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 save your pages and posts, WordPress begins to store new revisions of your content in its database. These are displayed in a Revisions box at the bottom of the page editor …

(WordPress post revisions box)

Autosave and post revisions are no doubt functions that help make work more efficient. If you write and edit extensively, however, after a while the revisions can start to build 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 there are 10 posts published on your site and each post has an average of 5 revisions your database could be storing an extra 500 copies of unnecessary data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 500 post revisions, the total space wasted is about 50MB.

The good news is that there are various free plugins available to help you control and manage your revisions and reduce the size of your WordPress database. Here are a few of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin)

This plugin deletes redundant post revisions from your WordPress database and database content belonging to each revision like tags, meta information, relationships, and more.

After installing and activating the plugin, the plugin can optimize your database.

In the Dashboard menu, click on Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Settings Menu)

This brings you to the Better Delete Revision Manager area. Click ’Check Revision Posts’ to calculate the number of redundant post revisions you can safely delete from your WordPress database …

(Better Delete Revision – Check Revision Posts)

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

(List of post revisions)

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

(Delete posts revisions)

The unnecessary data will be removed from the database …

(Better Delete Revision – List of revisions cleared)

As WordPress automatically saves post revisions, the process will automatically begin again. After a while, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WP database as lean as possible …

(WordPress will automatically begin saving all new revisions again!)

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

(Keep your site’s database optimized)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if the WordPress database tables need to be optimized and provides a one-click optimization function that does not require you to log into your server panel or mess with complicated tools …

(Better Delete Revision lets you perform a 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 – WordPress Plugin)

OptimizeDatabase not only lets you delete redundant post and page revisions (it also lets you keep a specific number of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click optimization routine, it also lets you perform the following optional maintenance tasks:

• Delete trashed posts, pages, 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 Plugin – Settings)

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

WP Optimize

(WP-Optimize Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as cleaning unnecessary revisions of posts and pages and checking if your WP database needs optimization, WP Optimize also lets you do database maintenance tasks like:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Removal of stale metadata from comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Remove trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clear out the 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 optimization schedules
• View database table statistics (e.g. how much space can be optimized
• Receive email notifications after automatic database cleanup
• Displays dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize Plugin For WordPress – Settings Screen)

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

WP Sweep

(WP-Sweep – WordPress Plugin)

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

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

(WP Sweep Plugin For WordPress – 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

To view more plugins that can help you manage post revisions and optimize your database, go to Plugins > Add New and type in keywords like “Manage Post Revisions“, “Optimize Database“, etc …

(Add New Plugins – 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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