated, you can use the Better Delete Revision Manager to optimize your WP database.

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

(Settings Menu – Better Delete Revision)

This brings you to the Better Delete Revision Manager panel. Click the ‘Check Revision Posts’ button to calculate the number of redundant post revisions can be deleted from your database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision)

A table of revisions stored in the WP database will be returned on the screen …

(List of revisions – Better Delete Revision)

Click on ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ to remove all list items from the WordPress database, or exit the page with all post revisions undeleted …

(Remove posts revisions list – Better Delete Revision Manager)

The redundant post revisions will be cleared from the database …

(List of post revisions removed – Better Delete Revision Manager)

After some time has passed and depending on the amount of content you have published on your website, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WP database as lean as possible, since WordPress will automatically begin storing your post revisions again (unless you have chosen to turn the feature off) …

(Post 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)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if the WP database tables need to be optimized and runs an easy one-click optimization routine without the need to log into your server control panel …

(Better Delete Revision lets you perform a one-click table optimization maintenance routine)

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision Plugin

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions WordPress Plugin)

The Optimize Database plugin not only can be used to prune redundant revisions of posts and pages (with the option to keep a specific number of the most recent revisions) and checks if the WP database needs to be optimized, it also lets you do the following optional maintenance tasks:

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin – Settings Panel)

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

WP-Optimize

(WP Optimize – WordPress Plugin)

In addition to cleaning unnecessary post and page revisions and performing WP database optimization routines, 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 trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to keep selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization schedules
• View database table statistics
• E-mail notifications on scheduled database cleanup
• Marks dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize Plugin For WordPress – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize

WP Sweep

(WP-Sweep)

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

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

(WPSweep WordPress 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

In addition to the above plugins, you can 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 “Manage Post Revisions“, “Database Optimize“, etc …

(Add New Plugin – WordPress 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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