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 edit and update your pages/posts, WordPress begins to store new revisions in its database. These are displayed in a Revisions box below your content editor …

(Post Editor section – The WordPress post revisions list)

For most users, having autosave and revisions is no doubt something that helps make work more productive. If you write extensively, however, the 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 on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your database could be storing up to 2,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 2,000 revisions, the total database space wasted is about 200MB.

The good news is that there are a few great WordPress plugins that can help you control your revisions and reduce the size of your database. Let’s take a look at a few:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Plugin)

This plugin removes redundant revisions of posts from your WordPress database as well as other revision-related content like tags, meta data, relationships, and more.

After the plugin has been installed and activated, Better Delete Revision can optimize your WordPress database.

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

(WordPress Settings – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Better Delete Revision – Check Revision Posts)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions belonging to each post entry, the plugin calculates and returns a list of post revisions stored in the WordPress database …

(Better Delete Revision – Posts revisions list)

Click on the ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ button to clear all list items from your WP database …

(Clear posts revisions list – Better Delete Revision Manager)

The unnecessary items will be removed from the WordPress database …

(Revisions removed)

After a period of time and depending on the number of posts you have published on your website and their associated post revisions, therefore, we recommend running the tool again to keep your database as light as possible, since WordPress will automatically begin saving your revisions again (unless you have chosen to turn the feature off) …

(WordPress automatically begins to save post revisions again!)

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

(Keep the WP database optimized)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if your WP database tables need optimization and provides an easy one-click table optimization function without the need to log into your hosting panel or use complicated database management software …

(Better Delete Revision checks if the 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 WordPress Plugin)

The Optimize Database plugin not only can be used to delete redundant page and post revisions (it also lets you keep an ’x’ amount of your most recent revisions) and checks if your WP database needs optimization, it also lets you perform database maintenance tasks such as:

• Delete trashed comments, posts, and pages
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ’orphan postmeta items’
• Exclude selected pages/posts and tables from 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 WordPress Plugin)

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

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for published posts
• Remove stale unapproved comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site on the go)
• Removal of all transient options
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to keep selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Option to add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization schedules
• See database table statistics
• Receive email notifications after scheduled database cleanup
• Displays potentially dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize – WordPress Plugin Settings Panel)

For more details, go here: WP-Optimize Plugin

WP-Sweep

(WP-Sweep)

In addition to optimizing your database tables and deleting unnecessary revisions, this plugin also cleans up:

• Auto drafts
• Deleted comments
• Orphan post meta
• Duplicated term meta
• Unused terms
• And more!

(WP Sweep – 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

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 search for keywords like “Post Revisions“, “Optimize“, etc …

(Add New Plugin – 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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