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 your posts/pages, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. You can see these displayed in a Revisions section below your page editor …

(Post Editor section – The WordPress revisions box)

For most users, having features like autosave and revisions is no doubt a timesaver. If you write extensively, however, the revisions can start building up. This can significantly bloat 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 there are 100 posts on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your database could be storing up to 1,000 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 1,000 revisions, the total space wasted is about 100MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin)

Better Delete Revision deletes redundant revisions of posts from your database and other database content associated with each revision such as relationships, tags, meta information, and more.

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

In your Dashboard, select Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Settings – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Check Revision Posts)

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

(List of post revisions)

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

(Clear list of revisions)

The unnecessary revisions will be cleared from your database …

(Post revisions cleared – Better Delete Revision)

As WordPress automatically saves all revisions, the process will automatically start again (unless you have chosen to turn the feature off). After some time has passed and depending on the amount of content you have published on your website and their associated post revisions, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WordPress database as lean as possible …

(Post revisions automatically start being stored again!)

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

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Optimize the site’s database)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if your database tables need optimization and lets you perform a one-click optimization routine without the need to log into your hosting control panel or use complicated database management software …

(Better Delete Revision checks if your WP database needs optimization)

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision Plugin

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin)

The Optimize Database plugin not only lets you delete redundant post and page revisions (it also lets you keep a specific number of your most recent revisions) and lets you perform an easy one-click table cleaning and optimization routine, it also lets you do database maintenance tasks like:

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

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

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

WP Optimize

(WP-Optimize WordPress Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as deleting unnecessary page and post revisions and checking if the database tables need to be cleaned and optimized, WP Optimize also lets you do database maintenance tasks such as:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for published posts
• Remove stale spam comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site from anywhere)
• Remove transient options
• Clear out post trash
• Ability to keep selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Option to add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization scheduling
• View database table statistics
• Receive email notifications after automatic database cleanups
• Highlights potentially dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize – WordPress Plugin Settings Screen)

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

WP-Sweep

(WP-Sweep)

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

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

(WP-Sweep – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP-Sweep Plugin

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 search for keywords like “Manage 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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