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

(Post Editor screen – Viewing the WordPress revisions box)

For most WordPress users, having functions like autosave and revisions is undoubtedly a timesaver. If you write extensively, however, the revisions can start to build up. This can significantly increase 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 300 posts published on your site and each post has an average of 20 revisions your database could be storing up to 6,000 copies of old data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 6,000 revisions of that post, the total space wasted is about 600MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin)

Better Delete Revision removes redundant revisions of posts from your database as well as other revision-related content such as tags, relationships, meta information, and more.

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

Go to the WP Dashboard and click on Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Settings)

This brings you to the Better Delete Revision Manager area. 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 calculates and returns a list of post revisions stored in the database …

(List of post revisions)

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

(Clear list of post revisions)

The redundant post revisions will be deleted from the database …

(Post revisions list cleared)

As WordPress automatically stores your revisions, the process will automatically start again (unless you have chosen to turn the feature off). After a while, we recommend running the tool again to keep your database as light as possible …

(Post revisions automatically start again!)

You can also use the plugin to optimize your WP database …

(Better Delete Revision – Optimize your WordPress database)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if your database tables need to be optimized and lets you run a one-click database table optimization routine without the need to log into your hosting control panel …

(Better Delete Revision lets you perform a one-click table optimization routine)

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin)

The Optimize Database plugin not only lets you prune unnecessary post and page revisions (with the added option to keep an ‘x’-amount of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform an easy one-click table optimization routine, it also lets you perform the following:

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin – Settings Panel)

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

WP-Optimize

(WP Optimize Plugin)

In addition to removing unnecessary page and post revisions and performing cleaning and optimization maintenance, WP Optimize also lets you do maintenance tasks like:

• Enable/Disable comments for all published posts
• Remove spam comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site from anywhere)
• Remove transient options
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to retain selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly schedules of optimization
• View database table statistics (e.g. how much space has been cleared
• Receive email notifications on scheduled cleanups
• Highlights dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize – Settings Panel)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize WordPress Plugin

WP Sweep

(WP-Sweep Plugin For WordPress)

In addition to optimizing your database tables and deleting unnecessary post revisions, WP-Sweep also cleans up:

• Auto drafts
• Spammed comments
• Orphan term meta
• Duplicated user meta
• Transient options
• And more!

(WPSweep – Settings)

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

(WordPress 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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