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

(Post Editor section – The revisions box)

For most WordPress users, having autosave and revisions is a good thing. If you write or edit often, 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 manage your revisions.

(Post revisions can really add up after a while)

For example, if there are 100 posts published on your site and each post has an average of 10 revisions your database could be storing up to 1,000 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 1,000 revisions of that post, the total database space wasted is about 100MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin For WordPress)

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

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

In your admin area, select Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(WordPress Settings – Better Delete Revision)

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 deleted from your WP database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Check Revision Posts)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions stored with each post, the plugin returns a table of revisions stored in the WordPress database …

(Posts revisions)

Click on ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ to clear all list items from the database, or cancel the operation and exit the page …

(Remove list of post revisions)

The redundant revisions will be deleted from your database …

(Revisions removed)

After a while and depending on the amount of content you have published on your site and their related post revisions, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WordPress database as light as possible, since WordPress automatically begins storing all new revisions again (unless you have chosen to turn the feature off) …

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

Like the other plugins listed in this section, you can also use Better Delete Revisions to optimize the site’s database …

(Better Delete Revision – Optimize the database)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if your database tables need to be optimized and provides a one-click optimization routine that does not require you to log into your hosting control panel or mess with complicated database management software …

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

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision WP Plugin

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – WordPress Plugin)

OptimizeDatabase not only lets you remove redundant post and page revisions (with the option of keeping an ’x’ amount of your most recent revisions) and lets you perform an easy one-click database table optimization routine, it also lets you do the following:

• Delete trashed comments, pages, and posts
• Delete unused tags
• Delete ‘expired transients’
• Exclude selected posts/pages and tables from optimization
• Create a log file of the 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 performing tasks such as removing unnecessary revisions of posts and pages and performing table cleaning and optimization maintenance routines, WP Optimize also lets you do the following:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for published posts
• Removal of stale spam comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Remove transient options
• 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
• See database table statistics (e.g. how much space has been cleared
• Receive email notifications on scheduled cleanup
• Displays dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize WP Plugin – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize WordPress Plugin

WP-Sweep

(WP Sweep Plugin For WordPress)

In addition to optimizing your database tables and deleting unnecessary revisions, WP Sweep also cleans up:

• Auto drafts
• Spammed comments
• Orphaned user meta
• Duplicated term meta
• Transient options
• And more!

(WP Sweep – WordPress Plugin Settings)

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

In addition to the above plugins, you can view more plugins that can help you manage post revisions and optimize your WordPress database, go to Plugins > Add New and search for keywords like “Post Revisions“, “Optimize“, etc …

(WordPress Plugins Menu – Add New Plugins)

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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