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 Post Revisions – WordPress Plugins

As soon as you save posts and pages, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. These are displayed in a Revisions box below the content editor …

(WordPress post revisions list)

Autosave and revisions are no doubt functions that help make work more efficient. If you write a lot of content, however, after a while the number of revisions can start building up. This can significantly grow the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important 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 WordPress database could be storing up to 3,000 copies of old data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 3,000 post revisions, the total database space wasted is about 300MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Plugin)

Better Delete Revision deletes redundant post revisions from your WordPress database as well as database content associated with each revision like tags, meta information, relationships, and more.

After the plugin has been installed and activated, the plugin can perform optimizations on your database.

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

(Settings – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision)

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

(List of revisions)

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

(Better Delete Revision – Remove posts revisions)

The redundant post revisions will be removed from the database …

(List of post revisions cleared – Better Delete Revision Manager)

As WordPress automatically saves your new post revisions, the process will automatically begin again. After a period of time, we recommend running the tool again to keep your database as lean as possible …

(Post revisions automatically start again!)

You can also use Better Delete Revisions to keep the site’s database optimized …

(Better Delete Revision – Optimize your database)

The plugin checks to see if your database tables need to be optimized and runs an easy one-click WordPress database optimization routine without requiring you to log into your hosting panel or mess with technical database management software …

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

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin For WordPress)

The Optimize Database plugin not only lets you prune unnecessary revisions of pages and posts (it also lets you keep an ’x’ amount of the most recent revisions) and checks if the WordPress database needs optimization, it also lets you perform the following optional tasks:

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – Settings)

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

WP Optimize

(WP Optimize Plugin)

In addition to cleaning redundant page and post revisions and performing table optimization routines, WP Optimize also lets you do the following:

• Enable/Disable comments for all published posts
• Removal of stale unapproved comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Remove trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clear out post trash
• Ability to keep 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
• E-mail notifications on scheduled cleanups
• Highlights potentially dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize – Settings Screen)

For more details, go here: WP-Optimize

WP Sweep

(WP-Sweep WordPress Plugin)

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

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

(WPSweep WordPress Plugin – Settings Panel)

For more details, go here: WP-Sweep

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 search for keywords like “Revisions“, “Optimize Database“, etc …

(WordPress Plugins Menu – Add New Plugins)

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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