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 save a post or page, WordPress begins to store revisions for your content in its database. These appear in a Revisions section below your page editor …

(Post Editor section – View the WordPress post revisions box)

Having access to content workflow functions like autosave and revisions is undoubtedly a timesaver. If you write or edit a lot of content, however, the number of revisions can start to build up. This can significantly grow the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to be able to manage your revisions.

(Post revisions can really add up after a while)

For example, if there are 100 posts published on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your WordPress database could be storing an extra 1,500 copies of unnecessary data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 1,500 revisions, the total space wasted is about 150MB.

Fortunately, there are various plugins that can help you manage 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 database as well as other revision-related content such as relationships, meta information, tags, and more.

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

In your Dashboard menu, select Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Settings Menu)

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 deleted from your database …

(Better Delete Revision – Check Revision Posts)

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

(List of revisions)

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

(Better Delete Revision – Delete list of post revisions)

The unnecessary data will be cleared from the database …

(Revisions deleted)

As WordPress automatically stores all new revisions, the process will automatically start again. After a period of time, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WP database as lean as possible …

(WordPress automatically begins to store your post revisions again!)

You can also use the plugin to keep your database optimized …

(Keep your database optimized)

The plugin checks to see if your database needs to be optimized and lets you perform an easy one-click table optimization routine that does not require you to log into your hosting control panel or use technical tools …

(Better Delete Revision lets you perform an easy one-click optimization maintenance routine)

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision Plugin For WordPress

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions)

The Optimize Database plugin not only can be used to prune redundant revisions of pages and posts (with the option of keeping an ‘x’-amount of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform an easy one-click optimization maintenance routine, it also lets you perform the following optional tasks:

• Delete trashed pages, comments, and posts
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ’pingbacks’ and ‘trackbacks’
• Exclude selected posts/pages 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 WP Plugin

WP Optimize

(WP-Optimize Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as removing unnecessary post and page revisions and checking if your WordPress database tables need to be optimized, WP Optimize also lets you do the following maintenance tasks:

• Enable/Disable comments for all published posts
• Removal of stale metadata from comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site from anywhere)
• Remove all transient options
• Clear out the post trash
• Ability to retain data from selected number of weeks when cleaning up
• Option to add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization scheduling
• See database table statistics (e.g. how much space can be optimized
• Receive email notifications on scheduled database cleanups
• Displays dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize WP Plugin – Settings Panel)

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

WP-Sweep

(WP-Sweep)

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

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

(WP Sweep Plugin For WordPress – Settings Page)

For more details, go here: WP Sweep Plugin For WordPress

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

(Add New 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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