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 edit and save posts and pages, WordPress begins to store new revisions of the content in its database. These appear in a Revisions section below the page editor …

(Post Editor section – Viewing the Revisions list)

Having autosave and revisions is very useful. If you write or edit a lot of content, however, the revisions can start building up. This can significantly increase the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to manage your revisions.

(Your database could be storing lots of unnecessary data)

For example, if you have 100 posts on your site and each post has an average of 20 revisions you could be storing up to 2,000 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 2,000 post revisions, the total database space wasted is about 200MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision WP Plugin)

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

After installing and activating the plugin, Better Delete Revision can optimize your WordPress database.

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

(Better Delete Revision – WP Settings)

This brings you to the Better Delete Revision Manager area. Click the ‘Check Revision Posts’ button to calculate how many redundant post revisions you can delete from the WP database …

(Better Delete Revision – Check Revision Posts)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions related to each post entry, the plugin display a list of post revisions stored in the WP database …

(Posts revisions)

Click on the button below the list to remove all items from the database …

(Delete posts revisions)

The unnecessary items will be deleted from the database …

(Post revisions list removed)

After a period of time and depending on the number of posts you have published on your site and their associated post revisions, we recommend running the tool again to keep your database as light as possible, since WordPress will automatically begin to save all new revisions again …

(WordPress will automatically begin storing your revisions again!)

Like the other plugins listed further below, you can also use Better Delete Revisions to optimize your database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Optimize the WordPress database)

The plugin checks to see if the database tables need to be optimized and provides an easy one-click table optimization function that does not require you to log into your server control panel or use complicated applications …

(Better Delete Revision checks if your WP database needs optimization)

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision Plugin

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin)

This plugin is similar to the one described above. It not only lets you prune redundant post and page revisions (with the added option to keep an ’x’ amount of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click WordPress database table cleaning and optimization routine, it also lets you do optional maintenance tasks such as:

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions WP Plugin – Settings)

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

WP-Optimize

(WP-Optimize Plugin)

In addition to deleting unnecessary page and post revisions and performing table optimization routines, WP Optimize also lets you do the following:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for published posts
• Removal of stale metadata from comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site anywhere, anytime)
• Remove all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clean up auto draft posts
• 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
• View database table statistics
• Receive email notifications on automatic cleanup
• Displays potentially dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize Plugin – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize WP Plugin

WP Sweep

(WP Sweep Plugin For WordPress)

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

• Auto drafts
• Spammed comments
• Orphan term relationships
• Duplicated comment meta
• Transient options
• And more!

(WP-Sweep WordPress Plugin – Settings Page)

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

(Add New – 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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