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 Revisions – WordPress Plugins

As soon as you update a page or post, WordPress begins to store new revisions in its database. These are displayed in a Revisions section at the bottom of the 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 and edit often, however, after a while the number of revisions can start to build up. This can significantly increase 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 there are 100 posts on your site and each post has an average of 10 revisions your WordPress database could be storing around 1,000 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 1,000 revisions of that post, the total space wasted is about 100MB.

Fortunately, there are a few great WordPress plugins to help you control and manage your revisions and reduce the size of your WordPress database. Here are a few of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision WP Plugin)

This plugin deletes redundant post revisions from your database as well as database content belonging to each revision such as meta data, relationships, tags, and more.

After the plugin has been installed and activated, you can use the plugin to perform optimizations on your database.

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

(Better Delete Revision – WP Settings)

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

(Better Delete Revision – Check Revision Posts)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions associated with each post entry, the plugin calculates and returns a table of revisions stored in your WordPress database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – List of revisions)

Click on the button below the list to delete the items from the WordPress database, or select ‘No, I prefer to keep them!’ to exit the tool …

(Better Delete Revision – Clear list of revisions)

The redundant post revisions will be removed from your database …

(Revisions removed)

As WordPress automatically saves all new revisions, the process will automatically begin again (unless you specifically turn the feature off). After a while and depending on the amount of content you have published on your website, we recommend repeating this process to keep your WP database as light as possible …

(WordPress will automatically begin saving your revisions again!)

You can also use Better Delete Revisions to optimize your database …

(Optimize your database – Better Delete Revision)

The plugin checks to see if the WP database tables need to be optimized and lets you perform an easy one-click WordPress database optimization routine without requiring you to log into your hosting panel …

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

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions)

OptimizeDatabase not only lets you remove unnecessary post and page revisions (it also lets you keep a specific number of your most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click optimization routine, it also lets you perform the following maintenance tasks:

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin – Settings Page)

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

WP Optimize

(WP Optimize Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as cleaning unnecessary post and page revisions and checking if the database tables need optimization, this plugin also lets you perform the following:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Remove trashed comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site on the go)
• Remove all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to retain selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Option to add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization scheduling
• Display database table statistics
• Receive email notifications on scheduled cleanups
• Highlights dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize Plugin For WordPress – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize – WordPress Plugin

WP Sweep

(WP-Sweep)

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

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

(WP-Sweep – Settings Page)

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 WP database, go to Plugins > Add New and type in keywords like “Revisions“, “Optimize“, etc …

(Add Plugin – 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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