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 Revisions – WordPress Plugins

As soon as you edit and update a post or page, WordPress begins to store new revisions for your content in its database. These show up in a Revisions list at the bottom of your post or page …

(Post revisions list – Post Editor screen)

For most WordPress users, having access to effective workflow functions like autosave and revisions is something that helps make work more productive. If you write a lot of content, however, over time 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.

(As you write more posts on your site, your WordPress database could be storing lots of unnecessary data)

For example, if you have 200 posts published on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your database could be storing around 4,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 4,000 revisions, the total space wasted is about 400MB.

The good news is that there are several free plugins for WordPress available to help you manage your revisions and reduce the size of your WordPress database. Let’s take a look at a few:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision WordPress Plugin)

Better Delete Revision removes redundant post revisions from your database and database content belonging to each revision like meta information, tags, relationships, and more.

After installing and activating the plugin, the plugin can optimize your database.

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

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Settings)

This brings you to the Better Delete Revision Manager panel. Click ’Check Revision Posts’ to calculate how many redundant post revisions can be safely deleted from your WordPress database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

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

(List of post revisions – Better Delete Revision Manager)

Click on the button below the list to remove all items from the WP database …

(Better Delete Revision – Remove posts revisions list)

The redundant items will be cleared from the WP database …

(Revisions removed – Better Delete Revision)

After a while, therefore, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WP database as light as possible, since WordPress automatically begins saving all new revisions again (unless you specifically turn the feature off) …

(WordPress will automatically begin storing your revisions again!)

You can also use the plugin to keep your WP database optimized …

(Optimize your site’s database)

The plugin checks to see if the WP database needs to be optimized and runs a one-click table optimization routine without requiring you to log into your hosting control panel or mess with complicated database management applications …

(Better Delete Revision checks if the database needs optimization)

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin)

This plugin is similar to the one described above. It not only lets you delete unnecessary post and page revisions (it also lets you keep an ’x’ amount of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click table cleaning and optimization maintenance routine, it also lets you perform the following maintenance tasks:

• Delete trashed pages, comments, and posts
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ‘expired transients’
• 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)

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

WP-Optimize

(WP-Optimize Plugin)

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

• Enable/Disable comments for all published posts
• Removal of akismet metadata from comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site on the go)
• Removal of all transient options
• Clear out post trash
• Ability to keep selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Option to add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization scheduling
• See database table statistics (e.g. how much space has been cleared
• Receive email notifications on scheduled cleanups
• Displays dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize – WordPress Plugin Settings Page)

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

WP Sweep

(WP Sweep – WordPress Plugin)

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

• Auto drafts
• Unapproved comments
• Orphan post meta
• Duplicated user meta
• Transient options
• 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

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 type in keywords like “Revisions“, “Optimize Database“, etc …

(Add New Plugins – 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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