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.

Post & Page Revision Management Using Plugins

As soon as you create, edit, and save your pages/posts, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. These show up in a Revisions box below the page or post …

(The revisions box – Post Editor screen)

For most WordPress users, having autosave and automatic revisions is a timesaver. If you write extensively, however, over time 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.

(Your database could be storing lots of unnecessary data)

For example, if you have 200 posts published on your site and each post has 20 revisions you could be storing up to 4,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 4,000 post revisions, the total database space wasted is about 400MB.

Fortunately, there are some really great free plugins for WordPress to help you manage your revisions and reduce the size of your database. Here are some of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Plugin)

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

After the plugin has been installed and activated, you can optimize your WP database.

Log into your WordPress dashboard, then go to your navigation menu and select choose Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Better Delete Revision – Settings Menu)

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

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Posts revisions – Better Delete Revision)

Click on the button below the list to delete the items from your database, or select ‘No, I prefer to keep them!’ to abandon the task and exit the page …

(Remove posts revisions list – Better Delete Revision)

The unnecessary post information will be cleared from the WordPress database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – List of post revisions deleted)

As WordPress automatically stores your revisions, the process will automatically begin again. After a while and depending on the amount of content you have published on your site, we recommend repeating this process to keep your WordPress database as lean as possible …

(WordPress will automatically begin saving post revisions again!)

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

(Better Delete Revision – Keep the WP database optimized)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if your database needs optimization and lets you perform a one-click WordPress database optimization routine that does not require you to log into your hosting panel or use technical database management tools …

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

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions)

OptimizeDatabase not only lets you remove redundant post and page revisions (it also lets you keep a specific number of your most recent revisions) and checks if the database needs optimization, it also lets you do the following:

• Delete trashed pages, comments, 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)

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

WP Optimize

(WP Optimize)

In addition to deleting redundant revisions of posts and pages and checking if the database tables need to be cleaned and optimized, this plugin also lets you perform maintenance tasks such as:

• Enable/Disable comments for published posts
• Removal of trashed comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site anywhere, anytime)
• Remove transient options
• Clear out the 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
• Receive email notifications after scheduled database cleanup
• Marks potentially dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize Plugin For WordPress – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP-Optimize

WP Sweep

(WP-Sweep Plugin)

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

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

(WP Sweep – Settings)

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

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

(Plugins Menu – Add New 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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