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 Plugins

As soon as you create, edit, and update pages and posts, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. These are displayed in a Revisions list below your page editor …

(Post Editor screen – Viewing the WordPress revisions box)

Autosave and post revisions are no doubt functions that help make work more efficient. If you write and edit extensively, however, 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.

(Post revisions can really add up after a while)

For example, if there are 100 posts published 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 is approximately 100KB data, then with 1,500 revisions of that post, the total database space wasted is about 150MB.

The good news is that there are several WordPress plugins to help you control 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 Plugin)

Better Delete Revision deletes redundant revisions of posts from your WordPress database and other revision-related content such as meta information, tags, relationships, and more.

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

Log into your Dashboard and click on Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Settings)

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

(Better Delete Revision – Check Revision Posts)

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

(Better Delete Revision – List of revisions)

Click on the ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ button to remove all list items from your database, or exit the tool …

(Remove posts revisions list)

The redundant revisions will be removed from your WordPress database …

(Better Delete Revision – Revisions list removed)

As WordPress automatically stores post revisions, the process will automatically start again. After a while, therefore, we recommend repeating this process to keep your WordPress database as light as possible …

(Revisions automatically start again!)

Like the other plugins described in this section, you can also use the plugin to optimize your database …

(Optimize the site’s database)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if your WordPress database needs to be optimized and provides an easy one-click database optimization feature that does not require you to log into your hosting control panel or use complicated database management software …

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

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision Plugin

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin For WordPress)

The Optimize Database plugin not only can be used to prune unnecessary revisions of pages and posts (it also lets you keep a specific number of your most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click table optimization maintenance routine, it also lets you do the following optional tasks:

• Delete trashed posts, comments, and pages
• Delete unused tags
• Delete ’orphan post meta items’
• Exclude specific posts/pages and tables from optimization
• Automatically schedule optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin – Settings Page)

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

WP-Optimize

(WP Optimize Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as cleaning redundant revisions of pages and posts and performing WP database table optimization maintenance, WP Optimize also lets you perform the following maintenance tasks:

• Enable/Disable comments for all published posts
• Removal of trashed comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Removal of all transient options
• Clear out the 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 scheduling
• Display database table statistics (e.g. how much space can be optimized
• Receive email notifications after automatic database cleanup
• Displays dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize Plugin – Settings)

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

WP Sweep

(WP Sweep Plugin)

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

• Auto drafts
• Spammed comments
• Orphan term relationships
• Duplicated term meta
• Transient options
• And more!

(WPSweep – 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

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 type in keywords like “Manage Post Revisions“, “Optimize Database“, etc …

(Add New Plugins – 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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