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 – WordPress Plugins

As soon as you create, edit, and update your pages/posts, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. These are displayed in a Revisions list at the bottom of the post or page …

(Post Editor screen – Viewing the WordPress post revisions list)

Autosave and revisions are no doubt functions that help make work more productive. If you write and edit a lot of content, however, after a while the number of revisions can start building up. This can significantly grow the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to be able to manage your revisions.

(Post revisions can really add up after a while)

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

The good news is that there are a number of plugins that can help you control and manage your revisions and reduce the size of your database. Here are a few of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin)

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

After installing and activating the plugin, the plugin can perform optimizations on your database.

In your WP administration section, choose Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Better Delete Revision – WP Settings Menu)

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

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

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

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Posts revisions)

Click on the ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ button below the list to delete the items from the database, or select the ‘No, I prefer to keep them!’ button to cancel the operation and exit the plugin screen …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Delete list of revisions)

The redundant data will be removed from the database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Revisions list cleared)

After a while, therefore, we recommend repeating this process to keep your WP database as lean as possible, since WordPress automatically begins storing your new revisions again (unless you have chosen to turn the feature off) …

(Post revisions automatically start being stored again!)

Like the other plugins described further below, you can also use this plugin to optimize your WP database …

(Better Delete Revision – Keep your site’s database optimized)

The plugin checks to see if your WP database needs to be optimized and provides an easy one-click table optimization routine that does not require you to log into your hosting panel or use technical tools …

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

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – WordPress Plugin)

OptimizeDatabase not only lets you remove redundant page and post revisions (with the option to keep a specific number of your most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click optimization maintenance routine, it also lets you do the following optional maintenance tasks:

• Delete trashed comments, pages, and posts
• Delete unused tags
• Delete ‘expired transients’
• Exclude selected tables and/or specific posts/pages from cleaning and optimization
• Automatically schedule optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – Settings Page)

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

WP Optimize

(WP Optimize Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as deleting redundant post and page revisions and performing database cleaning and optimization routines, this plugin also lets you perform maintenance tasks like:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for published posts
• Removal of stale unapproved comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site on the go)
• Removal of all transient options
• Clear out the post trash
• Ability to retain selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization scheduling
• See database table statistics (e.g. how much space can be optimized
• E-mail notifications on automatic cleanup
• Displays dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize – WordPress Plugin Settings Panel)

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

WP Sweep

(WP Sweep WP Plugin)

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

• Auto drafts
• Unapproved comments
• Orphaned term relationships
• Duplicated comment meta
• Unused terms
• And more!

(WP-Sweep WordPress Plugin – Settings Page)

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

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 type in keywords like “Manage Revisions“, “Optimize Database“, 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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