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 Using Plugins

As soon as you update posts and pages, WordPress begins to store new revisions in its database. You can see these displayed in a Revisions section below your page editor …

(WordPress post revisions box)

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

(Post revisions can really add up after a while)

For example, if you have 200 posts published on your site and each post has an average of 10 revisions your database could be storing an extra 2,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 2,000 revisions of that post, the total space wasted is about 200MB.

The good news is that there are a number of plugins for WordPress available to help you manage your revisions and reduce the size of your WordPress database. Let’s take a look at a few:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin)

Better Delete Revision deletes redundant post revisions from your database as well as other database content belonging to each revision like meta data, tags, relationships, and more.

After installing and activating the plugin, you can optimize your WP database without having to log into your server.

In your WP Dashboard, select Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Settings Menu)

This brings you to the Better Delete Revision Manager area. Click the ‘Check Revision Posts’ button to calculate the number of redundant post revisions can be safely removed from the database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision)

A list of revisions stored in the WP database will display on the screen …

(List of revisions)

Click on the ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ button to remove all list items from the WordPress database, or abandon the task and exit the Better Delete Revision settings screen with your post revisions undeleted …

(Delete posts revisions)

The redundant post information will be deleted from your database …

(Better Delete Revision – Revisions removed)

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

(WordPress automatically begins to save all revisions again!)

You can also use the plugin to keep the WP database optimized …

(Keep your WordPress database optimized)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if the WP database tables need optimization and provides an easy one-click table optimization feature without requiring you to log into your server panel …

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

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin)

OptimizeDatabase not only lets you delete 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 optimization maintenance routine, it also lets you do optional maintenance tasks like:

• Delete trashed pages, posts, and comments
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ‘expired transients’
• Exclude selected pages/posts and tables from cleaning and optimization
• Create a log file of the optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions WordPress Plugin – Settings)

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

WP Optimize

(WP-Optimize WordPress Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as deleting redundant revisions of pages and posts and performing cleaning and optimization routines, this plugin also lets you do database maintenance tasks such as:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for published posts
• Removal of stale spam comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Remove trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to keep selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Option to add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization schedules
• View database table statistics
• Receive email notifications after automatic cleanup
• Displays potentially dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize Plugin For WordPress – Settings Panel)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize Plugin

WP-Sweep

(WP-Sweep Plugin)

In addition to optimizing your database tables and deleting unnecessary revisions, WP-Sweep also cleans up:

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

(WP Sweep – 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

For more plugins that can help you manage post revisions and optimize your WordPress 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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