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

(Post Editor screen – The Revisions box)

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

(As you write more posts, your WordPress database could be storing lots of unnecessary data)

For example, if there are 250 posts published on your site and each post has 10 revisions your database could be storing up to 2,500 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 2,500 post revisions, the total database space wasted is about 250MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin For WordPress)

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

After installing and activating the plugin, Better Delete Revision can perform optimizations on your database without having to log into your server.

Log into your WordPress dashboard, then go to the navigation menu and choose choose 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 the number of redundant post revisions you can safely delete from your WP database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Check Revision Posts)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions associated with each post, the plugin calculates and displays a table of post revisions stored in the WP database …

(Better Delete Revision – List of post revisions)

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

(Delete list of post revisions – Better Delete Revision)

The unnecessary post information will be deleted from your WP database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Post revisions list deleted)

As WordPress automatically saves all new post revisions, the process will automatically begin again. After some time has passed, therefore, we recommend running the tool again to keep your database as lean as possible …

(Post revisions automatically start again!)

You can also use Better Delete Revisions to keep your site’s database optimized …

(Keep your WordPress database optimized)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if the database needs to be optimized and lets you run an easy one-click table optimization maintenance routine that does not require you to log into your server control panel or mess with technical database management software …

(Better Delete Revision checks if your database needs to be optimized)

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision 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 remove redundant revisions of pages and posts (it also lets you keep an ‘x’-amount of your most recent revisions) and checks if the WordPress database tables need optimization, it also lets you do the following optional tasks:

• Delete trashed posts, pages, and comments
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ’pingbacks’ and ‘trackbacks’
• Exclude certain tables and specific pages/posts 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 – WordPress Plugin

WP Optimize

(WP-Optimize WP Plugin)

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

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Removal of spam comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site on the go)
• Remove all transient options
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to retain selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Option to add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization schedules
• View database table statistics (e.g. how much space can be optimized
• Receive email notifications on scheduled database cleanups
• Highlights dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize Plugin For WordPress – Settings)

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

WP-Sweep

(WP-Sweep – WordPress Plugin)

WP-Sweep lets you clean up orphaned, unused, and duplicated data in your database, including revisions. This plugin cleans up:

• Auto drafts
• Spammed comments
• Orphaned term meta
• Duplicated post meta
• Unused terms
• And more!

(WP-Sweep – WordPress Plugin Settings)

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

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 “Post Revisions“, “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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