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 edit and save pages and posts, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. You can see these displayed in a Revisions list below the post editor …

(Post Editor screen – The Revisions box)

Having access to content workflow features like autosave and revisions is very useful. If you write or edit a lot of content, however, the number of revisions can start to build 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 you have 200 posts on your site with an average of 10 revisions each you could be storing up to 3,000 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 3,000 revisions, the total space wasted is about 300MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin For WordPress)

Better Delete Revision removes redundant post revisions from your database and other revision-related content such as relationships, meta information, tags, and more.

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

In the WP Dashboard menu, choose Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Better Delete Revision – Settings Menu)

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

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision)

A list of post revisions stored in your database will display on the screen …

(List of post revisions)

Click on the button below the list to remove all items from your database …

(Clear posts revisions list)

The unnecessary revisions will be removed from your WordPress database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – List of revisions cleared)

As WordPress automatically stores your revisions, the process will automatically start again. After a period of time and depending on the number of posts you have published on your website and their related post revisions, therefore, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WordPress database as light as possible …

(Revisions automatically start again!)

You can also use this plugin to optimize the site’s database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Optimize the site’s database)

The plugin checks to see if your database tables need to be optimized and provides a one-click table optimization routine without the need to log into your hosting panel …

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

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – WordPress Plugin)

This plugin is similar to the one described above. It not only lets you prune redundant revisions of posts and pages (it also lets you keep an ’x’ amount of your most recent revisions) and lets you perform an easy one-click table optimization routine, it also lets you perform the following maintenance tasks:

• Delete trashed pages, posts, and comments
• Delete unused tags
• Delete ’orphan postmeta items’
• Exclude selected tables or specific posts/pages 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 performing tasks such as removing unnecessary post and page revisions and checking if the WordPress database tables need optimization, WP Optimize also lets you perform maintenance tasks such as:

• Enable/Disable comments for all published posts
• Removal of stale unapproved comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Removal of all transient options
• Clear out the post trash
• Ability to retain selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Option to add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization scheduling
• See database table statistics (e.g. how much space has been cleared
• Receive email notifications after automatic database cleanups
• Displays potentially dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize Plugin – Settings Screen)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize – WordPress 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 user meta
• Duplicated comment meta
• Transient options
• And more!

(WP-Sweep Plugin – Settings)

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 WP database, go to Plugins > Add New and type in 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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