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 Plugins

As soon as you edit and save a post/page, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. These are displayed in a Revisions section below your page editor …

(View the revisions box – Post Editor screen)

For most users, having autosave and revisions is a timesaver. If you write or edit extensively, however, the revisions can start to build up. This can significantly bloat 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 200 posts published on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your WordPress database could be storing an extra 2,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 2,000 post revisions, the total space wasted is about 200MB.

The good news is that there are several plugins for WordPress that can help you control and manage your revisions and reduce the size of your WordPress database. Here are a few:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin)

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

After installing and activating the plugin, Better Delete Revision can optimize your WordPress database.

In the main menu of your admin area, click on Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Better Delete Revision – Settings Menu)

This brings you to the Better Delete Revision Manager area. Click the ‘Check Revision Posts’ button to calculate the number of redundant post revisions can be removed from the database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision)

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

(List of revisions)

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

(Better Delete Revision – Delete list of post revisions)

The redundant data will be removed from the database …

(Revisions list deleted)

As WordPress automatically stores your revisions, the process will automatically begin again (unless you have turned the feature off). After a while, therefore, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WP database as light as possible …

(WordPress will automatically begin storing all post revisions again!)

You can also use Better Delete Revisions to optimize the WordPress database …

(Optimize your database)

The plugin checks to see if your database tables need optimization and provides a one-click WordPress database table optimization routine that does not require you to log into your hosting control panel …

(Better Delete Revision checks if the WP database needs to be optimized)

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin For WordPress)

OptimizeDatabase not only lets you prune unnecessary revisions of posts and pages (it also lets you keep a specific number of the most recent revisions) and checks if the WP database needs to be cleaned and optimized, it also lets you perform the following optional maintenance tasks:

• Delete trashed comments, pages, and posts
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ‘expired transients’
• Exclude certain posts/pages and tables from cleaning and optimization
• Automatically schedule optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – Settings)

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

WP-Optimize

(WP Optimize – WordPress Plugin)

In addition to removing unnecessary revisions of posts and pages and performing WordPress database table optimization routines, WP Optimize also lets you do database maintenance tasks such as:

• Enable/Disable comments for published posts
• Remove trashed comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Removal of all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clear out the post trash
• Ability to retain data from selected number of weeks when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization scheduling
• View database table statistics (e.g. how much space has been cleared
• Receive email notifications after automatic database cleanups
• Highlights potentially dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize WordPress Plugin

WP Sweep

(WP-Sweep Plugin For WordPress)

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

• Auto drafts
• Unapproved comments
• Orphan user meta
• Duplicated comment meta
• Transient options
• And more!

(WPSweep – 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

To view 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“, “Optimize Database“, etc …

(Add New Plugin – WordPress 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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