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 Using Plugins

As soon as you create, edit, and save your pages/posts, WordPress begins to store new revisions in its database. These show up in a Revisions list below your content editor …

(Post Editor section – The post revisions box)

Autosave and post revisions are no doubt functions that help create a more effective workflow. If you write and edit often, however, after a while the number of revisions can start building up. This can significantly bloat 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 50 posts published on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your database could be storing up to 1,000 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 1,000 revisions, the total database space wasted is about 100MB.

Fortunately, there are several plugins that can help you control your revisions and reduce the size of your WordPress database. Let’s take a look at a few:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision WP Plugin)

Better Delete Revision removes redundant post revisions from your database as well as database content associated with each revision such as meta information, tags, relationships, and more.

After the plugin has been installed and activated, Better Delete Revision can optimize your database without having to log into your server.

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

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Settings Menu)

This brings you to the Better Delete Revision Manager area. Click the ‘Check Revision Posts’ button to calculate how many redundant post revisions can be safely removed from the WP database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Posts revisions list)

Click on ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ to delete all list items from your WordPress database …

(Clear list of post revisions – Better Delete Revision)

The redundant post information will be cleared from the database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – List of post revisions removed)

After some time has passed, therefore, we recommend running the tool again to keep your database as lean as possible, since WordPress automatically begins storing your post revisions again (unless you have chosen to turn the feature off) …

(WordPress will automatically begin saving all new post revisions again!)

You can also use Better Delete Revisions to keep the database optimized …

(Optimize your database – Better Delete Revision)

The plugin checks to see if the WordPress database needs to be optimized and provides a one-click table optimization function that does not require you to log into your server control panel …

(Better Delete Revision checks if the database tables need to be optimized)

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin For WordPress)

This plugin is similar to the one described above. It not only lets you remove unnecessary revisions of pages and posts (with the added option to keep an ‘x’-amount of the most recent revisions) and checks if the WordPress database tables need to be trimmed, cleaned, and optimized, it also lets you do the following:

• Delete trashed posts, pages, and comments
• Delete unused tags
• Delete ’pingbacks’ and ‘trackbacks’
• Exclude selected pages/posts and tables from optimization
• Automatically schedule optimizations
• And more!

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

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

WP-Optimize

(WP-Optimize Plugin)

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

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

(WP-Optimize Plugin – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize WP Plugin

WP Sweep

(WP Sweep WordPress Plugin)

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

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

(WPSweep – WordPress Plugin 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 WordPress database, go to Plugins > Add New and type in keywords like “Manage Post Revisions“, “Optimize“, 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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