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.

Content Revision Management Using Plugins

As soon as you update pages and posts, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. These show up in a Revisions box below the post editor …

(View the revisions box)

Having features like autosave and automatic revisions is undoubtedly something that can help make work more efficient. If you write and edit a lot of content, however, after a while the number of revisions can start to build up. This can significantly increase the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to manage your revisions.

(Your WordPress database could be storing lots of unnecessary data)

For example, if you have 300 posts on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your WordPress database could be storing up to 6,000 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 6,000 revisions of that post, the total space wasted is about 600MB.

Fortunately, there are some great (and free) plugins for WordPress that can help you control your revisions and reduce the size of your WordPress database. Here are a few of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision WordPress Plugin)

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

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

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

(Better Delete Revision – WP Settings)

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

(Better Delete Revision – Check Revision Posts)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions related to each post entry, the plugin will then calculate and display a table of revisions stored in your database …

(Better Delete Revision – List of post revisions)

Click on the ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ button to clear all list items from the database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Clear posts revisions list)

The unnecessary data will be removed from your database …

(List of post revisions deleted – Better Delete Revision)

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

(WordPress will automatically begin storing all post revisions again!)

You can also use this plugin to optimize your WordPress database …

(Better Delete Revision – Keep your WordPress database optimized)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if your WP database needs optimization and provides a one-click database optimization maintenance routine without the need to log into your hosting control panel …

(Better Delete Revision checks if your WordPress database tables need optimization)

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin For WordPress)

The Optimize Database plugin not only can be used to delete unnecessary revisions of pages and posts (it also lets you keep an ’x’ amount of your most recent revisions) and checks if your WordPress database tables need to be trimmed, cleaned, and optimized, it also lets you do the following optional tasks:

• Delete trashed comments, posts, and pages
• Delete unused tags
• Delete ’pingbacks’ and ‘trackbacks’
• Exclude selected tables and specific pages/posts from cleaning and optimization
• Automatically schedule optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – WordPress Plugin Settings Page)

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

WP Optimize

(WP Optimize WP Plugin)

In addition to removing unnecessary revisions of posts and pages and checking if your database needs to be cleaned and optimized, this plugin also lets you do maintenance tasks like:

• Enable/Disable comments for published posts
• Removal of stale unapproved comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site anywhere, anytime)
• Remove transient options
• Clear out the post trash
• 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 scheduling
• Display database table statistics (e.g. how much space can be optimized
• E-mail notifications on scheduled cleanups
• Highlights dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize Plugin For WordPress – Settings Page)

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

WP Sweep

(WP-Sweep Plugin For WordPress)

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

• Auto drafts
• Unapproved comments
• Orphaned term meta
• Duplicated post meta
• Unused terms
• And more!

(WP-Sweep – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Sweep WP 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 database, go to Plugins > Add New and type in keywords like “Revisions“, “Optimize“, etc …

(Add New Plugin – 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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