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 Plugins

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

(Post Editor screen – View the Post revisions list)

For most WordPress users, having autosave and revisions is something that helps make work more productive. If you write or edit often, however, the revisions can start building up. This can significantly grow 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 250 posts published on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your database could be storing around 2,500 copies of unnecessary data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 2,500 revisions of that post, the total database space wasted is about 250MB.

The good news is that there are some great plugins for WordPress available to help you control and manage your revisions and reduce the size of your 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 as well as other revision-related content like meta data, relationships, tags, and more.

After the plugin has been installed and activated, Better Delete Revision can optimize your WP database without having to log into your server.

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

(Settings – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions related to each post, the plugin returns a table of post revisions stored in your WP database …

(List of revisions)

Click on ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ to clear all list items from your WordPress database, or choose ‘No, I prefer to keep them!’ to abandon the task and exit the Better Delete Revision Manager settings page …

(Remove posts revisions)

The unnecessary items will be cleared from the WordPress database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Revisions list cleared)

After some time has passed, therefore, we recommend repeating this process to keep your WordPress database as lean as possible, since WordPress will automatically begin to save your new post revisions again (unless you specifically turn the feature off) …

(Revisions automatically start again!)

You can also use Better Delete Revisions to keep the WordPress database optimized …

(Optimize the site’s database)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if your WP database needs optimization and lets you perform an easy one-click table optimization routine without requiring you to log into your hosting panel or use technical database management tools …

(Better Delete Revision checks if your 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)

OptimizeDatabase not only can be used to prune redundant revisions of posts and pages (it also lets you keep an ’x’ amount of your most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click optimization maintenance routine, it also lets you do maintenance tasks such as:

• Delete trashed pages, posts, and comments
• Delete unused tags
• Delete ’orphan postmeta items’
• Exclude certain pages/posts and tables from cleaning and optimization
• Create a log file of the optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin For WordPress – 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 unnecessary revisions of posts and pages and performing WordPress database table cleaning and optimization maintenance, this plugin also lets you perform the following maintenance tasks:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Removal of spam comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site on the go)
• Removal of all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clear out post trash
• Ability to keep selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization scheduling
• View database table statistics
• Receive email notifications on automatic cleanup
• Marks potentially dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize – WordPress Plugin Settings Panel)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize

WP-Sweep

(WP-Sweep WordPress Plugin)

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

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

(WP-Sweep Plugin – Settings Panel)

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 “Post Revisions“, “Database Optimize“, etc …

(Plugins Menu – Add 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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