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 create, edit, and update pages and posts, WordPress begins to store new revisions in its database. These are displayed in a Revisions section at the bottom of your content editor …

(Post revisions box)

Autosave and post revisions are no doubt functions that help create a more effective workflow. If you write extensively, however, 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 database could be storing lots of unnecessary data)

For example, if there are 250 posts published on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your database could be storing up to 2,500 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 2,500 post revisions, the total database space wasted is about 250MB.

Fortunately, there are a few great plugins for WordPress to help you control and manage your revisions and reduce the size of your WordPress database. Here are some of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision)

This plugin removes redundant post revisions from your database and database content associated with each revision like meta information, tags, relationships, and more.

After the plugin has been installed and activated, the plugin can optimize your WordPress database.

In your Dashboard, select Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Settings)

This brings you to the Better Delete Revision Manager panel. Click ’Check Revision Posts’ to calculate the number of redundant post revisions you can delete from the WordPress database …

(Better Delete Revision – Check Revision Posts)

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

(Better Delete Revision – Posts revisions)

Click on ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ to delete all list items from your WordPress database, or select the ‘No, …’ button to abandon the operation and exit the tool …

(Clear list of post revisions)

The redundant items will be removed from the WordPress database …

(Revisions cleared – Better Delete Revision Manager)

After a while and depending on the number of posts you have published on your website and their associated post revisions, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WP database as light as possible, since WordPress will automatically begin storing your new post revisions again …

(Revisions automatically start being stored again!)

Like the other plugins described further below, you can also use this plugin to optimize the database …

(Better Delete Revision – Optimize your database)

The plugin checks to see if your database tables need optimization and performs a one-click database table optimization routine without the need to log into your hosting panel …

(Better Delete Revision checks if your WordPress database tables need to be optimized)

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin For WordPress)

This plugin is similar to the one described above. It not only lets you prune unnecessary revisions of pages and posts (it also lets you keep an ‘x’-amount of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform an easy one-click cleaning and optimization maintenance routine, it also lets you perform the following optional tasks:

• Delete trashed comments, pages, and posts
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ’orphan postmeta items’
• Exclude certain 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 WP Plugin)

In addition to deleting redundant post and page revisions and checking if the WP database needs to be cleaned and optimized, this plugin also lets you perform the following:

• Enable/Disable comments for all published posts
• Remove spam comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Remove transient options
• 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 optimization schedules
• Display database table statistics (e.g. how much space can be optimized
• E-mail notifications after scheduled cleanup
• Highlights dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize Plugin

WP-Sweep

(WP Sweep – WordPress Plugin)

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

• Auto drafts
• Unapproved comments
• Orphaned comment meta
• Duplicated comment meta
• Transient options
• And more!

(WP-Sweep – WordPress Plugin Settings Screen)

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

For more plugins that can help you manage post revisions and optimize your WordPress database, go to Plugins > Add New and search for keywords like “Revisions“, “Database Optimize“, etc …

(Add Plugins – 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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