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 create, edit, and update posts and pages, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. You can see these displayed in a Revisions list at the bottom of the page or post …

(Post Editor section – The WordPress post revisions list)

For most users, having access to features like autosave and revisions is no doubt a great thing. If you write often, however, after a while the revisions can start to build up. This can significantly bloat 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 you have 300 posts published on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your database could be storing an extra 6,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 6,000 revisions of that post, the total database space wasted is about 600MB.

Fortunately, there are some really great free WordPress plugins available to 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 Plugin)

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

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

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

(Better Delete Revision – 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 …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions stored with each post, the plugin display a list of revisions stored in the database …

(Posts revisions list)

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

(Better Delete Revision – Delete posts revisions)

The unnecessary items will be deleted from the WP database …

(Revisions removed – Better Delete Revision)

After a while and depending on the amount of content you have published on your website, therefore, we recommend repeating this process to keep your database as lean as possible, since WordPress will automatically begin storing your revisions again …

(WordPress automatically begins saving all new revisions again!)

Like the other plugins described in this section, you can also use this plugin to keep your site’s database optimized …

(Better Delete Revision – Optimize your WP database)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if the WP database tables need to be optimized and runs an easy one-click database optimization routine without the need to log into your hosting panel or mess with complicated database management applications …

(Better Delete Revision checks if your WP database tables need to be optimized)

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision WordPress Plugin

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions WP Plugin)

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

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin For WordPress – Settings)

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

WP-Optimize

(WP-Optimize Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as removing unnecessary post and page revisions and performing cleaning and optimization maintenance, this plugin also lets you perform database maintenance tasks such as:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Remove trashed comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site on the go)
• Remove all transient options
• 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
• Display database table statistics
• Receive email notifications on scheduled database cleanups
• Displays potentially dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize WordPress Plugin – Settings)

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

WP Sweep

(WP-Sweep – WordPress Plugin)

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

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

(WP Sweep Plugin For WordPress – Settings)

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

To 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“, “Optimize Database“, 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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