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 WordPress Plugins

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

(WordPress revisions box)

Autosave and post revisions are no doubt features that help make work more productive. If you write often, however, the 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.

(As you write more posts on your site, your database could be storing lots of unnecessary data)

For example, if you have 300 posts on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your database could be storing around 6,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 6,000 revisions of that post, the total database space wasted is about 600MB.

Fortunately, there are several plugins for WordPress to help you control and manage your revisions and reduce the size of your WordPress database. Let’s take a look at a few of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision)

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

After the plugin has been installed and activated, Better Delete Revision can optimize your WP database.

Log into your WordPress admin area and choose Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Better Delete Revision – WP Settings)

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

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

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

(List of post revisions)

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

(Clear posts revisions – Better Delete Revision Manager)

The unnecessary post revisions will be deleted from the database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – List of post revisions cleared)

After a while and depending on the amount of content you have published on your website, we recommend running the tool again to keep your database as light as possible, since WordPress will automatically begin saving all new revisions again …

(Post revisions automatically start being saved again!)

Like the other plugins listed further below, you can also use Better Delete Revisions to optimize your database …

(Better Delete Revision – Optimize the database)

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

(Better Delete Revision lets you perform an easy one-click WP database table optimization routine)

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin For WordPress)

The Optimize Database plugin not only can be used to delete unnecessary revisions of pages and posts (with the added option of keeping a specific number of your most recent revisions) and lets you perform an easy one-click optimization maintenance routine, it also lets you perform the following:

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin – Settings)

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

WP Optimize

(WP-Optimize Plugin For WordPress)

In addition to performing tasks such as cleaning redundant post and page revisions and checking if your WordPress database needs to be optimized, WP Optimize also lets you do the following maintenance tasks:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Removal of trashed comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site anywhere, anytime)
• Remove transient options
• Clear out the post trash
• Ability to keep data from selected number of weeks when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization schedules
• See database table statistics (e.g. how much space can be optimized
• E-mail notifications on automatic database cleanup
• Displays dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize – Settings)

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

WP Sweep

(WP Sweep WordPress Plugin)

WP-Sweep lets you clean up unused, duplicated, and orphaned data in the WordPress database, including post revisions. This plugin cleans up:

• Auto drafts
• Deleted comments
• Orphan term relationships
• Duplicated term meta
• Transient options
• And more!

(WP Sweep – WordPress Plugin Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Sweep WP 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

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 “Post Revisions“, “Optimize“, etc …

(Plugins Menu – Add New 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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