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. You can see these displayed in a Revisions section below the page editor …

(WordPress revisions list)

For most users, having access to effective workflow features like autosave and revisions is no doubt very useful. If you write and edit extensively, however, the number of revisions can start to build 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 you have 200 posts published on your site and each post has an average of 10 revisions your WordPress database could be storing an extra 2,000 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 2,000 revisions of that post, the total space wasted is about 200MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision)

This plugin removes redundant post revisions from your WordPress database and other revision-related content like relationships, meta information, tags, and more.

After installing and activating the plugin, you can use the plugin to optimize your WP database without having to log into your server.

In the Dashboard, click on Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(WordPress Settings Menu – Better Delete Revision)

This brings you to the Better Delete Revision Manager screen. Click the ‘Check Revision Posts’ button to calculate the number of redundant post revisions can be removed from the database …

(Better Delete Revision – Check Revision Posts)

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

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Posts revisions)

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

(Delete list of revisions – Better Delete Revision Manager)

The unnecessary items will be cleared from your WordPress database …

(Better Delete Revision – Revisions list removed)

As WordPress automatically saves your new post revisions, the process will automatically begin again. After a while and depending on the amount of content you have published on your site, we recommend repeating this process to keep your WordPress database as light as possible …

(WordPress will automatically begin to save all new post revisions again!)

You can also use this plugin to keep the site’s database optimized …

(Keep your site’s database optimized)

The plugin checks to see if the database needs optimization and provides a one-click optimization maintenance routine without requiring you to log into your server panel …

(Better Delete Revision checks if your WordPress database tables need to be optimized)

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – WordPress Plugin)

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

• Delete trashed posts, pages, and comments
• Delete unused tags
• Delete ’orphan post meta items’
• Exclude certain tables or specific pages/posts from optimization
• Automatically schedule optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – Settings)

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

WP-Optimize

(WP-Optimize)

In addition to removing redundant post and page revisions and performing table cleaning and optimization maintenance, this plugin also lets you do maintenance tasks like:

• Enable/Disable comments for all published posts
• Remove trashed comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Remove transient options
• 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 schedules
• See database table statistics
• Receive email notifications after scheduled database cleanups
• Marks dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize Plugin For WordPress – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP-Optimize Plugin

WP-Sweep

(WP Sweep – WordPress Plugin)

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

• Auto drafts
• Unapproved comments
• Orphaned term meta
• Duplicated term 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

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“, “Optimize Database“, etc …

(Plugins Menu – Add New 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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