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 Using Plugins

As soon as you save your pages and posts, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. These are displayed in a Revisions list at the bottom of your post or page …

(Post revisions box – Post Editor section)

Having features like autosave and revisions is undoubtedly a good thing. If you write and edit often, however, the revisions can start to build up. This can significantly grow the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to be able to manage your revisions.

(As you write more posts on your site, your WordPress database could be storing lots of unnecessary data)

For example, if you have 100 posts on your site and each post has 10 revisions your database could be storing an extra 1,000 copies of old data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 1,000 revisions, the total space wasted is about 100MB.

Fortunately, there are several plugins for WordPress available to 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 – WordPress Plugin)

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

After installing and activating the plugin, you can use the Better Delete Revision Manager to perform optimizations on your WP database without having to log into your server.

In your WP Dashboard menu, select Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Better Delete Revision – Settings)

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

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

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

(List of post revisions – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Delete posts revisions)

The unnecessary post information will be deleted from the database …

(List of post revisions cleared)

After some time has passed, we recommend running the tool again to keep your database as lean as possible, since WordPress will automatically begin saving all post revisions again …

(Revisions automatically start being saved again!)

You can also use this plugin to optimize your site’s database …

(Keep the site’s database optimized)

The plugin checks to see if your database tables need optimization and lets you run a one-click optimization maintenance routine that does not require you to log into your hosting control panel or mess with technical software …

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

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions)

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 the most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click cleaning and optimization maintenance routine, it also lets you perform the following maintenance tasks:

• Delete trashed pages, comments, and posts
• Delete unused tags
• Delete ’orphan postmeta items’
• Exclude selected tables and specific pages/posts from cleaning and optimization
• Create a log file of the optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – Settings Screen)

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

WP Optimize

(WP-Optimize Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as removing unnecessary page and post revisions and performing cleaning and optimization maintenance routines, this plugin also lets you perform the following maintenance tasks:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for published posts
• Remove stale metadata from comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Removal of all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clear out post trash
• Ability to retain selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization scheduling
• View database table statistics (e.g. how much space has been cleared
• Receive email notifications on automatic cleanup
• Marks dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize – WordPress Plugin Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize Plugin

WP Sweep

(WP Sweep)

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

• Auto drafts
• Unapproved comments
• Orphan term meta
• Duplicated user 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

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 “Revisions“, “Optimize Database“, etc …

(Plugins Menu – Add 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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