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 edit and update your posts and pages, WordPress begins to store new revisions in its database. These appear in a Revisions list at the bottom of the page editor …

(View the revisions box – Post Editor section)

Having autosave and revisions is no doubt very useful. If you write and edit a lot of content, however, over time the number of revisions can start to build up. This can significantly bloat the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to manage your revisions.

(As post revisions accumulate, your database could be storing lots of unnecessary data)

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

The good news is that there are a few great WordPress plugins available that can help you control and manage your revisions and reduce the size of your database. Here are some of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin)

This plugin removes redundant post revisions from your WordPress database as well as database content belonging to each revision such as meta information, tags, relationships, and more.

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

In your main menu section of your WordPress admin area, select Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(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 removed from the WordPress database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions belonging to each post, the plugin return a table of post revisions stored in the WP database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – List of post revisions)

Click on the ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ button below the list to delete the items from your WP database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Remove posts revisions list)

The redundant items will be deleted from your database …

(Revisions cleared)

After a period of time and depending on the amount of content you have published on your site, we recommend repeating this process to keep your WordPress database as lean as possible, since WordPress automatically begins saving your new revisions again …

(Revisions automatically start being saved again!)

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

(Keep the database optimized)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if your WordPress database tables need to be optimized and provides an easy one-click optimization maintenance routine without the need to log into your hosting panel or mess with complicated software …

(Better Delete Revision checks if the WordPress database needs to be optimized)

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

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 unnecessary page and post revisions (with the added option to keep a specific number of the most recent revisions) and checks if your WordPress database needs optimization, it also lets you perform the following optional tasks:

• Delete trashed pages, comments, and posts
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ’orphan postmeta items’
• Exclude selected tables or even specific pages/posts from cleaning and optimization
• Create a log file of the optimizations
• And more!

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

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

WP Optimize

(WP-Optimize – WordPress Plugin)

In addition to cleaning redundant revisions of posts and pages and checking if the database needs to be optimized, this plugin also lets you do maintenance tasks such as:

• Enable/Disable comments for all published posts
• Remove spam comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Remove all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clear out the post trash
• Ability to retain selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Option to add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly schedules of optimization
• View database table statistics
• E-mail notifications after scheduled cleanups
• Marks dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP-Optimize

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
• Deleted comments
• Orphan comment meta
• Duplicated user meta
• Transient options
• And more!

(WPSweep 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

In addition to the above plugins, you can view more plugins that can help you manage post revisions and optimize your database, go to Plugins > Add New and search for keywords like “Post Revisions“, “Optimize“, etc …

(Add Plugin – WordPress 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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