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.

Post Revision Management Using Plugins

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

(WordPress revisions list – Post Editor section)

For most WordPress users, having access to content workflow functions like autosave and revisions is very useful. If you write and edit often, however, over time 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 on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your WordPress database could be storing an extra 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.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision WP Plugin)

Better Delete Revision removes redundant post revisions from your WordPress database and other revision-related content like relationships, tags, meta data, and more.

After installing and activating the plugin, you can use it to optimize your WordPress database.

Log into your WordPress admin section, then go to your navigation menu and select select Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(WordPress Settings Menu – Better Delete Revision)

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 removed from the database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Better Delete Revision – Posts revisions)

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

(Delete posts revisions)

The redundant data will be deleted from your WP database …

(Better Delete Revision – Revisions list removed)

After a period of time, therefore, we recommend running the tool again to keep your database as lean as possible, since WordPress will automatically begin storing all revisions again …

(Post revisions automatically start being saved again!)

Like the other plugins described in this section, you can also use the plugin to keep your database optimized …

(Keep the site’s database optimized)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if your WordPress database needs optimization and runs an easy one-click table optimization routine without the need to log into your server control panel …

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

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision – WordPress 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 delete unnecessary page and post revisions (it also lets you keep an ’x’ amount of your most recent revisions) and checks if the WordPress database needs optimization, it also lets you do the following optional tasks:

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin – Settings)

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

WP Optimize

(WP Optimize Plugin)

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

• Enable/Disable comments for published posts
• Removal of trashed comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site from anywhere)
• Remove all transient options
• Clear out post trash
• Ability to retain data from selected number of weeks when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization scheduling
• See database table statistics (e.g. how much space has been cleared
• E-mail notifications after automatic cleanup
• Marks dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize – Settings)

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

WP Sweep

(WP-Sweep WordPress Plugin)

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

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

(WP-Sweep WordPress Plugin – Settings Page)

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 database, go to Plugins > Add New and search for keywords like “Manage Post Revisions“, “Optimize“, etc …

(WordPress 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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