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 edit and save your posts/pages, WordPress begins to store new revisions in its database. These are displayed in a Revisions section at the bottom of the post or page …

(Post revisions box)

For most users, having features like autosave and revisions is a great thing. If you write or edit extensively, however, the revisions can start to build 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 on your site and each post has 20 revisions you could be storing an extra 4,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 4,000 revisions, the total database space wasted is about 400MB.

The good news is that there are a number of free 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 of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Plugin)

This plugin removes redundant post revisions from your database and other revision-related content such as relationships, meta data, tags, and more.

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

In your Dashboard, click on Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Better Delete Revision – Settings Menu)

This brings you to the Better Delete Revision Manager screen. Click ’Check Revision Posts’ to calculate how many redundant post revisions you can safely remove from the database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

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

(Posts revisions list)

Click on the ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ button to remove all list items from your WordPress database, or choose the ‘No, I prefer to keep them!’ button to abandon the task and exit the tool with all post revisions undeleted …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Clear posts revisions list)

The unnecessary data will be cleared from your WP database …

(Better Delete Revision – Revisions deleted)

As WordPress automatically saves all revisions, the process will automatically start again (unless you have turned the feature off). After a while, we recommend repeating this process to keep your database as light as possible …

(WordPress automatically begins to store all new revisions again!)

You can also use the plugin to optimize your site’s database …

(Optimize the site’s database)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if the database needs optimization and runs a one-click WP database optimization routine without the need to log into your server control panel …

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

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision Plugin

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin)

The Optimize Database plugin not only lets you remove redundant page and post revisions (with the added option of keeping a specific number of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform an easy one-click cleaning and optimization maintenance routine, it also lets you do optional maintenance tasks like:

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – WordPress Plugin Settings Page)

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

WP Optimize

(WP-Optimize)

In addition to performing tasks such as cleaning redundant post and page revisions and checking if your database needs to be cleaned and optimized, WP Optimize also lets you perform maintenance tasks like:

• Enable/Disable comments for all published posts
• Remove trashed comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site anywhere, anytime)
• Remove transient options
• Clear out post trash
• 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 schedules
• Display database table statistics (e.g. how much space can be optimized
• Receive email notifications on automatic database cleanups
• Marks 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)

WP Sweep allows you to clean up orphaned, duplicated, and unused data in your WordPress database, including post revisions. This plugin cleans up:

• Auto drafts
• Spammed comments
• Orphaned user meta
• Duplicated post meta
• Transient options
• And more!

(WP Sweep – Settings Screen)

For more details, go here: WP Sweep Plugin For WordPress

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

In addition to the above plugins, you can view 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 …

(WordPress Plugins Menu – Add New Plugins)

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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