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 create, edit, and save your posts and pages, WordPress begins to store revisions of the content in its database. You can see these displayed in a Revisions section at the bottom of your page or post …

(Post revisions list)

Having autosave and revisions is no doubt a great thing. If you write or edit often, however, after a while the revisions can start to build 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 200 posts on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your database could be storing up to 4,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 4,000 post revisions, the total database space wasted is about 400MB.

Fortunately, there are a few great plugins that can help you control and manage your revisions and reduce the size of your WordPress database. Here are a few:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin For WordPress)

This plugin deletes redundant post revisions from your database as well as other revision-related content like tags, meta information, relationships, and more.

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

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

(Better Delete Revision – Settings)

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

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

A list of revisions stored in the database will display on the screen …

(List of revisions – Better Delete Revision)

Click on the button below the list to delete the items from your database, or exit the page with your post revisions undeleted …

(Remove posts revisions – Better Delete Revision)

The redundant data will be removed from your database …

(List of revisions removed)

As WordPress automatically stores post revisions, the process will automatically begin again. After some time has passed, we recommend repeating this process to keep your database as lean as possible …

(Revisions automatically start being saved again!)

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

(Better Delete Revision – Keep your WP database optimized)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if the database needs to be optimized and provides a one-click table optimization feature that does not require you to log into your hosting panel or use technical database management software …

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

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions)

This plugin is similar to the one described above. It not only lets you prune redundant post and page revisions (with the option of keeping an ‘x’-amount of your most recent revisions) and checks if the database needs cleaning and optimization, it also lets you do the following maintenance tasks:

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

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

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

WP-Optimize

(WP-Optimize WP Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as removing redundant revisions of pages and posts and checking if your WordPress database needs to be cleaned and optimized, this plugin also lets you do the following:

• Enable/Disable comments for all published posts
• Remove stale metadata from comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Remove all transient options
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to retain data from selected number of weeks when cleaning up
• Option to add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization scheduling
• See database table statistics
• E-mail notifications on scheduled database cleanups
• Highlights dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize – Settings Page)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize WP Plugin

WP-Sweep

(WP-Sweep WordPress Plugin)

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

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

(WP Sweep – WordPress Plugin Settings Screen)

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

(Add Plugin – 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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