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 Using Plugins

As soon as you update your posts/pages, WordPress begins to store new revisions of the content in its database. These appear in a Revisions section at the bottom of the page editor …

(Revisions list – Post Editor section)

For most users, having features like autosave and automatic revisions is undoubtedly very useful. If you write or edit a lot of content, however, the number of revisions can start to build up. This can significantly bloat the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to be able to manage your revisions.

(Your WordPress database could be storing lots of unnecessary data)

For example, if you have 100 posts published on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your WordPress database could be storing an extra 1,500 copies of unnecessary data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 1,500 post revisions, the total database space wasted is about 150MB.

The good news is that there are some great (and free) plugins available 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 WordPress Plugin)

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

After the plugin has been installed and activated, you can use the Better Delete Revision Manager to optimize your WordPress database without having to log into your server.

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

(WordPress Settings Menu – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision)

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

(List of post revisions)

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

(Clear posts revisions)

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

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Post revisions deleted)

As WordPress automatically saves your revisions, the process will automatically start again. After some time has passed, we recommend repeating this process to keep your WP database as light as possible …

(Revisions automatically start again!)

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

(Optimize your WP database – Better Delete Revision Manager)

The plugin checks to see if your WP database needs to be optimized and provides an easy one-click optimization routine that does not require you to log into your hosting control panel or mess with complicated applications …

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

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision Plugin

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin For WordPress)

This plugin is similar to the one described above. It not only lets you prune redundant post and page revisions (with the option to keep an ‘x’-amount of your most recent revisions) and lets you perform an easy one-click table optimization maintenance routine, it also lets you do the following optional tasks:

• Delete trashed pages, posts, and comments
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ’pingbacks’ and ‘trackbacks’
• Exclude selected tables and/or specific pages/posts from optimization
• Create a log file of the 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 Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as deleting redundant page and post revisions and checking if your database needs to be cleaned and optimized, this plugin also lets you perform maintenance tasks such as:

• Enable/Disable comments for all published posts
• Removal of trashed comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Remove all transient options
• Clear out the post trash
• Ability to keep data from selected number of weeks when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization schedules
• View database table statistics
• Receive email notifications on scheduled cleanup
• Highlights dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize – Settings Panel)

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 revisions, WP-Sweep also cleans up:

• Auto drafts
• Spammed comments
• Orphan term meta
• Duplicated post meta
• Transient options
• And more!

(WP Sweep – WordPress Plugin Settings Panel)

For more details, go here: WP Sweep WordPress Plugin

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

(Add 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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