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/Page Revision Management Using Plugins

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

(Post Editor screen – View the Revisions list)

Autosave and post revisions are no doubt features that help create a more effective workflow. If you write and edit a lot of content, however, the number of revisions can start to build up. This can significantly bloat the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to manage your revisions.

(As post revisions accumulate, your WordPress database could be storing lots of unnecessary data)

For example, if there are 300 posts on your site and each post has 20 revisions you could be storing around 6,000 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 6,000 revisions, the total database space wasted is about 600MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Plugin)

This plugin deletes redundant post revisions from your database as well as other database content associated with each revision such as relationships, meta data, tags, and more.

After installing and activating the plugin, the plugin can perform optimizations on your database without having to log into your server.

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

(Better Delete Revision – WP Settings Menu)

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

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Check Revision Posts)

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

(List of revisions – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Clear posts revisions)

The unnecessary post revisions will be cleared from your WP database …

(List of post revisions cleared)

As WordPress automatically saves your post revisions, the process will automatically start again. After some time has passed, therefore, we recommend repeating this process to keep your WordPress database as lean as possible …

(Revisions automatically start being saved again!)

You can also use Better Delete Revisions to keep the site’s database optimized …

(Keep your site’s database optimized)

The plugin checks to see if the WordPress database tables need to be optimized and provides a one-click optimization function that does not require you to log into your hosting panel …

(Better Delete Revision checks if the WP database tables need to be optimized)

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions)

OptimizeDatabase not only lets you delete unnecessary page and post revisions (with the option to keep a specific number of your most recent revisions) and checks if your database needs optimization, it also lets you perform the following:

• Delete trashed pages, comments, and posts
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ’orphan post meta items’
• Exclude certain tables or even specific pages/posts from optimization
• Automatically schedule optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – WordPress Plugin Settings)

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

WP Optimize

(WP Optimize – WordPress Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as deleting redundant post and page revisions and performing optimization maintenance, WP Optimize also lets you do the following maintenance tasks:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Remove trashed comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site from anywhere)
• Remove trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clear out post trash
• Ability to keep selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Option to add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization schedules
• View database table statistics
• E-mail notifications on automatic database cleanup
• Displays dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize Plugin – Settings)

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

WP Sweep

(WP Sweep – WordPress Plugin)

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

• Auto drafts
• Deleted comments
• Orphaned user meta
• Duplicated user meta
• Unused terms
• And more!

(WP Sweep Plugin For WordPress – 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

In addition to the above plugins, you can view more plugins that can help you manage post revisions and optimize your database, go to Plugins > Add New and search for keywords like “Revisions“, “Database Optimize“, etc …

(Add Plugin – 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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