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 Plugins

As soon as you create, edit, and update posts and pages, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. You can see these displayed in a Revisions list at the bottom of the post or page …

(Revisions list)

Autosave and revisions are no doubt features that help make work more productive. If you write and edit often, however, the revisions can start to build up. This can significantly bloat the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to manage your revisions.

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

For example, if you have 300 posts on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your database could be storing around 6,000 copies of old data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 6,000 revisions, the total database space wasted is about 600MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Plugin)

Better Delete Revision deletes redundant post revisions from your WordPress database as well as other database content associated with each revision such as meta information, tags, relationships, and more.

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

Log into your WordPress admin section, then go to your navigation menu and choose click on Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(WordPress Settings – 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 removed from the WordPress database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision)

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

(List of revisions)

Click on ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ to delete all list items from your database …

(Clear posts revisions)

The redundant revisions will be cleared from the WordPress database …

(Revisions removed – Better Delete Revision)

As WordPress automatically stores all new revisions, the process will automatically start again. After some time has passed 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 WordPress database as light as possible …

(WordPress automatically begins storing your new post revisions again!)

You can also use the plugin to optimize your WordPress database …

(Optimize the WP database – Better Delete Revision)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if the WP database tables need to be optimized and runs a one-click database optimization routine without requiring you to log into your server panel or mess with technical database management tools …

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

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions WordPress Plugin)

The Optimize Database plugin not only lets you remove unnecessary page and post revisions (with the added option of keeping an ‘x’-amount of your most recent revisions) and checks if your WordPress database tables need optimization, it also lets you perform the following maintenance tasks:

• Delete trashed posts, pages, and comments
• Delete unused tags
• Delete ’orphan post meta items’
• Exclude specific posts/pages and tables from optimization
• Automatically schedule optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – Settings Screen)

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

WP Optimize

(WP Optimize)

In addition to deleting unnecessary post and page revisions and performing database cleaning and optimization maintenance, this plugin also lets you do maintenance tasks like:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for published posts
• Remove trashed comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site on the go)
• Remove all 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 schedules of optimization
• See database table statistics
• E-mail notifications after scheduled cleanup
• Marks dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize – WordPress Plugin Settings)

For more details, go here: WP-Optimize WP 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
• Spammed comments
• Orphaned term relationships
• Duplicated term meta
• Unused terms
• And more!

(WP-Sweep – WordPress Plugin Settings Page)

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

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 “Manage Revisions“, “Database Optimize“, etc …

(WordPress 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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