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 WordPress Plugins

As soon as you save pages and posts, WordPress begins to store revisions of your content in its database. These appear in a Revisions list at the bottom of your page or post …

(Post Editor section – Viewing the revisions list)

Autosave and revisions are no doubt functions that help create a more productive workflow. If you write and edit often, however, the number of revisions can start building up. This can significantly bloat 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 you have 200 posts published on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your database could be storing an extra 2,000 copies of old data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 2,000 revisions of that post, the total space wasted is about 200MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Plugin)

This plugin deletes redundant revisions of posts from your WordPress database and other revision-related content such as tags, relationships, meta information, and more.

After the plugin has been installed and activated, the plugin can perform optimizations on your WordPress database without having to log into your server.

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

(Settings Menu – Better Delete Revision)

This brings you to the Better Delete Revision Manager screen. Click ’Check Revision Posts’ to calculate how many redundant post revisions can be safely deleted from the WordPress database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision)

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

(List of post revisions)

Click on the ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ button below the list to remove the items from your database, or choose the ‘No, I prefer to keep them!’ button to abandon the process and exit the page with your post revisions undeleted …

(Clear posts revisions list – Better Delete Revision)

The unnecessary post information will be cleared from your database …

(Better Delete Revision – Post revisions removed)

After some time has passed, we recommend running the tool again to keep your database as light as possible, since WordPress will automatically begin saving your new post revisions again (unless you specifically turn the feature off) …

(Post revisions automatically start being stored again!)

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

(Optimize the database)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if the database needs to be optimized and lets you perform an easy one-click database optimization routine without requiring you to log into your server control panel …

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

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision Plugin

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin For WordPress)

OptimizeDatabase not only lets you remove redundant revisions of posts and pages (it also lets you keep an ‘x’-amount of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform an easy one-click table cleaning and optimization routine, it also lets you perform database maintenance tasks like:

• Delete trashed comments, pages, and posts
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ’pingbacks’ and ‘trackbacks’
• Exclude selected tables or specific pages/posts 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 cleaning redundant post and page revisions and checking if your WordPress database needs optimization, this plugin also lets you perform the following:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Remove spam comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site on the go)
• Remove transient options
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to retain selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization scheduling
• See database table statistics
• E-mail notifications on scheduled cleanup
• Displays dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize – WordPress Plugin Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize

WP-Sweep

(WP Sweep Plugin)

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

• Auto drafts
• Unapproved comments
• Orphaned comment meta
• Duplicated term meta
• Unused terms
• And more!

(WP Sweep Plugin For WordPress – Settings Panel)

For more details, go here: WP Sweep WordPress 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

For more plugins that can help you manage post revisions and optimize your WP database, go to Plugins > Add New and type in keywords like “Post Revisions“, “Optimize Database“, 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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