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 save pages and posts, WordPress begins to store revisions of the content in its database. You can see these displayed in a Revisions section below the page or post …

(View the WordPress revisions box)

Autosave and post revisions are no doubt features that help make work more productive. If you write a lot of content, however, the revisions can start building up. This can significantly bloat 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 you have 200 posts on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your WordPress database could be storing around 2,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 2,000 revisions, the total database space wasted is about 200MB.

Fortunately, there are some great (and free) plugins for WordPress that can help you control and 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 like tags, meta data, relationships, and more.

After installing and activating the plugin, Better Delete Revision can perform optimizations on your database.

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

(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 you can safely remove from your database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Check Revision Posts)

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

(Better Delete Revision Manager – List of post revisions)

Click on the ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ button to clear all list items from the WP database …

(Clear list of post revisions)

The unnecessary data will be deleted from your database …

(List of post revisions deleted)

As WordPress automatically saves all new revisions, the process will automatically begin again. After a while, therefore, we recommend running the tool again to keep your database as lean as possible …

(Post revisions automatically start being stored again!)

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

(Better Delete Revision – Optimize the database)

The plugin checks to see if your database needs to be optimized and provides a one-click table optimization maintenance routine without the need to log into your hosting panel or use technical tools …

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

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

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 remove redundant post and page revisions (it also lets you keep an ‘x’-amount of your most recent revisions) and checks if your WordPress database tables need to be trimmed, cleaned, and optimized, it also lets you do the following maintenance tasks:

• Delete trashed posts, pages, and comments
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ’pingbacks’ and ‘trackbacks’
• Exclude selected posts/pages and tables from cleaning and optimization
• Automatically schedule optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin – Settings)

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

WP Optimize

(WP-Optimize Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as removing unnecessary revisions of pages and posts and checking if your WordPress database tables need to be cleaned and optimized, WP Optimize also lets you perform the following maintenance tasks:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Remove stale unapproved comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site anywhere, anytime)
• Remove all 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 on scheduled database cleanups
• Marks potentially dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize Plugin – Settings Panel)

For more details, go here: WP-Optimize Plugin

WP Sweep

(WP-Sweep)

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

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

(WPSweep – WordPress 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 “Revisions“, “Optimize“, etc …

(Add 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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