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 Using Plugins

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

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

For most users, having functions like autosave and automatic 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 manage your revisions.

(Post revisions can really add up after a while)

For example, if there are 100 posts published on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your database could be storing up to 2,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 2,000 revisions, the total space wasted is about 200MB.

The good news is that there are some great plugins for WordPress that can help you manage your revisions and reduce the size of your database. Let’s take a look at some of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Plugin)

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

After the plugin has been installed and activated, the plugin can perform optimizations on your database without having to log into your server.

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

(Better Delete Revision – WP Settings)

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

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

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

(Posts revisions list)

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

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Clear list of post revisions)

The unnecessary data will be deleted from the WP database …

(List of revisions removed)

After a while and depending on the number of posts you have published on your website, therefore, we recommend repeating this process to keep your WordPress database as light as possible, since WordPress will automatically begin saving your new revisions again …

(Revisions automatically start again!)

You can also use this plugin to optimize your database …

(Keep the database optimized)

The plugin checks to see if your database tables need optimization and provides an easy one-click database table optimization function that does not require you to log into your hosting panel or use technical software …

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

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin For WordPress)

OptimizeDatabase not only lets you delete redundant page and post revisions (with the option of keeping an ’x’ amount of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform an easy one-click database table optimization routine, it also lets you perform maintenance tasks like:

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions WP Plugin – Settings)

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

WP Optimize

(WP-Optimize – WordPress Plugin)

In addition to cleaning redundant post and page revisions and performing cleaning and optimization maintenance routines, this plugin also lets you do maintenance tasks such as:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Remove spam comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Removal of all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clear out the 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
• Display database table statistics
• E-mail notifications after automatic cleanups
• Displays potentially dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize WP Plugin – Settings)

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

WP-Sweep

(WP-Sweep Plugin For WordPress)

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

• Auto drafts
• Unapproved comments
• Orphan term relationships
• Duplicated post 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

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

(Plugins Menu – Add 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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