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 update pages and posts, WordPress begins to store new revisions in its database. These appear in a Revisions section below the post editor …

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

Autosave and post revisions are no doubt functions that help make work more productive. If you write or edit extensively, however, over time the number of revisions can start building up. This can significantly grow the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to also be able to manage your revisions.

(Your WordPress database could be storing lots of unnecessary data)

For example, if there are 200 posts published on your site and each post has an average of 20 revisions your database could be storing around 4,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 4,000 post revisions, the total database space wasted is about 400MB.

The good news is that there are a few great WordPress plugins to 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 revisions of posts from your database as well as other revision-related content like tags, meta information, relationships, and more.

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

In the administration section, click on Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(WordPress Settings – Better Delete Revision)

This brings you to the Better Delete Revision Manager area. Click ’Check Revision Posts’ to calculate the number of redundant post revisions can be deleted from your WP database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Check Revision Posts)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions related to each post entry, the plugin will then calculate and display a list of revisions stored in your WP database …

(Better Delete Revision – List of revisions)

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

(Remove list of post revisions)

The redundant items will be cleared from the WordPress database …

(List of post revisions cleared)

After a while, therefore, we recommend repeating this process to keep your WP database as light as possible, since WordPress will automatically begin saving your new revisions again (unless you have turned the feature off) …

(Revisions automatically start being saved again!)

You can also use the plugin to keep the site’s database optimized …

(Keep the database optimized – Better Delete Revision Manager)

The plugin checks to see if the database tables need to be optimized and provides an easy one-click optimization maintenance routine that does not require you to log into your hosting control panel …

(Better Delete Revision checks if the WordPress database needs to be optimized)

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions)

The Optimize Database plugin not only can be used to remove unnecessary revisions of posts and pages (it also lets you keep a specific number of your most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click WP database table cleaning and optimization routine, it also lets you perform optional maintenance tasks like:

• Delete trashed comments, posts, and pages
• Delete unused tags
• Delete ’orphan post meta items’
• Exclude certain tables and/or specific posts/pages 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 WP Plugin

WP-Optimize

(WP Optimize – WordPress Plugin)

In addition to deleting redundant revisions of posts and pages and performing database cleaning and optimization routines, WP Optimize also lets you perform maintenance tasks like:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for published posts
• Remove spam comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site from anywhere)
• Remove trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to keep selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization scheduling
• Display database table statistics (e.g. how much space has been cleared
• E-mail notifications after scheduled cleanups
• Marks potentially dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize Plugin For WordPress – Settings Screen)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize WordPress Plugin

WP-Sweep

(WP-Sweep)

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

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

(WPSweep – WordPress Plugin Settings Panel)

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

To 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“, “Optimize“, etc …

(Plugins Menu – Add Plugin)

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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