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 save your pages/posts, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. You can see these displayed in a Revisions box below your post editor …

(WordPress post revisions list)

Autosave and post revisions are no doubt functions that help make work more efficient. If you write or edit extensively, however, the revisions can start building up. This can significantly grow 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 published on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your database could be storing up to 2,000 copies of old data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 2,000 post revisions, the total database space wasted is about 200MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin For WordPress)

Better Delete Revision deletes redundant revisions of posts from your WordPress database as well as other database content related to each revision like tags, meta data, relationships, and more.

After installing and activating the plugin, the plugin can perform optimizations on your database.

Go to the administration section and choose Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Settings)

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 your database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions belonging to each post, the plugin displays a list of revisions stored in the database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Posts revisions)

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

(Better Delete Revision – Remove posts revisions)

The redundant data will be cleared from the database …

(Revisions list cleared – Better Delete Revision Manager)

After some time has passed and depending on the amount of content you have published on your website, therefore, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WordPress database as light as possible, since WordPress will automatically begin to save your post revisions again (unless you have turned the feature off) …

(Post revisions automatically start being saved again!)

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

(Optimize your database)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if your WordPress database needs optimization and performs an easy one-click database table optimization routine without the need to log into your hosting control panel …

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

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

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 remove redundant page and post revisions (it also lets you keep a specific number of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click cleaning and optimization routine, it also lets you perform the following:

• Delete trashed comments, pages, and posts
• Delete unused tags
• Delete ’pingbacks’ and ‘trackbacks’
• Exclude selected tables and/or specific posts/pages from cleaning and optimization
• Automatically schedule optimizations
• And more!

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

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 performing cleaning and optimization maintenance, WP Optimize also lets you perform maintenance tasks such as:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Removal of stale unapproved comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Remove all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clear out the post trash
• 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 schedules of optimization
• Display database table statistics
• E-mail notifications after automatic database cleanup
• Marks potentially dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize Plugin – Settings Panel)

For more details, go here: WP-Optimize Plugin

WP Sweep

(WP Sweep 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 comment meta
• Unused terms
• And more!

(WP-Sweep 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

For more plugins that can help you manage post revisions and optimize your WP database, go to Plugins > Add New and search for keywords like “Post Revisions“, “Optimize Database“, etc …

(Plugins Menu – Add Plugin)

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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