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 update a page/post, WordPress begins to store revisions for the content in its database. You can see these displayed in a Revisions list at the bottom of your page editor …

(Post Editor section – View the Post revisions box)

Autosave and revisions are no doubt features that help make work more efficient. If you write a lot of content, however, the number of revisions can start building up. This can significantly bloat the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to also be able to manage your revisions.

(Post revisions can really add up after a while)

For example, if you have 300 posts on your site and each post has 20 revisions your WordPress database could be storing around 6,000 copies of old data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 6,000 post revisions, the total database space wasted is about 600MB.

The good news is that there are a number of plugins for WordPress to help you control and manage your revisions and reduce the size of your WordPress database. Here are a few:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin For WordPress)

Better Delete Revision removes redundant revisions of posts from your database as well as database content related to each revision such as tags, relationships, meta data, and more.

After the plugin has been installed and activated, you can use the Better Delete Revision Manager to optimize your WP database without having to log into your server.

In your WordPress Dashboard, choose Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Settings – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Check Revision Posts)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions related to each post, the plugin will then calculate and return a table of revisions stored in your database …

(List of revisions)

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

(Remove list of revisions – Better Delete Revision)

The redundant revisions will be removed from the WP database …

(Post revisions list deleted – Better Delete Revision Manager)

After a while and depending on the amount of content you have published on your site, we recommend running the tool again to keep your database as light as possible, since WordPress automatically begins to store your new revisions again …

(WordPress automatically begins to save all revisions again!)

You can also use Better Delete Revisions to keep your WP database optimized …

(Keep the database optimized)

The plugin checks to see if the WP database tables need to be optimized and provides a one-click database optimization maintenance routine without the need to log into your server panel or use complicated applications …

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

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin For WordPress)

OptimizeDatabase not only can be used to prune unnecessary revisions of posts and pages (with the option to keep a specific number of your most recent revisions) and checks if the database needs to be cleaned and optimized, it also lets you do optional maintenance tasks such as:

• Delete trashed pages, comments, and posts
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ‘expired transients’
• Exclude specific pages/posts and tables from 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 Plugin

WP-Optimize

(WP Optimize – WordPress Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as cleaning redundant page and post revisions and performing table cleaning and optimization maintenance, WP Optimize also lets you perform maintenance tasks such as:

• Enable/Disable comments for published posts
• Remove akismet metadata from comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Remove transient options
• Clear out post trash
• Ability to retain data from selected number of weeks when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization scheduling
• View database table statistics (e.g. how much space has been cleared
• Receive email notifications on automatic database cleanups
• Marks dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize WordPress Plugin

WP-Sweep

(WP-Sweep – WordPress Plugin)

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

• Auto drafts
• Spammed comments
• Orphan term meta
• Duplicated comment meta
• Unused terms
• And more!

(WPSweep – WordPress Plugin Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Sweep

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 search for keywords like “Manage Revisions“, “Optimize Database“, etc …

(Add Plugin – 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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