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 update posts and pages, WordPress begins to store new revisions in its database. These appear in a Revisions list at the bottom of your page or post …

(Post Editor screen – Viewing the WordPress revisions box)

For most users, having functions like autosave and automatic revisions is undoubtedly a great thing. If you write and edit extensively, however, after a while the revisions can start building up. This can significantly increase 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 published on your site and each post has an average of 15 revisions your WordPress database could be storing an extra 3,000 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 3,000 revisions of that post, the total space wasted is about 300MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision WordPress Plugin)

This plugin deletes redundant post revisions from your database as well as other revision-related content such as relationships, meta data, tags, and more.

After installing and activating the plugin, Better Delete Revision can optimize your WP database.

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

(Better Delete Revision – WP Settings Menu)

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

(Better Delete Revision – Check Revision Posts)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions belonging to each post entry, the plugin will then calculate and display a table of post revisions stored in the database …

(Posts revisions)

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

(Clear posts revisions list)

The redundant data will be removed from the database …

(Revisions list deleted – Better Delete Revision Manager)

As WordPress automatically stores your post revisions, the process will automatically begin again (unless you have turned the feature off). After a period of time, we recommend repeating this process to keep your WP database as light as possible …

(Post revisions automatically start again!)

Like the other plugins listed in this section, you can also use the plugin to keep the database optimized …

(Keep the database optimized)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if the database needs optimization and provides a one-click optimization routine without requiring you to log into your server control panel …

(Better Delete Revision lets you perform an easy one-click WordPress database optimization 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 unnecessary revisions of pages and posts (it also lets you keep a specific number of your most recent revisions) and checks if your database tables need to be cleaned and optimized, it also lets you perform database maintenance tasks such as:

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

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

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

WP-Optimize

(WP Optimize WP Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as cleaning unnecessary revisions of posts and pages and performing cleaning and optimization maintenance, this plugin also lets you perform the following maintenance tasks:

• Enable/Disable comments for published posts
• Remove akismet metadata from comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site on the go)
• Remove 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
• Display database table statistics
• Receive email notifications after automatic cleanups
• Marks potentially dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize WordPress Plugin – Settings)

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

WP Sweep

(WP Sweep Plugin)

In addition to optimizing your database tables and deleting unnecessary revisions, this plugin also cleans up:

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

(WP Sweep – 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“, “Database Optimize“, 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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