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 save your posts and pages, WordPress begins to store new revisions in its database. These appear in a Revisions box at the bottom of your post editor …

(Post Editor screen – View the WordPress revisions box)

Autosave and post revisions are no doubt functions that help make work more efficient. If you write or edit extensively, however, after a while the revisions can start building up. This can significantly grow 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 you have 10 posts on your site and each post has 5 revisions you could be storing up to 500 copies of old data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 500 revisions, the total space wasted is about 50MB.

Fortunately, there are some really great (and free) plugins that can help you control and manage your revisions and reduce the size of your WordPress database. Here are some of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision)

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

After the plugin has been installed and activated, you can perform optimizations on your WordPress database without having to log into your server.

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

(Settings Menu – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

A list of post revisions stored in your WP database will display on the screen …

(List of post revisions)

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

(Delete list of revisions)

The redundant revisions will be removed from the database …

(List of revisions removed)

As WordPress automatically saves all new post revisions, the process will automatically start again (unless you have turned the feature off). After some time has passed, therefore, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WordPress database as lean as possible …

(WordPress will automatically begin storing all revisions again!)

You can also use this plugin to optimize your WP database …

(Optimize your site’s database)

The plugin checks to see if the database tables need optimization and performs an easy one-click table optimization routine that does not require you to log into your server control panel or use complicated database management tools …

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

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision Plugin

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin For WordPress)

OptimizeDatabase not only can be used to remove redundant revisions of pages and posts (with the added option to keep an ’x’ amount of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click table optimization routine, it also lets you do database maintenance tasks such as:

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin – Settings Screen)

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

WP-Optimize

(WP Optimize – WordPress Plugin)

In addition to cleaning redundant page and post revisions and checking if your WordPress database needs to be cleaned and optimized, WP Optimize also lets you do database maintenance tasks like:

• Enable/Disable comments for published posts
• Remove trashed comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site anywhere, anytime)
• Remove trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to retain data from selected number of weeks when cleaning up
• Option to add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly schedules of optimization
• View database table statistics
• Receive email notifications after automatic database cleanups
• Marks potentially dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize – WordPress Plugin Settings Panel)

For more details, go here: WP-Optimize

WP Sweep

(WP Sweep Plugin)

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

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

(WP-Sweep Plugin For WordPress – Settings Panel)

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“, “Optimize Database“, etc …

(Add New Plugins – Plugins Menu)

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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