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 create, edit, and update your pages and posts, WordPress begins to store new revisions in its database. These show up in a Revisions box below the page editor …

(The post revisions box)

Having access to functions like autosave and revisions is no doubt a great thing. If you write and edit often, however, the revisions can start building up. This can significantly increase the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to also be able to manage your revisions.

(Post revisions can really add up after a while)

For example, if you have 300 posts published on your site and each post has 20 revisions you could be storing around 6,000 copies of old data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 6,000 post revisions, the total space wasted is about 600MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision WP Plugin)

Better Delete Revision deletes redundant revisions of posts from your database as well as database content associated with each revision like tags, meta data, relationships, and more.

After installing and activating the plugin, Better Delete Revision can optimize your WP database.

Log into your WordPress admin section, then go to the main navigation menu and click on select Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(WP Settings – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

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

(List of revisions)

Click on ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ below the list to remove all items from your database, or select the ‘No, I prefer to keep them!’ button to exit the page with all post revisions undeleted …

(Clear posts revisions list)

The unnecessary post revisions will be cleared from the database …

(Post revisions list deleted)

As WordPress automatically saves all post revisions, the process will automatically start again (unless you have chosen to turn the feature off). After a period of time, we recommend running the tool again to keep your database as lean as possible …

(Post revisions automatically start again!)

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

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Optimize your site’s database)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if the WP database tables need optimization and provides an easy one-click WP database optimization maintenance routine without requiring you to log into your hosting panel or use complicated software …

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

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions)

OptimizeDatabase not only lets you remove unnecessary page and post revisions (it also lets you keep a specific number of your most recent revisions) and lets you perform an easy one-click table cleaning and optimization routine, it also lets you do optional maintenance tasks like:

• Delete trashed pages, posts, and comments
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ‘expired transients’
• Exclude selected pages/posts and tables from 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 Plugin For WordPress

WP-Optimize

(WP-Optimize Plugin)

In addition to deleting unnecessary page and post revisions and checking if the database needs optimization, WP Optimize also lets you do database maintenance tasks such as:

• Enable/Disable comments for published posts
• Removal of stale metadata from comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Removal of all transient options
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to retain selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Option to add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization schedules
• Display database table statistics (e.g. how much space has been cleared
• E-mail notifications on scheduled cleanups
• Marks potentially dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize Plugin For WordPress – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP-Optimize Plugin

WP-Sweep

(WP-Sweep)

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

• Auto drafts
• Spammed comments
• Orphaned term relationships
• Duplicated term meta
• Unused terms
• And more!

(WP-Sweep WordPress Plugin – Settings Panel)

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 search for keywords like “Post Revisions“, “Optimize Database“, etc …

(WordPress Plugins Menu – Add New)

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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