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 edit and save posts and pages, WordPress begins to store revisions for the content in its database. These show up in a Revisions section below your post editor …

(Viewing the revisions box)

Autosave and revisions are no doubt features that help make work more productive. If you write and edit extensively, however, the revisions can start building up. This can significantly bloat the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to also be able to manage your revisions.

(Post revisions can really add up after a while)

For example, if there are 200 posts on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your database could be storing up to 2,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 2,000 post revisions, the total space wasted is about 200MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin For WordPress)

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

After installing and activating the plugin, Better Delete Revision can optimize your WordPress database without having to log into your server.

In your Dashboard menu area, choose Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Better Delete Revision – Settings)

This brings you to the Better Delete Revision Manager screen. Click ’Check Revision Posts’ to calculate how many redundant post revisions can be deleted from the WordPress database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions belonging to each post, the plugin will then calculate and return a list of revisions stored in your WordPress database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Posts revisions)

Click on the ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ button to delete all list items from the database, or cancel the task and exit the Better Delete Revision Manager screen with your post revisions undeleted …

(Better Delete Revision – Clear list of post revisions)

The redundant post information will be deleted from the WP database …

(Post revisions list cleared)

As WordPress automatically saves post revisions, the process will automatically start again (unless you have turned the feature off). After some time has passed and depending on the amount of content you have published on your site, we recommend repeating this process to keep your database as lean as possible …

(WordPress automatically begins storing your post revisions again!)

Like the other plugins listed in this section, you can also use the plugin to optimize the database …

(Optimize your site’s database)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if the WordPress database needs optimization and provides an easy one-click WordPress database table optimization maintenance routine without the need to log into your hosting panel …

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

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin For WordPress)

OptimizeDatabase not only can be used to remove redundant post and page revisions (it also lets you keep an ’x’ amount of your most recent revisions) and checks if your WP database needs cleaning and optimization, it also lets you perform the following maintenance tasks:

• Delete trashed posts, pages, and comments
• Delete unused tags
• Delete ’pingbacks’ and ‘trackbacks’
• Exclude certain pages/posts and tables from optimization
• Create a log file of the optimizations
• And more!

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

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

WP-Optimize

(WP-Optimize Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as removing unnecessary page and post revisions and checking if the database needs cleaning and optimization, this plugin also lets you do the following maintenance tasks:

• Enable/Disable comments for all published posts
• Removal of unapproved comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site anywhere, anytime)
• Removal of all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clear out 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 schedules of optimization
• Display database table statistics
• E-mail notifications on scheduled cleanups
• Displays potentially dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize Plugin – Settings)

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

WP Sweep

(WP Sweep – WordPress Plugin)

In addition to optimizing your database tables and deleting unnecessary post revisions, this plugin also cleans up:

• Auto drafts
• Unapproved comments
• Orphaned comment meta
• Duplicated post meta
• Transient options
• And more!

(WPSweep Plugin For WordPress – Settings Page)

For more details, go here: WP Sweep

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 database, go to Plugins > Add New and search for keywords like “Post Revisions“, “Optimize Database“, 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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