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

(Post Editor screen – Viewing the Revisions box)

Autosave and revisions are no doubt functions that help create a more effective workflow. If you write or edit extensively, 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.

(Post revisions can really add up after a while)

For example, if there are 100 posts published on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your database could be storing an extra 1,500 copies of old data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 1,500 post revisions, the total space wasted is about 150MB.

The good news is that there are some great plugins available to help you control and manage your revisions and reduce the size of your database. Here are some of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Plugin)

Better Delete Revision deletes redundant revisions of posts from your WordPress database as well as other database content belonging to each revision such as relationships, meta data, tags, and more.

After installing and activating the plugin, you can optimize your WP database.

In the WP administration section, select Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Better Delete Revision – Settings)

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

(Better Delete Revision – Check Revision Posts)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions related to each post, the plugin will then calculate and display a list of post revisions stored in your WP database …

(List of revisions)

Click on the button below the list to clear the items from your database, or choose the ‘No, …’ button to exit the tool with your post revisions undeleted …

(Remove list of revisions)

The redundant revisions will be deleted from the WP database …

(Revisions deleted – Better Delete Revision Manager)

After some time has passed, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WP database as lean as possible, since WordPress will automatically begin to store all new revisions again (unless you specifically turn the feature off) …

(Revisions automatically start again!)

You can also use Better Delete Revisions to optimize the database …

(Optimize the database)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if your WP database needs to be optimized and provides a one-click WordPress database table optimization maintenance routine without the need to log into your hosting control panel or mess with complicated database management tools …

(Better Delete Revision lets you perform an easy one-click WordPress database optimization routine)

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin)

This plugin is similar to the one described above. It not only lets you delete unnecessary page and post revisions (it also lets you keep an ’x’ amount of your most recent revisions) and checks if your WP database needs cleaning and optimization, it also lets you do the following:

• Delete trashed posts, comments, and pages
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ‘expired transients’
• Exclude specific pages/posts and tables 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

WP-Optimize

(WP Optimize WordPress Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as removing redundant page and post revisions and checking if the WP database tables need to be optimized, this plugin also lets you perform the following:

• Enable/Disable comments for all published posts
• Remove trashed comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site on the go)
• Removal of all transient options
• Clear out the post trash
• Ability to keep selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization schedules
• See database table statistics (e.g. how much space has been cleared
• E-mail notifications on automatic cleanup
• Marks dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize Plugin For WordPress – Settings Page)

For more details, go here: WP-Optimize Plugin

WP-Sweep

(WP-Sweep)

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

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

(WP Sweep Plugin – 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

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

(Add New – WordPress 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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