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 pages and posts, WordPress begins to store new revisions for the content in its database. You can see these displayed in a Revisions box below the post or page …

(The WordPress post revisions box – Post Editor screen)

Having autosave and automatic revisions is no doubt a great thing. If you write and edit often, however, the number of revisions can start building up. This can significantly bloat the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to manage your revisions.

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

For example, if you have 100 posts published on your site with an average of 10 revisions each you could be storing an extra 1,500 copies of unnecessary data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 1,500 revisions of that post, the total space wasted is about 150MB.

The good news is that there are various free WordPress plugins that can help you control your revisions and reduce the size of your WordPress database. Let’s take a look at a few:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision)

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

After the plugin has been installed and activated, you can use it to perform optimizations on your database.

Log into the administration area and click on Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Settings Menu – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Better Delete Revision – Check Revision Posts)

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

(Posts revisions – Better Delete Revision Manager)

Click on the ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ button below the list to delete all items from the WP database, or exit the Better Delete Revision settings screen …

(Remove posts revisions)

The unnecessary data will be removed from your database …

(Post revisions list cleared – Better Delete Revision)

After a period of time, therefore, we recommend repeating this process to keep your WP database as light as possible, since WordPress will automatically begin saving your new post revisions again …

(Revisions automatically start being saved again!)

Like the other plugins described further below, you can also use Better Delete Revisions to keep the site’s database optimized …

(Optimize the site’s database)

The plugin checks to see if the database needs to be optimized and provides an easy one-click optimization function that does not require you to log into your server control panel or use complicated applications …

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

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions)

This plugin is similar to the one described above. It not only lets you prune redundant revisions of posts and pages (with the option of keeping an ’x’ amount of your most recent revisions) and checks if your WordPress database tables need to be cleaned and optimized, it also lets you perform the following optional maintenance tasks:

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – Settings Screen)

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

WP-Optimize

(WP-Optimize Plugin)

In addition to cleaning unnecessary revisions of posts and pages and checking if your WordPress database tables need to be optimized, WP Optimize also lets you do maintenance tasks like:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for published posts
• Removal of stale spam comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site from anywhere)
• Remove trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clear out the post trash
• 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 schedules of optimization
• See database table statistics
• Receive email notifications after scheduled cleanup
• Marks potentially dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize Plugin – Settings Screen)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize

WP Sweep

(WP Sweep Plugin For WordPress)

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

• Auto drafts
• Spammed comments
• Orphaned term relationships
• Duplicated user meta
• Transient options
• And more!

(WP Sweep – Settings)

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

To view more plugins that can help you manage post revisions and optimize your WordPress database, go to Plugins > Add New and search for keywords like “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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