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 WordPress Plugins

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

(Post Editor section – The WordPress post revisions list)

Autosave and post revisions are no doubt features that help create a more productive workflow. If you write or edit a lot of content, however, after a while the number of revisions can start to build up. This can significantly increase the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to also be able to manage your revisions.

(As post revisions accumulate, your WordPress database could be storing lots of unnecessary data)

For example, if there are 200 posts published on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your WordPress database could be storing up to 4,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 4,000 post revisions, the total database space wasted is about 400MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Plugin)

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

After the plugin has been installed and activated, you can perform optimizations on your database.

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

(Better Delete Revision – WP 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 remove from your database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

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

(Better Delete Revision – List of post revisions)

Click on ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ to remove all list items from your WP database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Clear list of revisions)

The unnecessary post information will be cleared from your WordPress database …

(Revisions list cleared – Better Delete Revision)

As WordPress automatically saves your new post revisions, the process will automatically start again. After a period of time and depending on the amount of content you have published on your site and their related post revisions, we recommend running the tool again to keep your database as lean as possible …

(Revisions automatically start being stored again!)

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

(Optimize the site’s database)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if your WordPress database tables need optimization and runs a one-click WP database optimization routine without requiring you to log into your hosting panel or mess with complicated database management applications …

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

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision WP Plugin

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin)

OptimizeDatabase not only lets you prune redundant revisions of pages and posts (it also lets you keep a specific number of your most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click database optimization routine, it also lets you do the following:

• Delete trashed comments, pages, and posts
• Delete unused tags
• Delete ‘expired transients’
• Exclude certain pages/posts and tables from cleaning and optimization
• Create a log file of the optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – Settings Panel)

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

WP Optimize

(WP-Optimize – WordPress Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as cleaning redundant post and page revisions and performing WP database table cleaning and optimization routines, WP Optimize also lets you do the following maintenance tasks:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Removal of unapproved comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site from anywhere)
• Remove all transient options
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to retain 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 (e.g. how much space can be optimized
• E-mail notifications on automatic cleanups
• Highlights dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize Plugin – Settings Screen)

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

WP Sweep

(WP Sweep Plugin For WordPress)

WP-Sweep lets you clean up orphaned, unused, and duplicated data in your database, including post revisions. This plugin cleans up:

• Auto drafts
• Deleted comments
• Orphan user meta
• Duplicated post meta
• Transient options
• And more!

(WPSweep WP Plugin – Settings Page)

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

To 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 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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