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.

Post & Page Revision Management Using Plugins

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

(Post Editor screen – The post revisions list)

For most WordPress users, having features like autosave and revisions is a good thing. If you write a lot of content, however, the revisions can start building up. This can significantly grow the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to be able to manage your revisions.

(As post revisions accumulate, your WordPress database could be storing lots of unnecessary data)

For example, if there are 100 posts on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your WordPress database could be storing an extra 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 a few great WordPress plugins available to help you manage your revisions and reduce the size of your database. Here are some of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin For WordPress)

Better Delete Revision removes redundant revisions of posts from your database and other database content belonging to each revision like meta information, relationships, tags, and more.

After the plugin has been installed and activated, Better Delete Revision can perform optimizations on your WordPress database.

Log into your WordPress dashboard, then go to your navigation menu and click on click on Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Settings)

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

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Check Revision Posts)

A table of revisions stored in your database will be returned on the screen …

(Better Delete Revision – List of post revisions)

Click on ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ below the list to remove all items from the database, or choose the ‘No, I prefer to keep them!’ button to exit the plugin …

(Remove posts revisions)

The redundant data will be cleared from the database …

(List of post revisions cleared)

As WordPress automatically stores your new post revisions, the process will automatically begin again (unless you have turned the feature off). After some time has passed and depending on the number of posts you have published on your site and their related post revisions, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WP database as light as possible …

(Revisions automatically start being saved again!)

You can also use Better Delete Revisions to keep your database optimized …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Keep your WP database optimized)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if the WordPress database tables need optimization and lets you run a one-click table optimization routine without requiring you to log into your server panel or mess with technical applications …

(Better Delete Revision checks if the WP database tables need to be optimized)

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision Plugin

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin For WordPress)

This plugin is similar to the one described above. It not only lets you remove unnecessary post and page revisions (it also lets you keep an ’x’ amount of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform an easy one-click table cleaning and optimization maintenance routine, it also lets you perform maintenance tasks like:

• Delete trashed posts, comments, and pages
• Delete unused tags
• Delete ‘expired transients’
• Exclude certain pages/posts and tables from optimization
• Create a log file of the optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – Settings)

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

WP Optimize

(WP Optimize WordPress Plugin)

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

• Enable/Disable comments for published posts
• Removal of stale spam comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site on the go)
• Remove trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to keep data from selected number of weeks when cleaning up
• Option to add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization scheduling
• Display database table statistics (e.g. how much space can be optimized
• Receive email notifications after automatic cleanup
• Marks potentially dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize – WordPress Plugin Settings Screen)

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

WP Sweep

(WP-Sweep Plugin For WordPress)

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

• Auto drafts
• Deleted comments
• Orphan comment meta
• Duplicated comment meta
• Unused terms
• And more!

(WP Sweep – Settings Page)

For more details, go here: WP-Sweep WordPress 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

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“, etc …

(Add Plugins – 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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