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 WordPress Plugins

As soon as you create, edit, and save pages and posts, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. These show up in a Revisions box below the page editor …

(Post revisions list)

Autosave and revisions are no doubt features that help make work more productive. If you write or edit extensively, however, the number of revisions can start to build up. This can significantly increase the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to also be able to manage your revisions.

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

For example, if there are 200 posts published on your site and each post has an average of 10 revisions you could be storing around 2,000 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 2,000 revisions of that post, the total space wasted is about 200MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin For WordPress)

This plugin deletes redundant post revisions from your WordPress database as well as 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 it to perform optimizations on your WordPress database without having to log into your server.

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

(Better Delete Revision – WP Settings)

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

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Check Revision Posts)

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

(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 …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Clear posts revisions list)

The redundant post revisions will be removed from the WP database …

(Post revisions removed – Better Delete Revision Manager)

As WordPress automatically stores post revisions, the process will automatically begin again. After a while and depending on the number of posts you have published on your website and their related post revisions, therefore, we recommend repeating this process to keep your database as lean as possible …

(WordPress will automatically begin saving all new revisions again!)

You can also use this plugin to optimize your WordPress database …

(Keep your database optimized)

The plugin checks to see if the database needs to be optimized and runs a one-click optimization maintenance routine that does not require you to log into your server control panel or use technical software …

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

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision – WordPress 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 prune redundant post and page revisions (with the option of keeping a specific number of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click WordPress database table cleaning and optimization routine, it also lets you do the following:

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – WordPress Plugin Settings)

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

WP-Optimize

(WP-Optimize Plugin)

In addition to deleting redundant page and post revisions and checking if the database needs to be optimized, WP Optimize also lets you perform the following maintenance tasks:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for published posts
• Remove trashed comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Removal of all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clear out post trash
• Ability to retain selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization scheduling
• View database table statistics (e.g. how much space can be optimized
• Receive email notifications on scheduled cleanup
• Displays dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize WordPress Plugin – Settings Screen)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize Plugin

WP Sweep

(WP-Sweep)

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

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

(WPSweep – Settings Screen)

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 WP database, go to Plugins > Add New and type in keywords like “Revisions“, “Database Optimize“, etc …

(Plugins Menu – Add Plugin)

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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