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 and pages, WordPress begins to store new revisions in its database. These appear in a Revisions section at the bottom of the post or page …

(WordPress post revisions box)

Autosave and post revisions are no doubt features that help make work more productive. If you write or edit a lot of content, 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 and each post has an average of 10 revisions your WordPress database could be storing around 1,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 1,000 revisions of that post, the total space wasted is about 100MB.

Fortunately, there are various plugins for WordPress available to help you control your revisions and reduce the size of your WordPress database. Here are a few:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision WP Plugin)

This plugin deletes redundant revisions of posts from your database as well as database content belonging to each revision such as meta data, relationships, tags, and more.

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

Log into the Dashboard and select 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 the number of redundant post revisions you can safely remove from your WordPress database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – 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 your database …

(Posts revisions)

Click on the ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ button below the list to remove all items from the WP database, or cancel the operation and exit the tool with all post revisions undeleted …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Clear posts revisions)

The redundant post information will be deleted from your database …

(Better Delete Revision – Post revisions list cleared)

After a while and depending on the amount of content you have published on your website, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WordPress database as light as possible, since WordPress will automatically begin saving all revisions again …

(WordPress will automatically begin to save your revisions again!)

You can also use the plugin to optimize the database …

(Better Delete Revision – Optimize your site’s database)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if the WordPress database tables need optimization and provides a one-click WP database table optimization function without requiring you to log into your server panel …

(Better Delete Revision checks if the database needs to be optimized)

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin For WordPress)

The Optimize Database plugin not only can be used to remove redundant revisions of posts and pages (it also lets you keep an ‘x’-amount of your most recent revisions) and checks if the WordPress database needs optimization, it also lets you perform maintenance tasks like:

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – WordPress Plugin Settings)

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

WP-Optimize

(WP-Optimize Plugin)

In addition to cleaning redundant revisions of posts and pages and performing cleaning and optimization maintenance, WP Optimize also lets you do maintenance tasks like:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for published posts
• Remove stale unapproved comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site anywhere, anytime)
• Remove transient options
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to keep data from selected number of weeks when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization schedules
• See database table statistics
• E-mail notifications on automatic database cleanup
• Highlights potentially dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize Plugin – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize Plugin

WP Sweep

(WP Sweep WordPress Plugin)

WP-Sweep lets you clean up orphaned, unused, and duplicated data in your WP database, including revisions. This plugin cleans up:

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

(WPSweep – WordPress Plugin Settings Page)

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 WordPress database, go to Plugins > Add New and type in keywords like “Revisions“, “Database Optimize“, etc …

(Add Plugin – 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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