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 WordPress Plugins

As soon as you update a post/page, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. These show up in a Revisions box at the bottom of your content editor …

(Post Editor screen – The Post revisions list)

Autosave and revisions are no doubt functions that help make work more productive. If you write and edit often, however, the number of revisions can start building up. This can significantly increase 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 100 posts published on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your database could be storing an extra 1,500 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 1,500 post revisions, the total space wasted is about 150MB.

Fortunately, there are several free WordPress plugins that can help you control 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 post revisions from your database and database content belonging to each revision such as relationships, meta information, tags, and more.

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

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

(WP Settings – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Posts revisions list)

Click on ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ below the list to remove all items from your database, or cancel the task and exit the Better Delete Revision settings page …

(Remove list of revisions)

The unnecessary revisions will be cleared from your WordPress database …

(Revisions list removed)

As WordPress automatically stores your revisions, the process will automatically start again. After some time has passed, we recommend running the tool again to keep your database as lean as possible …

(WordPress will automatically begin storing your revisions again!)

Like the other plugins described in this section, you can also use the plugin to optimize your site’s database …

(Keep your site’s database optimized)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if your WordPress database tables need optimization and lets you perform a one-click optimization maintenance routine without the need to log into your server control panel …

(Better Delete Revision checks if the WordPress database needs to be optimized)

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions WordPress Plugin)

OptimizeDatabase not only lets you delete redundant post and page revisions (with the option of keeping a specific number of the most recent revisions) and checks if the database tables need to be cleaned and optimized, it also lets you perform optional maintenance tasks like:

• Delete trashed pages, posts, and comments
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ’orphan post meta items’
• Exclude certain tables and/or specific pages/posts from cleaning and optimization
• Automatically schedule optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions WP Plugin – Settings)

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

WP-Optimize

(WP-Optimize Plugin)

In addition to removing unnecessary revisions of posts and pages and checking if the WordPress database needs optimization, WP Optimize also lets you do maintenance tasks like:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Removal of trashed comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Remove trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clear out post trash
• Ability to keep selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization scheduling
• Display database table statistics (e.g. how much space has been cleared
• Receive email notifications after scheduled cleanups
• Displays potentially dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize

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
• Orphaned post meta
• Duplicated user meta
• Transient options
• And more!

(WPSweep – 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 type in keywords like “Revisions“, “Optimize“, etc …

(Add New 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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