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 save your posts/pages, WordPress begins to store revisions for the content in its database. These are displayed in a Revisions box at the bottom of your page or post …

(Viewing the revisions list – Post Editor section)

Having workflow features like autosave and automatic revisions is something that helps make work more productive. If you write and 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 50 posts on your site and each post has 20 revisions you could be storing around 1,000 copies of old data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 1,000 post revisions, the total space wasted is about 100MB.

Fortunately, there are various plugins for WordPress available that can help you manage your revisions and reduce the size of your database. Here are a few of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Plugin)

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

After installing and activating the plugin, the plugin can optimize your WP database.

In your main menu section of your administration area, click on Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Settings Menu – Better Delete Revision)

This brings you to the Better Delete Revision Manager panel. Click ’Check Revision Posts’ to calculate how many redundant post revisions you can safely remove from your database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Posts revisions list – Better Delete Revision)

Click on ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ below the list to remove all items from your WordPress database, or abandon the process and exit the tool …

(Delete posts revisions)

The redundant post information will be removed from the WP database …

(Post revisions list cleared – Better Delete Revision)

As WordPress automatically stores your new post revisions, the process will automatically start again (unless you have chosen to turn the feature off). After some time has passed and depending on the amount of content you have published on your site, we recommend repeating this process to keep your WordPress database as light as possible …

(WordPress automatically begins to save your revisions again!)

You can also use this plugin to optimize the database …

(Keep the site’s database optimized)

The plugin checks to see if the WordPress database tables need to be optimized and provides a one-click optimization function without the need to log into your server panel …

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

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions)

OptimizeDatabase not only lets you delete unnecessary revisions of posts and pages (with the option of keeping a specific number of your most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click table cleaning and optimization maintenance routine, it also lets you do the following:

• Delete trashed pages, comments, and posts
• Delete unused tags
• Delete ‘expired transients’
• Exclude selected tables or even specific pages/posts from optimization
• Automatically schedule optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions WordPress Plugin – Settings Screen)

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

WP Optimize

(WP-Optimize Plugin For WordPress)

In addition to performing tasks such as cleaning redundant revisions of posts and pages and checking if the WP database needs cleaning and optimization, WP Optimize also lets you perform the following maintenance tasks:

• Enable/Disable comments for published posts
• Remove stale spam comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Removal of all transient options
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to keep data from selected number of weeks when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization scheduling
• See database table statistics
• Receive email notifications on automatic cleanups
• Highlights potentially dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize Plugin – Settings)

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

WP-Sweep

(WP-Sweep Plugin)

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

• Auto drafts
• Deleted comments
• Orphan user meta
• Duplicated user meta
• Unused terms
• And more!

(WPSweep Plugin – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Sweep 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 WP database, go to Plugins > Add New and type in keywords like “Manage Post Revisions“, “Optimize“, etc …

(Plugins Menu – Add New 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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