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 Using Plugins

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

(Post Editor section – The Revisions box)

For most users, having features like autosave and automatic revisions is something that contributes to making work more efficient. If you write a lot of content, however, the number of revisions can start to build up. This can significantly increase the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to 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 and each post has 15 revisions you could be storing around 3,000 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 3,000 post revisions, the total database space wasted is about 300MB.

Fortunately, there are several free WordPress plugins to help you control and 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)

Better Delete Revision removes redundant revisions of posts from your database as well as other revision-related content like tags, meta data, 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 admin section 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 how many redundant post revisions you can delete from the database …

(Better Delete Revision – Check Revision Posts)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions related to each post, the plugin display a table of post revisions stored in your database …

(Posts revisions list)

Click on the button below the list to delete the items from your database, or choose ‘No, I prefer to keep them!’ to exit the page with your post revisions undeleted …

(Better Delete Revision – Clear posts revisions list)

The unnecessary revisions will be deleted from your WordPress database …

(Post revisions cleared)

After a period of time and depending on the amount of content you have published on your site and their related post revisions, we recommend running the tool again to keep your database as lean as possible, since WordPress will automatically begin storing your new revisions again (unless you specifically turn the feature off) …

(Post revisions automatically start again!)

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

(Optimize your database)

The plugin checks to see if your database needs optimization and provides a one-click WP database optimization function without requiring you to log into your hosting panel or mess with complicated software …

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

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin For WordPress)

OptimizeDatabase not only lets you delete redundant page and post revisions (it also lets you keep an ’x’ amount of your most recent revisions) and checks if the database tables need to be cleaned and optimized, it also lets you perform the following maintenance tasks:

• Delete trashed posts, comments, and pages
• Delete unused tags
• Delete ’pingbacks’ and ‘trackbacks’
• Exclude specific pages/posts and tables from cleaning and optimization
• Create a log file of the optimizations
• And more!

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

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

WP-Optimize

(WP Optimize)

In addition to performing tasks such as deleting unnecessary post and page revisions and performing cleaning and optimization routines, WP Optimize also lets you do the following maintenance tasks:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for published posts
• Remove spam comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Removal of all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to keep data from selected number of weeks when cleaning up
• Option to add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization scheduling
• View database table statistics (e.g. how much space can be optimized
• E-mail notifications after automatic cleanup
• Marks dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize WP Plugin – Settings Screen)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize

WP-Sweep

(WP Sweep Plugin)

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

• Auto drafts
• Spammed comments
• Orphan term relationships
• Duplicated post meta
• Unused terms
• And more!

(WP-Sweep WP Plugin – Settings)

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

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

(Add New – 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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