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 Post Revisions Using Plugins

As soon as you edit and save pages and posts, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. These appear in a Revisions section below the page editor …

(View the revisions list – Post Editor screen)

For most WordPress users, having access to workflow functions like autosave and automatic revisions is no doubt a great thing. If you write and edit a lot of content, however, after a while the number of revisions can start building up. This can significantly grow the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to be able to manage your revisions.

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

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

The good news is that there are various WordPress plugins available that can help you control your revisions and reduce the size of your WordPress database. Here are a few:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision)

Better Delete Revision removes redundant post revisions from your WordPress database and database content associated with each revision such as meta information, tags, relationships, and more.

After the plugin has been installed and activated, Better Delete Revision can perform optimizations on your database.

In the Dashboard menu area, select 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 safely delete from your database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions stored with each post, the plugin calculates and returns a table of revisions stored in the database …

(List of post revisions – Better Delete Revision Manager)

Click on ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ below the list to remove all items from the WordPress database, or exit the tool with all post revisions undeleted …

(Remove list of post revisions)

The unnecessary post information will be removed from your database …

(Better Delete Revision – Revisions removed)

As WordPress automatically saves all new post revisions, the process will automatically begin again (unless you specifically turn the feature off). After a period of time, therefore, we recommend repeating this process to keep your WP database as lean as possible …

(Revisions automatically start being saved again!)

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

(Better Delete Revision – Keep the site’s database optimized)

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

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

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision Plugin

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions WP Plugin)

OptimizeDatabase not only lets you remove redundant revisions of posts and pages (with the added option of keeping an ’x’ amount of your most recent revisions) and checks if your database needs cleaning and optimization, it also lets you perform the following maintenance tasks:

• Delete trashed pages, comments, and posts
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ’pingbacks’ and ‘trackbacks’
• Exclude specific posts/pages and tables from 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 – WordPress Plugin

WP Optimize

(WP Optimize – WordPress Plugin)

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

• Enable/Disable comments for all published posts
• Remove unapproved comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Remove all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clear out the post trash
• Ability to retain selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly schedules of optimization
• Display database table statistics
• Receive email notifications on automatic cleanup
• Highlights dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize Plugin For WordPress – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP-Optimize Plugin

WP Sweep

(WP-Sweep Plugin For WordPress)

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

• Auto drafts
• Spammed comments
• Orphan post meta
• Duplicated user meta
• Transient options
• And more!

(WPSweep WP Plugin – Settings Screen)

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

In addition to the above plugins, you can view more plugins that can help you manage post revisions and optimize your WordPress database, go to Plugins > Add New and type in keywords like “Post Revisions“, “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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