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 Post Revisions – WordPress Plugins

As soon as you save your pages/posts, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. You can see these displayed in a Revisions box below the post or page …

(Viewing the revisions box – Post Editor section)

Autosave and post revisions are no doubt features that help make work more productive. If you write and edit often, however, the number of revisions can start building up. This can significantly grow the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to manage your revisions.

(As you write more posts, your database could be storing lots of unnecessary data)

For example, if there are 250 posts published on your site and each post has an average of 10 revisions your WordPress database could be storing up to 2,500 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 2,500 revisions of that post, the total space wasted is about 250MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision WordPress Plugin)

This plugin deletes redundant revisions of posts from your database as well as other revision-related content such as meta data, relationships, tags, and more.

After the plugin has been installed and activated, you can use the Better Delete Revision Manager to optimize your WordPress database.

Log into your WP Dashboard and select Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Settings – Better Delete Revision)

This brings you to the Better Delete Revision Manager area. Click ’Check Revision Posts’ to calculate the number of redundant post revisions can be deleted from your database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Check Revision Posts)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions related to each post, the plugin calculates and returns a table of post revisions stored in the WP database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Posts revisions list)

Click on ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ below the list to delete all items from your WP database, or choose ‘No, I prefer to keep them!’ to exit the Better Delete Revision Manager settings screen …

(Clear posts revisions)

The unnecessary data will be deleted from your WordPress database …

(Revisions removed)

After a while, therefore, we recommend running the tool again to keep your database as light as possible, since WordPress automatically begins to save post revisions again …

(Post revisions automatically start again!)

Like the other plugins listed further below, you can also use Better Delete Revisions to keep your database optimized …

(Optimize the database – Better Delete Revision Manager)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if your WP database tables need optimization and runs a one-click table optimization maintenance routine that does not require you to log into your server control panel or use technical software …

(Better Delete Revision checks if your 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 Plugin For WordPress)

The Optimize Database plugin not only lets you delete redundant post and page revisions (it also lets you keep an ‘x’-amount of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click optimization maintenance routine, it also lets you perform database maintenance tasks such as:

• Delete trashed posts, pages, and comments
• Delete unused tags
• Delete ‘expired transients’
• Exclude certain tables and specific posts/pages from optimization
• Automatically schedule optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin – Settings)

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

WP Optimize

(WP-Optimize WordPress Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as deleting unnecessary revisions of pages and posts and performing database table cleaning and optimization maintenance, WP Optimize also lets you do the following:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for published posts
• Removal of unapproved comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Removal of all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clear out the post trash
• Ability to keep 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 can be optimized
• E-mail notifications on scheduled cleanup
• Displays potentially dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize – WordPress Plugin Settings Screen)

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

WP Sweep

(WP Sweep WordPress Plugin)

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

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

(WP Sweep Plugin For WordPress – Settings Panel)

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

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 Database“, 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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