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.

Revision Management Plugins

As soon as you save a page or post, WordPress begins to store new revisions in its database. These appear in a Revisions list below the post editor …

(Post Editor screen – Viewing the WordPress revisions box)

Autosave and revisions are no doubt features that help make work more productive. If you write and edit a lot of content, however, the number of revisions can start to build up. This can significantly bloat 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 50 posts published on your site and each post has an average of 20 revisions you could be storing around 1,000 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 1,000 post revisions, the total space wasted is about 100MB.

The good news is that there are several WordPress plugins to help you control your revisions and reduce the size of your database. Here are a few:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin)

This plugin deletes redundant revisions of posts from your database as well as other revision-related content like meta data, relationships, tags, and more.

After installing and activating the plugin, you can perform optimizations on your database.

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

(Better Delete Revision – WP Settings)

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

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions associated with each post entry, the plugin displays a list of post revisions stored in the database …

(Posts revisions list)

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

(Remove list of revisions)

The unnecessary items will be cleared from the WP database …

(Revisions removed – Better Delete Revision)

As WordPress automatically stores all post revisions, the process will automatically start again. After a period of time and depending on the number of posts you have published on your site, therefore, we recommend repeating this process to keep your WP database as lean as possible …

(Revisions automatically start being stored again!)

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

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Optimize the WP database)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if the database tables need optimization and provides an easy one-click optimization feature without the need to log into your hosting control panel or use complicated database management applications …

(Better Delete Revision checks if your database tables need to be optimized)

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin For WordPress)

OptimizeDatabase not only lets you prune unnecessary revisions of posts and pages (it also lets you keep a specific number of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform an easy one-click cleaning and optimization routine, it also lets you do maintenance tasks like:

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

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

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

WP Optimize

(WP Optimize Plugin For WordPress)

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

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Removal of stale spam comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Removal of all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clear out the 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
• Receive email notifications on automatic cleanup
• Highlights dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize Plugin For WordPress – Settings Page)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize

WP-Sweep

(WP-Sweep)

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

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

(WPSweep Plugin – Settings Screen)

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

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

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

(Add Plugins – 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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