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 save pages and posts, WordPress begins to store revisions of your content in its database. You can see these displayed in a Revisions list at the bottom of your post editor …

(Post Editor screen – The Revisions box)

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

(Post revisions can really add up after a while)

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

Fortunately, there are a few great plugins available to help you control your revisions and reduce the size of your database. Here are some of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin For WordPress)

This plugin removes redundant revisions of posts from your WordPress database and other revision-related content such as relationships, meta information, tags, and more.

After the plugin has been installed and activated, you can optimize your WordPress database without having to log into your server.

Go to your WordPress admin area and click on Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(WP Settings Menu – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

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

(List of post revisions)

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

(Clear list of post revisions – Better Delete Revision)

The unnecessary data will be deleted from your database …

(Revisions removed)

As WordPress automatically stores all new revisions, the process will automatically begin again. After a period of time and depending on the amount of content you have published on your website and their related post revisions, we recommend repeating this process to keep your database as lean as possible …

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

You can also use Better Delete Revisions to keep your site’s database optimized …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Optimize your WordPress database)

The plugin checks to see if the database needs optimization and provides a one-click optimization maintenance routine that does not require you to log into your hosting panel or mess with complicated database management tools …

(Better Delete Revision checks if the WP 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 unnecessary page and post revisions (with the added option of keeping an ’x’ amount of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click database optimization routine, it also lets you perform database maintenance tasks like:

• Delete trashed posts, pages, and comments
• Delete unused tags
• Delete ’pingbacks’ and ‘trackbacks’
• Exclude selected posts/pages and tables from optimization
• Create a log file of the optimizations
• And more!

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

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

WP Optimize

(WP-Optimize WP Plugin)

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

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for published posts
• Remove akismet metadata from 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
• See database table statistics
• E-mail notifications on scheduled cleanup
• Displays dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize – WordPress Plugin Settings Panel)

For more details, go here: WP-Optimize Plugin

WP Sweep

(WP-Sweep – WordPress Plugin)

In addition to optimizing your database tables and deleting unnecessary revisions, this plugin also cleans up:

• Auto drafts
• Deleted comments
• Orphaned user meta
• Duplicated post meta
• Transient options
• And more!

(WP-Sweep Plugin – Settings Page)

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 WordPress database, go to Plugins > Add New and type in keywords like “Revisions“, “Optimize“, etc …

(Plugins Menu – Add Plugin)

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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