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.

Revision Management Using Plugins

As soon as you edit and update posts and pages, WordPress begins to store revisions for the content in its database. These are displayed in a Revisions section below the post or page …

(The revisions box)

For most users, having features like autosave and revisions is no doubt a timesaver. If you write often, however, the revisions can start to build up. This can significantly grow 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 published on your site and each post has an average of 15 revisions your WordPress database could be storing around 3,000 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 3,000 revisions, the total space wasted is about 300MB.

Fortunately, there are a few great WordPress plugins available to help you control your revisions and reduce the size of your database. Here are some of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin For WordPress)

This plugin removes redundant revisions of posts from your database and other revision-related content like relationships, tags, meta data, and more.

After installing and activating the plugin, you can use it to optimize your database without having to log into your server.

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

(Better Delete Revision – Settings Menu)

This brings you to the Better Delete Revision Manager screen. Click the ‘Check Revision Posts’ button to calculate how many redundant post revisions can be removed from your database …

(Better Delete Revision – Check Revision Posts)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions associated with each post entry, the plugin returns a table of revisions stored in the WordPress database …

(Posts revisions)

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

(Remove list of revisions – Better Delete Revision)

The redundant items will be deleted from the WP database …

(List of post revisions removed)

After some time has passed and depending on the amount of content you have published on your site, 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 have turned the feature off) …

(WordPress automatically begins saving post revisions again!)

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

(Keep your WP database optimized)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if your database needs optimization and lets you run an easy one-click table optimization routine without requiring you to log into your server panel or mess with complicated database management tools …

(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 For WordPress)

The Optimize Database plugin not only lets you delete redundant post and page revisions (it also lets you keep a specific number of your most recent revisions) and lets you perform an easy one-click optimization routine, it also lets you do maintenance tasks like:

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

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

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

WP-Optimize

(WP-Optimize – WordPress Plugin)

In addition to cleaning unnecessary revisions of pages and posts and checking if the database tables need to be cleaned and optimized, WP Optimize also lets you do the following maintenance tasks:

• Enable/Disable comments for all published posts
• Removal of stale unapproved comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site from anywhere)
• Remove transient options
• Clear out post trash
• Ability to retain selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly schedules of optimization
• View database table statistics
• Receive email notifications after scheduled cleanup
• Marks dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize Plugin – Settings)

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

WP Sweep

(WP-Sweep Plugin)

In addition to optimizing your database tables and deleting unnecessary revisions, WP-Sweep also cleans up:

• Auto drafts
• Deleted comments
• Orphaned user meta
• Duplicated user meta
• Unused terms
• And more!

(WP-Sweep – WordPress Plugin Settings Panel)

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

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 “Revisions“, “Database Optimize“, etc …

(WordPress Plugins Menu – Add 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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