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 create, edit, and update posts and pages, WordPress begins to store new revisions in its database. These show up in a Revisions list at the bottom of the page editor …

(Post Editor screen – View the WordPress post revisions list)

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

(Post revisions can really add up after a while)

For example, if you have 100 posts published on your site and each post has 20 revisions your WordPress database could be storing around 2,000 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 2,000 revisions, the total database space wasted is about 200MB.

Fortunately, there are a number of plugins for WordPress that can help you control your revisions and reduce the size of your database. Let’s take a look at 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 database content associated with each revision such as relationships, tags, meta information, and more.

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

In your WordPress Dashboard, select Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Better Delete Revision – Settings)

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

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Check Revision Posts)

A table of revisions stored in the database will be returned on the screen …

(List of revisions)

Click on ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ below the list to delete all items from your database, or choose the ‘No, …’ button to abandon the process and exit the plugin …

(Better Delete Revision – Delete list of post revisions)

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

(Post revisions list deleted)

After some time has passed, therefore, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WP database as light as possible, since WordPress automatically begins storing your post revisions again …

(WordPress will automatically begin saving your new post revisions again!)

Like the other plugins listed in this section, you can also use Better Delete Revisions to optimize your site’s database …

(Keep the site’s database optimized)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if your WP database tables need to be optimized and provides an easy one-click optimization function without requiring you to log into your server panel or mess with complicated applications …

(Better Delete Revision checks if your WP database needs to be optimized)

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions)

This plugin is similar to the one described above. It not only lets you prune unnecessary revisions of posts and pages (with the added option of keeping an ‘x’-amount of your most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click database cleaning and optimization routine, it also lets you perform the following optional tasks:

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – Settings)

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

WP Optimize

(WP-Optimize WordPress Plugin)

In addition to deleting unnecessary page and post revisions and checking if your database needs cleaning and optimization, WP Optimize also lets you do the following:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for published posts
• Remove stale metadata from comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Remove transient options
• Clear out post trash
• Ability to retain data from selected number of weeks when cleaning up
• Option to add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization scheduling
• See database table statistics
• E-mail notifications after scheduled database cleanups
• Highlights potentially dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize – WordPress Plugin Settings)

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

WP Sweep

(WP Sweep Plugin)

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

• Auto drafts
• Spammed comments
• Orphaned comment meta
• Duplicated term meta
• Transient options
• And more!

(WPSweep – WordPress Plugin Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Sweep WordPress 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 “Manage Post Revisions“, “Optimize“, etc …

(Plugins Menu – Add 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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