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 Revisions – WordPress Plugins

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

(View the revisions box)

Having autosave and automatic revisions is undoubtedly a good thing. If you write or edit often, however, the number of revisions can start to build up. This can significantly increase 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 there are 200 posts on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your WordPress database could be storing around 2,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 2,000 revisions of that post, the total space wasted is about 200MB.

Fortunately, there are various plugins for WordPress that can help you control your revisions and reduce the size of your database. Here are some of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Plugin)

Better Delete Revision deletes redundant post revisions from your WordPress database as well as database content belonging to each revision like tags, relationships, meta data, and more.

After the plugin has been installed and activated, the plugin can optimize your WordPress database.

Go to the Dashboard and choose Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Better Delete Revision – Settings Menu)

This brings you to the Better Delete Revision Manager screen. Click ’Check Revision Posts’ to calculate the number of redundant post revisions you can delete from the database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

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

(List of post revisions – Better Delete Revision Manager)

Click on the ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ button below the list to remove all items from your database, or abandon the task and exit the tool …

(Remove list of post revisions)

The unnecessary revisions will be deleted from the database …

(Post revisions cleared)

After some time has passed and depending on the number of posts you have published on your website, therefore, we recommend repeating this process to keep your database as lean as possible, since WordPress automatically begins saving all new post revisions again (unless you have chosen to turn the feature off) …

(Post revisions automatically start being saved again!)

You can also use this plugin to optimize the WordPress database …

(Keep the database optimized – Better Delete Revision Manager)

The plugin checks to see if the database needs to be optimized and lets you perform a one-click optimization maintenance routine that does not require you to log into your server control panel or use complicated database management software …

(Better Delete Revision checks if the WP database needs optimization)

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision Plugin

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions)

This plugin is similar to the one described above. It not only lets you remove unnecessary page and post revisions (with the added option to keep an ’x’ amount of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click table optimization maintenance routine, it also lets you do the following maintenance tasks:

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – WordPress Plugin Settings)

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

WP Optimize

(WP-Optimize Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as removing redundant page and post revisions and performing cleaning and optimization maintenance routines, WP Optimize also lets you perform maintenance tasks such as:

• Enable/Disable comments for published posts
• Remove trashed comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site from anywhere)
• Remove all transient options
• Clear out post trash
• Ability to keep 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.g. how much space has been cleared
• E-mail notifications on scheduled cleanups
• Marks potentially dangerous cleanup items 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, this plugin also cleans up:

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

(WP Sweep – Settings Panel)

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 search for keywords like “Post Revisions“, “Database Optimize“, etc …

(Add New Plugins – 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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