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 Content Revisions – WordPress Plugins

As soon as you update your pages and posts, WordPress begins to store new revisions in its database. These are displayed in a Revisions section at the bottom of the post editor …

(Post Editor section – Viewing the WordPress revisions box)

Having autosave and automatic revisions is no doubt a good thing. If you write extensively, however, the revisions can start building up. This can significantly grow 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 you have 100 posts on your site and each post has an average of 20 revisions your database could be storing around 2,000 copies of old data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 2,000 revisions, the total database space wasted is about 200MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin For WordPress)

This plugin deletes redundant revisions of posts from your database and other database content associated with each revision such as meta data, relationships, tags, and more.

After the plugin has been installed and activated, the plugin can optimize your WordPress database.

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

(WP Settings – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions related to each post, the plugin returns a table of post revisions stored in your database …

(Posts revisions – Better Delete Revision)

Click on the ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ button below the list to clear all items from your database, or exit the plugin with your post revisions undeleted …

(Remove list of revisions – Better Delete Revision)

The unnecessary data will be deleted from the WP database …

(Revisions list removed)

After a period of time and depending on the number of posts you have published on your site, therefore, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WordPress database as light as possible, since WordPress automatically begins saving all post revisions again (unless you have turned the feature off) …

(Post revisions automatically start again!)

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

(Optimize your database – Better Delete Revision Manager)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if the WP database needs to be optimized and provides a one-click optimization feature without the need to log into your server panel …

(Better Delete Revision checks if the database needs optimization)

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin For WordPress)

OptimizeDatabase not only can be used to delete unnecessary revisions of posts and pages (it also lets you keep an ‘x’-amount of the most recent revisions) and checks if the WP database needs cleaning and optimization, it also lets you perform database maintenance tasks like:

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – WordPress Plugin Settings)

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

WP-Optimize

(WP-Optimize)

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

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Remove unapproved comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Remove all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clear out the post trash
• 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 automatic cleanups
• Highlights dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize Plugin – Settings Page)

For more details, go here: WP-Optimize Plugin

WP-Sweep

(WP-Sweep Plugin For WordPress)

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

• Auto drafts
• Spammed comments
• Orphaned user meta
• Duplicated user meta
• Unused terms
• And more!

(WP-Sweep – WordPress Plugin Settings Panel)

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

(WordPress Plugins Menu – Add New)

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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