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 Content Revisions – WordPress Plugins

As soon as you update pages and posts, WordPress begins to store new revisions of the content in its database. You can see these displayed in a Revisions box at the bottom of your post editor …

(WordPress post revisions box)

Autosave and post revisions are no doubt functions that help create a more effective workflow. If you write or edit often, 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.

(Your database could be storing lots of unnecessary data)

For example, if there are 300 posts published on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your database could be storing up to 6,000 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 6,000 revisions, the total database space wasted is about 600MB.

Fortunately, there are some great (and free) plugins to 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)

This plugin removes redundant revisions of posts from your database and database content related to each revision such as relationships, meta data, 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 the WP admin section and click on Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Better Delete Revision – Settings Menu)

This brings you to the Better Delete Revision Manager screen. Click the ‘Check Revision Posts’ button to calculate the number of redundant post revisions you can safely remove from your WordPress database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision)

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

(List of post revisions)

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

(Better Delete Revision – Clear posts revisions list)

The unnecessary revisions will be removed from your WP database …

(List of post revisions deleted)

As WordPress automatically saves your revisions, the process will automatically start again. After a while, therefore, we recommend repeating this process to keep your WP database as light as possible …

(WordPress will automatically begin saving your revisions again!)

You can also use this plugin to keep the site’s database optimized …

(Optimize your database – Better Delete Revision)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if the WP database needs optimization and performs a one-click WordPress database optimization routine without the need to log into your server panel or mess with technical software …

(Better Delete Revision lets you perform a one-click table optimization maintenance routine)

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision

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 revisions of pages and posts (it also lets you keep a specific number of your most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click optimization maintenance routine, it also lets you perform the following maintenance tasks:

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

WP Optimize

(WP Optimize Plugin For WordPress)

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

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Removal of trashed comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Remove trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clear out post trash
• 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
• E-mail notifications after scheduled database cleanups
• Displays potentially dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize Plugin – Settings Panel)

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

WP Sweep

(WP-Sweep WordPress Plugin)

WP Sweep allows you to clean up orphaned, duplicated, and unused data in the WP database, including post revisions. This plugin cleans up:

• Auto drafts
• Spammed comments
• Orphaned term meta
• Duplicated term meta
• Transient options
• 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

For more plugins that can help you manage post revisions and optimize your database, go to Plugins > Add New and search for keywords like “Manage Revisions“, “Optimize“, etc …

(Add New – WordPress 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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