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 save your pages and posts, WordPress begins to store new revisions in its database. These show up in a Revisions list below the content editor …

(Post Editor section – Viewing the WordPress revisions box)

For most users, having access to effective workflow features like autosave and automatic revisions is very useful. If you write and edit often, 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 100 posts on your site and each post has an average of 20 revisions you could be storing an extra 2,000 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 2,000 post revisions, the total space wasted is about 200MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision WP Plugin)

This plugin removes redundant post revisions from your database and other database content related to each revision such as meta data, tags, relationships, and more.

After installing and activating the plugin, the plugin can perform optimizations on your WP database.

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

(WP Settings – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Better Delete Revision – Check Revision Posts)

A list of post revisions stored in your WordPress database will be returned on the screen …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – List of post revisions)

Click on ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ below the list to remove all items from the database, or exit the plugin settings screen with all post revisions undeleted …

(Delete list of revisions – Better Delete Revision Manager)

The unnecessary revisions will be cleared from the database …

(Better Delete Revision – Revisions list deleted)

As WordPress automatically saves your new revisions, the process will automatically start again. After a period of time, therefore, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WP database as lean as possible …

(WordPress automatically begins saving all revisions again!)

Like the other plugins listed further below, you can also use Better Delete Revisions to keep the site’s database optimized …

(Keep your WordPress database optimized)

The plugin checks to see if the database needs to be optimized and provides a one-click table optimization routine that does not require you to log into your hosting control panel or mess with technical database management applications …

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

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision Plugin

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions)

OptimizeDatabase not only lets you delete redundant revisions of pages and posts (it also lets you keep an ’x’ amount of your most recent revisions) and checks if the WordPress database needs to be cleaned and optimized, it also lets you do database maintenance tasks like:

• Delete trashed comments, pages, and posts
• Delete unused tags
• Delete ’pingbacks’ and ‘trackbacks’
• Exclude certain tables and/or specific posts/pages from cleaning and optimization
• Automatically schedule optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin – Settings Screen)

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

WP-Optimize

(WP Optimize Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as removing redundant revisions of pages and posts and checking if your WP database tables need to be cleaned and optimized, this plugin also lets you do database maintenance tasks like:

• Enable/Disable comments for all published posts
• Removal of stale unapproved comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Remove all transient options
• Clear out post trash
• Ability to keep selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly schedules of optimization
• View database table statistics
• Receive email notifications on automatic database cleanups
• Displays potentially dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize – WordPress 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, this plugin also cleans up:

• Auto drafts
• Deleted comments
• Orphaned term relationships
• Duplicated post meta
• Unused terms
• And more!

(WP-Sweep – WordPress Plugin Settings)

For more details, go here: WP-Sweep Plugin For WordPress

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 search for keywords like “Revisions“, “Database Optimize“, etc …

(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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