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 WordPress Plugins

As soon as you save a post/page, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. These are displayed in a Revisions section at the bottom of your post or page …

(WordPress post revisions list – Post Editor section)

Having access to effective workflow features like autosave and automatic revisions is undoubtedly a great thing. If you write extensively, however, after a while the number of revisions can start building up. This can significantly increase 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 with an average of 10 revisions each you could be storing an extra 1,500 copies of old data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 1,500 revisions of that post, the total database space wasted is about 150MB.

Fortunately, there are a number of plugins available that can help you manage your revisions and reduce the size of your database. Here are some of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin For WordPress)

Better Delete Revision deletes redundant post revisions from your database and other revision-related content such as meta information, tags, relationships, and more.

After the plugin has been installed and activated, you can perform optimizations on your WP database without having to log into your server.

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

(Settings – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Check Revision Posts)

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

(List of post revisions)

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

(Delete posts revisions)

The redundant post revisions will be cleared from your WordPress database …

(Post revisions removed – Better Delete Revision Manager)

After a while, we recommend repeating this process to keep your WordPress database as lean as possible, since WordPress will automatically begin storing your post revisions again (unless you have chosen to turn the feature off) …

(Post revisions automatically start being stored again!)

Like the other plugins described in this section, you can also use Better Delete Revisions to keep the site’s database optimized …

(Optimize the database)

The plugin checks to see if your database tables need to be optimized and provides a one-click WP database table optimization maintenance routine without requiring you to log into your hosting panel …

(Better Delete Revision checks if the WP 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 WordPress Plugin)

This plugin is similar to the one described above. It not only lets you delete redundant revisions of posts and pages (it also lets you keep an ‘x’-amount of your most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click table optimization maintenance routine, it also lets you do the following optional maintenance tasks:

• Delete trashed comments, posts, 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

WP Optimize

(WP Optimize – WordPress Plugin)

In addition to cleaning unnecessary revisions of posts and pages and checking if your database needs optimization, WP Optimize also lets you perform maintenance tasks like:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for published posts
• Remove unapproved comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Removal of all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to retain data from selected number of weeks when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization schedules
• Display database table statistics (e.g. how much space can be optimized
• Receive email notifications after automatic cleanup
• Highlights dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize – Settings Panel)

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

WP Sweep

(WP Sweep Plugin For WordPress)

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

• Auto drafts
• Deleted comments
• Orphaned term meta
• Duplicated comment meta
• Unused terms
• And more!

(WP Sweep WP Plugin – Settings Page)

For more details, go here: WP-Sweep 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 “Post Revisions“, “Optimize Database“, etc …

(Add New 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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