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

(Post revisions box)

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

(Post revisions can really add up after a while)

For example, if you have 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 revisions of that post, the total database space wasted is about 150MB.

The good news is that there are a few great plugins for WordPress available to help you manage your revisions and reduce the size of your WordPress database. Here are a few:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin)

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

After installing and activating the plugin, Better Delete Revision can optimize your database.

Log into your WordPress dashboard, then go to the admin navigation menu and choose click on 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 your database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

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

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Posts revisions)

Click on the button below the list to clear the items from your database, or choose the ‘No, …’ button to cancel the process and exit the tool with all post revisions undeleted …

(Clear posts revisions)

The unnecessary data will be deleted from your WordPress database …

(Post revisions removed – Better Delete Revision)

After a period of time, we recommend repeating this process to keep your WP database as light as possible, since WordPress automatically begins saving all post revisions again (unless you have turned the feature off) …

(Revisions automatically start being saved again!)

Like the other plugins listed in this section, you can also use Better Delete Revisions to keep the WordPress database optimized …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Keep your database optimized)

The plugin checks to see if your database tables need optimization and lets you run a one-click table optimization routine without requiring you to log into your server control panel or use technical database management applications …

(Better Delete Revision checks if the database tables need 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 remove redundant post and page revisions (it also lets you keep an ’x’ amount of your most recent revisions) and checks if your database tables need to be optimized, it also lets you perform the following:

• Delete trashed posts, pages, and comments
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ‘expired transients’
• Exclude certain posts/pages and tables 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 – WordPress Plugin)

In addition to removing unnecessary revisions of posts and pages and performing optimization maintenance routines, this plugin also lets you perform the following maintenance tasks:

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

(WP Optimize – WordPress Plugin Settings)

For more details, go here: WP-Optimize

WP-Sweep

(WP Sweep)

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

• Auto drafts
• Unapproved comments
• Orphan term meta
• Duplicated post meta
• Transient options
• And more!

(WP Sweep Plugin For WordPress – Settings Panel)

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

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 “Revisions“, “Optimize Database“, etc …

(WordPress Plugins Menu – Add New 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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