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 create, edit, and update your pages/posts, WordPress begins to store new revisions of the content in its database. These show up in a Revisions box below your page or post …

(Viewing the WordPress revisions list – Post Editor section)

Having autosave and revisions is undoubtedly a great thing. If you write and edit extensively, however, over time the revisions can start to build up. This can significantly increase the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to manage your revisions.

(As you write more posts, your WordPress database could be storing lots of unnecessary data)

For example, if there are 10 posts on your site with an average of 5 revisions each you could be storing around 500 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 500 revisions, the total space wasted is about 50MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin For WordPress)

This plugin removes redundant revisions of posts from your WordPress database and database content belonging to each revision such as meta data, relationships, tags, and more.

After installing and activating the plugin, the plugin can optimize your WordPress database.

Go to your WP administration section and select Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Better Delete Revision – Settings Menu)

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

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

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

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Posts revisions)

Click on the ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ button below the list to delete all items from the database, or select the ‘No, …’ button to abandon the operation and exit the plugin with all post revisions undeleted …

(Delete posts revisions – Better Delete Revision)

The unnecessary data will be cleared from the database …

(Revisions deleted – Better Delete Revision)

After a while and depending on the number of posts you have published on your site, therefore, we recommend repeating this process to keep your WordPress database as lean as possible, since WordPress automatically begins storing your post revisions again …

(WordPress will automatically begin to store your new revisions again!)

You can also use the plugin to optimize your WP database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Optimize the database)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if your WordPress database needs to be optimized and lets you perform a one-click optimization maintenance routine without requiring you to log into your hosting panel …

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

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions WP Plugin)

The Optimize Database plugin not only can be used to remove unnecessary revisions of pages and posts (it also lets you keep a specific number of your most recent revisions) and lets you perform an easy one-click WordPress database cleaning and optimization routine, it also lets you do optional maintenance tasks such as:

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

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

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

WP-Optimize

(WP-Optimize)

In addition to performing tasks such as removing redundant post and page revisions and checking if the database needs cleaning and optimization, WP Optimize also lets you do the following maintenance tasks:

• Enable/Disable comments for published posts
• Remove unapproved comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site from anywhere)
• Removal of all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to retain selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization scheduling
• See database table statistics
• Receive email notifications on scheduled cleanups
• Marks potentially dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize – Settings Page)

For more details, go here: WP-Optimize WP Plugin

WP-Sweep

(WP-Sweep Plugin)

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

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

(WP-Sweep Plugin – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Sweep WP 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 WordPress database, go to Plugins > Add New and search for keywords like “Manage Revisions“, “Optimize Database“, etc …

(Add New 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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