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.

Content Revision Management Using Plugins

As soon as you create, edit, and update posts and pages, WordPress begins to store new revisions for your content in its database. These show up in a Revisions box below the page editor …

(Revisions list)

Autosave and post revisions are no doubt functions that help make work more efficient. If you write a lot of content, however, the revisions can start to build up. This can significantly increase 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 you have 50 posts on your site and each post has an average of 20 revisions your WordPress database could be storing up to 1,000 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 1,000 post revisions, the total database space wasted is about 100MB.

Fortunately, there are a few great plugins for WordPress available to help you control your revisions and reduce the size of your database. Let’s take a look at some of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin)

Better Delete Revision removes redundant revisions of posts from your database and other database content associated with each revision such as relationships, meta information, tags, and more.

After installing and activating the plugin, Better Delete Revision can perform optimizations on your WordPress database.

Log into your WordPress admin section, then go to the navigation menu and choose select 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 you can safely remove from your database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision)

A table of revisions stored in the WordPress database will be returned on the screen …

(Posts revisions list)

Click on the ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ button below the list to clear all items from your WP database, or select ‘No, I prefer to keep them!’ to exit the tool with your post revisions undeleted …

(Remove list of revisions – Better Delete Revision Manager)

The redundant revisions will be removed from your WP database …

(Post revisions list deleted)

As WordPress automatically stores all post revisions, the process will automatically begin again (unless you specifically turn the feature off). After a while, therefore, we recommend repeating this process to keep your WordPress database as lean as possible …

(WordPress will automatically begin saving your revisions again!)

You can also use Better Delete Revisions to optimize your site’s database …

(Optimize your database)

The plugin checks to see if your WP database needs optimization and performs an easy one-click optimization maintenance routine without the need to log into your server panel or use technical database management applications …

(Better Delete Revision checks if the database tables need optimization)

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision Plugin

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions)

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

• Delete trashed posts, pages, and comments
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ’orphan postmeta items’
• Exclude certain tables or specific pages/posts from cleaning and optimization
• Create a log file of the optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – WordPress Plugin Settings)

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

WP-Optimize

(WP-Optimize Plugin)

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

• Enable/Disable comments for published posts
• Remove akismet metadata from comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site on the go)
• Removal of all 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 schedules of optimization
• See database table statistics
• Receive email notifications after scheduled database cleanup
• Displays potentially dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize WordPress Plugin – Settings Panel)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize

WP-Sweep

(WP Sweep Plugin For WordPress)

WP Sweep allows you to clean up duplicated, unused, and orphaned data in the WP database, including post revisions. This plugin cleans up:

• Auto drafts
• Spammed comments
• Orphan term meta
• Duplicated user meta
• Unused terms
• And more!

(WP Sweep – WordPress 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

In addition to the above plugins, you can view more plugins that can help you manage post revisions and optimize your WordPress database, go to Plugins > Add New and type in keywords like “Post Revisions“, “Optimize“, etc …

(Add New Plugin – Plugins Menu)

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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