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 Revisions – WordPress Plugins

As soon as you save posts and pages, WordPress begins to store new revisions of the content in its database. You can see these displayed in a Revisions section below the content editor …

(View the WordPress revisions list)

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

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

For example, if you have 50 posts published on your site and each post has an average of 20 revisions your WordPress database could be storing up to 1,000 copies of old data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 1,000 revisions of that post, the total database space wasted is about 100MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Plugin)

This plugin deletes redundant post revisions from your WordPress database and database content associated with each revision like relationships, meta data, tags, and more.

After installing and activating the plugin, you can perform optimizations on your WP database.

In your WordPress Dashboard, click on Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Better Delete Revision – Settings)

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

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Posts revisions list)

Click on the button below the list to delete all items from your WP database, or exit the tool …

(Clear list of post revisions)

The redundant post revisions will be deleted from your database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Post revisions list deleted)

After a while and depending on the number of posts you have published on your site, therefore, we recommend repeating this process to keep your WP database as lean as possible, since WordPress will automatically begin to store all post revisions again …

(WordPress will automatically begin saving your post revisions again!)

Like the other plugins described further below, you can also use the plugin to keep the WP database optimized …

(Keep your WordPress database optimized – Better Delete Revision)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if your database tables need to be optimized and performs an easy one-click database table optimization routine without the need to log into your server control panel …

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

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin For WordPress)

The Optimize Database plugin not only lets you remove unnecessary post and page revisions (it also lets you keep a specific number of your most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click optimization routine, it also lets you do the following optional maintenance tasks:

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin – Settings)

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

WP Optimize

(WP Optimize)

In addition to deleting redundant revisions of pages and posts and performing database optimization maintenance, WP Optimize also lets you do maintenance tasks like:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Removal of trashed comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site anywhere, anytime)
• Remove all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to retain data from selected number of weeks when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly schedules of optimization
• Display database table statistics
• E-mail notifications on scheduled database cleanups
• Displays potentially dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize Plugin For WordPress – Settings Screen)

For more details, go here: WP-Optimize

WP Sweep

(WP-Sweep WP 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 user meta
• Unused terms
• And more!

(WPSweep – Settings Panel)

For more details, go here: WP-Sweep

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“, “Database Optimize“, etc …

(WordPress Plugins Menu – Add New)

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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