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 Plugins

As soon as you edit and update your posts and pages, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. You can see these displayed in a Revisions list at the bottom of your content editor …

(Post Editor screen – View the WordPress post revisions list)

Autosave and revisions are no doubt functions that help make work more productive. If you write and 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 be able to manage your revisions.

(Post revisions can really add up after a while)

For example, if you have 200 posts published on your site and each post has 20 revisions your WordPress database could be storing around 4,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 4,000 revisions of that post, the total space wasted is about 400MB.

Fortunately, there are several free WordPress plugins to help you control your revisions and reduce the size of your WordPress database. Here are some of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Plugin)

Better Delete Revision removes redundant revisions of posts from your database and other database content associated with each revision like tags, relationships, meta information, and more.

After installing and activating the plugin, the plugin can perform optimizations on your database.

Go to your Dashboard and click on Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(WordPress Settings Menu – Better Delete Revision)

This brings you to the Better Delete Revision Manager screen. Click ’Check Revision Posts’ to calculate the number of redundant post revisions can be safely removed from the WordPress database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

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

(Posts revisions list)

Click on the button below the list to delete all items from the database, or abandon the operation and exit the plugin screen …

(Delete posts revisions – Better Delete Revision)

The redundant data will be deleted from the database …

(Revisions removed – Better Delete Revision)

As WordPress automatically saves all post revisions, the process will automatically begin again. After a while and depending on the number of posts you have published on your website and their associated post revisions, therefore, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WP database as light as possible …

(WordPress automatically begins storing all post revisions again!)

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

(Optimize your WP database)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if your database needs optimization and provides an easy one-click optimization function without the need to log into your hosting control panel …

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

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions WordPress Plugin)

OptimizeDatabase not only lets you delete unnecessary post and page revisions (with the option of keeping a specific number of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click cleaning and optimization maintenance routine, it also lets you do the following:

• Delete trashed comments, posts, and pages
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ’pingbacks’ and ‘trackbacks’
• Exclude selected tables and/or specific posts/pages from optimization
• Create a log file of the optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – Settings Page)

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

WP Optimize

(WP Optimize)

In addition to deleting redundant revisions of posts and pages and performing table optimization maintenance, WP Optimize also lets you perform database maintenance tasks such as:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Removal of trashed comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site from anywhere)
• Removal of all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to keep data from selected number of weeks when cleaning up
• Option to add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization schedules
• See database table statistics
• E-mail notifications on scheduled database cleanup
• Highlights dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize – WordPress Plugin Settings Panel)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize Plugin

WP Sweep

(WP-Sweep – WordPress Plugin)

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

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

(WP Sweep – Settings)

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

(Add Plugins – 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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