WordPress Plugins For Managing WordPress Post Revisions

In this tutorial, we look at a number of WordPress plugins that will help you manage your post revisions.

WordPress Plugins For Managing WordPress Post Revisions

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 update pages and posts, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. These are displayed in a Revisions list at the bottom of the page or post …

The WordPress post revisions box

(Post Editor section – Viewing the WordPress revisions box)

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

Your database could be storing lots of unnecessary data

(Post revisions can really add up after a while)

For example, if there are 100 posts on your site and each post has an average of 20 revisions your WordPress database could be storing up to 2,000 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 2,000 post revisions, the total space wasted is about 200MB.

Fortunately, there are some great plugins available to help you 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

(Better Delete Revision WordPress Plugin)

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

After installing and activating the plugin, Better Delete Revision can optimize your database.

Log into the administration section and select Settings > Better Delete Revision

WP Settings - Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision – WP 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 can be safely removed from your database …

Better Delete Revision - Check Revision Posts

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

A list of post revisions stored in the database will display on the screen …

Posts revisions

(List of post revisions – Better Delete Revision Manager)

Click on ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ to clear all list items from the WordPress database, or choose ‘No, I prefer to keep them!’ to exit the plugin with your post revisions undeleted …

Delete posts revisions - Better Delete Revision Manager

(Delete posts revisions – Better Delete Revision Manager)

The redundant revisions will be removed from the WordPress database …

Better Delete Revision Manager - Revisions list cleared

(Revisions removed – Better Delete Revision Manager)

Practical Tip

As WordPress automatically stores your new post revisions, the process will automatically begin again. After a while, we recommend repeating this process to keep your database as light as possible …

WordPress will automatically begin to store all new revisions again!

(WordPress will automatically begin storing all post revisions again!)

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

Optimize your WordPress database - Better Delete Revision

(Keep your site’s database optimized)

The plugin checks to see if your WP database tables need to be optimized and provides an easy one-click table optimization routine without requiring you to log into your hosting control panel …

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

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

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision Plugin

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – WordPress Plugin)

OptimizeDatabase not only can be used to remove redundant page and post revisions (it also lets you keep an ‘x’-amount of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click table optimization routine, it also lets you do the following maintenance tasks:

  • Delete trashed posts, comments, and pages
  • Delete unused tags
  • Delete ‘expired transients’
  • Exclude selected tables or specific pages/posts from optimization
  • Create a log file of the optimizations
  • And more!

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin For WordPress - Settings Panel

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin For WordPress – Settings Screen)

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

WP Optimize

WP-Optimize

(WP Optimize WP Plugin)

In addition to cleaning redundant page and post revisions and checking if your database tables need cleaning and optimization, this plugin also lets you do the following:

  • Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
  • Remove stale spam comments
  • Mobile device friendly (optimize your site from anywhere)
  • Removal of all trackbacks and pingbacks
  • 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
  • See database table statistics (e.g. how much space has been cleared
  • Receive email notifications on automatic cleanup
  • Displays potentially dangerous cleanup items in red
  • And more!

WP Optimize - WordPress Plugin Settings Page

(WP-Optimize – Settings)

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

WP Sweep

WP-Sweep Plugin For WordPress

(WP-Sweep WP Plugin)

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

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

WPSweep - Settings Page

(WPSweep WordPress Plugin – Settings Panel)

For more details, go here: WP-Sweep Plugin For WordPress

Simple Revisions Delete

Simple Revisions Delete
Simple Revisions Delete – WordPress plugin

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.

Publish box - Revisions: Purge link.
Click the Purge link to delete post revisions from your WordPress database.

For more details, go here: Simple Revisions Delete

WP REVISIONS CONTROL

WP Revisions Control
WP Revisions Control

This plugin lets you specify the number of revisions retained for each post type in the Settings > Writing screen.

WP Revisions Control Settings
WP Revisions Control Settings.

For more details, go here: WP Revisions Control

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

Plugins Menu - Add Plugins

(Add Plugins – Plugins Menu)

We hope that you have found the above information on plugins that will help you manage your WordPress post revisions useful.

WordPress Plugins For Managing WordPress Post Revisions

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