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 Content Revisions – WordPress Plugins

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

(Post Editor screen – The revisions list)

For most WordPress users, having functions like autosave and revisions is no doubt something that helps make work more efficient. If you write extensively, however, the revisions can start building up. This can significantly increase 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 you have 100 posts on your site and each post has 15 revisions your database could be storing up to 1,500 copies of old data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 1,500 post revisions, the total space wasted is about 150MB.

The good news is that there are a few great WordPress plugins available to help you manage 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 removes redundant post revisions from your WordPress database and other database content related to each revision such as relationships, tags, meta information, and more.

After installing and activating the plugin, you can use it to optimize your WP database.

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

(WP Settings – Better Delete Revision)

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)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions stored with each post entry, the plugin calculates and displays a list of revisions stored in your WP database …

(Posts revisions – Better Delete Revision Manager)

Click on the ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ button to remove all list items from your WordPress database, or select ‘No, I prefer to keep them!’ to cancel the task and exit the plugin …

(Better Delete Revision – Clear posts revisions list)

The unnecessary items will be removed from your WordPress database …

(Revisions list cleared – Better Delete Revision)

As WordPress automatically saves your new revisions, the process will automatically begin again (unless you specifically turn the feature off). After a while, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WP database as lean as possible …

(WordPress will automatically begin storing all new post revisions again!)

Like the other plugins listed in this section, you can also use Better Delete Revisions to keep the WordPress database optimized …

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

Better Delete Revision checks to see if your database needs to be optimized and provides a one-click WordPress database optimization maintenance routine without the need to log into your server panel or mess with technical applications …

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

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision Plugin

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions WP Plugin)

This plugin is similar to the one described above. It not only lets you remove unnecessary revisions of posts and pages (it also lets you keep an ‘x’-amount of your most recent revisions) and checks if the WP database tables need optimization, it also lets you do the following maintenance tasks:

• Delete trashed pages, posts, and comments
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ’orphan postmeta items’
• Exclude selected tables and/or specific pages/posts from cleaning and optimization
• Automatically schedule optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin – Settings Page)

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

WP-Optimize

(WP-Optimize Plugin)

In addition to deleting redundant revisions of posts and pages and checking if the database tables need optimization, WP Optimize also lets you perform database maintenance tasks like:

• Enable/Disable comments for all published posts
• Removal of trashed comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site anywhere, anytime)
• Remove trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to retain data from selected number of weeks when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly schedules of optimization
• See database table statistics
• Receive email notifications on automatic cleanup
• Marks dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize Plugin – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP-Optimize Plugin

WP-Sweep

(WP-Sweep)

In addition to optimizing your database tables and deleting unnecessary revisions, this plugin also cleans up:

• Auto drafts
• Deleted comments
• Orphan term relationships
• Duplicated post meta
• Unused terms
• And more!

(WPSweep Plugin For WordPress – Settings)

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

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“, “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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