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 – WordPress Plugins

As soon as you create, edit, and update pages and posts, WordPress begins to store new revisions of your content in its database. These appear in a Revisions section at the bottom of your page editor …

(View the WordPress revisions box)

Having functions like autosave and revisions is undoubtedly a great thing. If you write or edit a lot of content, however, the revisions can start building up. This can significantly grow the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to be able to manage your revisions.

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

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

Fortunately, there are a number of free plugins available that can help you control and manage your revisions and reduce the size of your database. Here are a few:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision)

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 installing and activating the plugin, you can use it to perform optimizations on your WP database without having to log into your server.

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

(WP Settings Menu – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Better Delete Revision – Check Revision Posts)

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

(Better Delete Revision Manager – List of post revisions)

Click on the button below the list to clear all items from the database …

(Delete list of revisions)

The redundant post information will be cleared from your WordPress database …

(Revisions removed)

After a period of time, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WP database as lean as possible, since WordPress automatically begins saving post revisions again (unless you have chosen to turn the feature off) …

(WordPress automatically begins to store all new post revisions again!)

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

(Keep your database optimized)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if the WordPress database needs optimization and provides an easy one-click WordPress database optimization routine that does not require you to log into your server control panel …

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

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions WP Plugin)

OptimizeDatabase not only lets you prune redundant post and page revisions (with the option to keep a specific number of your most recent revisions) and checks if your database tables need optimization, it also lets you do database maintenance tasks like:

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions WP Plugin – Settings Panel)

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

WP Optimize

(WP-Optimize)

In addition to deleting unnecessary page and post revisions and checking if your WordPress database tables need to be optimized, WP Optimize also lets you perform the following maintenance tasks:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for published posts
• Removal of akismet metadata from comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Removal of all transient options
• Clear out post trash
• Ability to retain selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization scheduling
• See database table statistics (e.g. how much space can be optimized
• E-mail notifications on automatic cleanup
• Marks dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize Plugin – Settings)

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

WP-Sweep

(WP-Sweep – WordPress Plugin)

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

• Auto drafts
• Unapproved comments
• Orphan user meta
• Duplicated post meta
• Transient options
• And more!

(WPSweep – WordPress Plugin 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 WordPress database, go to Plugins > Add New and type in keywords like “Revisions“, “Database 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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