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.

Page/Post Revision Management Using Plugins

As soon as you create, edit, and save posts and pages, WordPress begins to store new revisions in its database. These are displayed in a Revisions section at the bottom of your post or page …

(Post Editor screen – View the Post revisions list)

Having workflow features like autosave and revisions is undoubtedly a timesaver. If you write often, however, after a while the number of 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.

(Your database could be storing lots of unnecessary data)

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

Fortunately, there are some really great (and free) plugins available to help you manage your revisions and reduce the size of your WordPress database. Here are some of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Plugin)

This plugin removes redundant revisions of posts from your WordPress database and other revision-related content such as tags, relationships, 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.

Log into your WordPress dashboard, then go to your navigation menu and choose click on Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(WordPress 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 your database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

A table of revisions stored in the WordPress database will display on the screen …

(List of post revisions)

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

(Delete posts revisions list)

The redundant items will be removed from your database …

(Revisions list deleted)

After a while, therefore, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WordPress database as lean as possible, since WordPress automatically begins storing all revisions again …

(Revisions automatically start being stored again!)

Like the other plugins listed in this section, you can also use Better Delete Revisions to keep your WordPress database optimized …

(Keep your database optimized – Better Delete Revision)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if the WordPress database tables need to be optimized and performs a one-click database optimization routine without requiring you to log into your server control panel or use technical database management software …

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

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions)

OptimizeDatabase not only can be used to remove unnecessary revisions of pages and posts (with the option to keep an ’x’ amount of the most recent revisions) and checks if your WordPress database needs optimization, it also lets you do the following optional maintenance tasks:

• Delete trashed comments, pages, and posts
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ’orphan postmeta items’
• Exclude specific posts/pages and tables from cleaning and optimization
• Automatically schedule optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – Settings Screen)

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

WP-Optimize

(WP-Optimize Plugin For WordPress)

In addition to cleaning redundant page and post revisions and checking if the database tables need to be optimized, WP Optimize also lets you perform maintenance tasks like:

• Enable/Disable comments for published posts
• Remove spam comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Remove transient options
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to keep data from selected number of weeks when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly schedules of optimization
• Display database table statistics
• Receive email notifications after scheduled database cleanups
• Displays dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize Plugin For WordPress – Settings)

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

WP Sweep

(WP-Sweep)

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

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

(WP Sweep – 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

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 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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