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 Content Revisions – WordPress Plugins

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

(WordPress post revisions box)

Having features like autosave and revisions is undoubtedly a timesaver. If you write or edit often, however, the number of revisions can start to build up. This can significantly increase 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 200 posts published on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your WordPress database could be storing up to 3,000 copies of old data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 3,000 revisions, the total database space wasted is about 300MB.

Fortunately, there are a number of WordPress plugins available to 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 WP Plugin)

This plugin removes redundant post revisions from your WordPress database and database content associated with each revision such as relationships, meta data, tags, and more.

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

Go to your administration section and click on Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(WP Settings Menu – 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 you can remove from the database …

(Better Delete Revision – Check Revision Posts)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions related to each post, the plugin displays a table of post revisions stored in the WP database …

(List of post revisions – Better Delete Revision Manager)

Click on ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ to remove all list items from your database …

(Remove posts revisions list – Better Delete Revision Manager)

The unnecessary items will be removed from the WP database …

(Revisions list cleared – Better Delete Revision)

As WordPress automatically stores all new post revisions, the process will automatically start again (unless you have turned the feature off). After some time has passed and depending on the number of posts you have published on your website, therefore, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WordPress database as light as possible …

(Revisions automatically start being stored again!)

You can also use Better Delete Revisions to keep the site’s database optimized …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Keep your WordPress database optimized)

The plugin checks to see if your WordPress database tables need optimization and provides an easy one-click table optimization function without requiring you to log into your server panel or use complicated applications …

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

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision Plugin

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin For WordPress)

The Optimize Database plugin not only can be used to prune unnecessary revisions of posts and pages (with the added option to keep a specific number of your most recent revisions) and checks if the WordPress database tables need to be trimmed, cleaned, and optimized, it also lets you do the following:

• Delete trashed pages, posts, and comments
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ’orphan postmeta items’
• Exclude certain tables and/or specific posts/pages from cleaning and optimization
• Automatically schedule optimizations
• And more!

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

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

WP-Optimize

(WP Optimize – WordPress Plugin)

In addition to removing unnecessary revisions of pages and posts and performing WP database cleaning and optimization routines, this plugin also lets you perform database maintenance tasks such as:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for published posts
• Removal of stale unapproved comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site on the go)
• Remove transient options
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to keep selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Option to add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly schedules of optimization
• Display database table statistics
• E-mail notifications after scheduled database cleanups
• Marks potentially dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize Plugin – Settings Page)

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

WP Sweep

(WP-Sweep)

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

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

(WPSweep WordPress Plugin – Settings)

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

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

(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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