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 new post revisions in its database. These are displayed in a Revisions section below the content editor …

(Post Editor section – View the WordPress post revisions box)

Autosave and revisions are no doubt functions that help create a more productive workflow. If you write a lot of content, however, the number of revisions can start building up. This can significantly increase the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to be able to manage your revisions.

(As post revisions accumulate, your WordPress database could be storing lots of unnecessary data)

For example, if you have 200 posts published on your site and each post has an average of 20 revisions your database could be storing up to 4,000 copies of old data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 4,000 revisions of that post, the total database space wasted is about 400MB.

The good news is that there are a number of plugins available to 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 – WordPress Plugin)

This plugin deletes redundant revisions of posts from your database and other database content related to each revision such as meta information, tags, relationships, and more.

After the plugin has been installed and activated, you can use it to perform optimizations on your WordPress database.

Log into your Dashboard and click on Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(WP Settings – Better Delete Revision)

This brings you to the Better Delete Revision Manager panel. Click ’Check Revision Posts’ to calculate how many redundant post revisions you can delete from the database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions related to each post entry, the plugin returns a list of revisions stored in your WordPress database …

(List of post revisions)

Click on the ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ button to remove all list items from your database, or choose the ‘No, I prefer to keep them!’ button to abandon the operation and exit the page with all post revisions undeleted …

(Remove list of post revisions)

The unnecessary post revisions will be removed from the WP database …

(List of revisions deleted)

As WordPress automatically saves your post revisions, the process will automatically begin again (unless you specifically turn the feature off). After a period of time, we recommend repeating this process to keep your database as lean as possible …

(Revisions automatically start again!)

You can also use the plugin to optimize the database …

(Optimize your WordPress database)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if the database needs to be optimized and provides an easy one-click table optimization maintenance routine without the need to log into your server control panel …

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

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – WordPress Plugin)

The Optimize Database plugin not only lets you delete redundant revisions of posts and pages (with the option to keep a specific number of the most recent revisions) and checks if the database tables need optimization, it also lets you do the following maintenance tasks:

• Delete trashed comments, pages, and posts
• Delete unused tags
• Delete ’orphan post meta items’
• Exclude selected posts/pages and tables from cleaning and 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 WordPress Plugin

WP Optimize

(WP-Optimize Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as deleting redundant revisions of pages and posts and checking if the WordPress database needs to be optimized, this plugin also lets you perform maintenance tasks such as:

• Enable/Disable comments for all published posts
• Removal of stale metadata from comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Removal of all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clear out post trash
• Ability to keep selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• 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
• Receive email notifications after automatic database cleanup
• Displays potentially dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize Plugin – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP-Optimize Plugin

WP-Sweep

(WP Sweep – WordPress Plugin)

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

• Auto drafts
• Unapproved comments
• Orphan user meta
• Duplicated term meta
• Unused terms
• And more!

(WP-Sweep – WordPress Plugin Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Sweep

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

In addition to the above plugins, you can view more plugins that can help you manage post revisions and optimize your WP database, go to Plugins > Add New and search for keywords like “Revisions“, “Optimize Database“, etc …

(WordPress Plugins Menu – Add New 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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