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 Post Revisions – WordPress Plugins

As soon as you save your posts and pages, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. These are displayed in a Revisions section at the bottom of your page editor …

(The post revisions list)

For most WordPress users, having features like autosave and automatic revisions is undoubtedly something that contributes to making work more productive. If you write and edit 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.

(As you write more posts, your database could be storing lots of unnecessary data)

For example, if there are 50 posts on your site with an average of 10 revisions each you could be storing around 1,000 copies of old data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 1,000 revisions of that post, the total space wasted is about 100MB.

The good news is that there are a number of free plugins that can help you control your revisions and reduce the size of your database. Here are some of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision)

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

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

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

(Settings Menu – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

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

(List of revisions)

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

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Delete posts revisions)

The redundant data will be removed from your WP database …

(Better Delete Revision – List of post revisions deleted)

After a period of time, therefore, we recommend repeating this process to keep your database as light as possible, since WordPress automatically begins saving all new post revisions again (unless you have chosen to turn the feature off) …

(Revisions automatically start again!)

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

(Better Delete Revision – Keep your WordPress database optimized)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if your database needs optimization and performs a one-click database table optimization routine without requiring you to log into your server panel …

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

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin)

OptimizeDatabase not only can be used to delete redundant revisions of pages and posts (it also lets you keep a specific number of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click database optimization routine, it also lets you do the following optional maintenance tasks:

• Delete trashed pages, comments, and posts
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ’orphan postmeta items’
• Exclude selected posts/pages and tables from optimization
• Create a log file of the optimizations
• And more!

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

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

WP-Optimize

(WP Optimize Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as deleting redundant revisions of pages and posts and checking if your WordPress database tables need optimization, WP Optimize also lets you do the following maintenance tasks:

• Enable/Disable comments for published posts
• Remove unapproved comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site from anywhere)
• Remove trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clear out post trash
• Ability to retain selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly schedules of optimization
• See database table statistics (e.g. how much space can be optimized
• Receive email notifications after scheduled database cleanups
• Marks dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize WordPress Plugin – Settings)

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

WP-Sweep

(WP Sweep – WordPress Plugin)

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

• Auto drafts
• Spammed comments
• Orphan comment meta
• Duplicated term meta
• Transient options
• 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 database, go to Plugins > Add New and type in keywords like “Post Revisions“, “Database Optimize“, etc …

(Add New Plugins – WordPress 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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