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 edit and update pages and posts, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. These are displayed in a Revisions box at the bottom of the post editor …

(Post Editor section – View the revisions box)

Autosave and post revisions are no doubt features that help create a more productive workflow. If you write and edit a lot of content, however, over time the number of 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.

(Your WordPress database could be storing lots of unnecessary data)

For example, if you have 200 posts published on your site and each post has 20 revisions your database could be storing up to 4,000 copies of old data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 4,000 revisions, the total space wasted is about 400MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision WP Plugin)

This plugin deletes redundant revisions of posts from your WordPress database as well as other revision-related content such as tags, meta data, relationships, and more.

After the plugin has been installed and activated, you can use the Better Delete Revision Manager to perform optimizations on your database without having to log into your server.

Go to the Dashboard and select Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(WP Settings – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Better Delete Revision – Posts revisions list)

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

(Clear list of post revisions)

The unnecessary post information will be deleted from the database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Post revisions removed)

After a while, therefore, we recommend repeating this process to keep your WordPress database as light as possible, since WordPress will automatically begin to store post revisions again …

(Revisions automatically start being stored again!)

Like the other plugins described in this section, you can also use the plugin to keep your database optimized …

(Optimize your site’s database)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if your WP database tables need optimization and provides an easy one-click table optimization function that does not require you to log into your hosting panel or mess with complicated software …

(Better Delete Revision lets you perform a one-click table optimization maintenance routine)

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision Plugin

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin)

This plugin is similar to the one described above. It not only lets you prune unnecessary post and page revisions (with the added option of keeping a specific number of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click table cleaning and optimization routine, it also lets you do database maintenance tasks such as:

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin For WordPress – Settings)

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

WP-Optimize

(WP-Optimize)

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

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Remove akismet metadata from comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site anywhere, anytime)
• Removal of all transient options
• Clear out post trash
• Ability to retain selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Option to add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization schedules
• Display database table statistics (e.g. how much space has been cleared
• Receive email notifications on scheduled database cleanup
• Marks dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize – WordPress Plugin Settings Panel)

For more details, go here: WP-Optimize Plugin

WP Sweep

(WP-Sweep Plugin For WordPress)

In addition to optimizing your database tables and deleting unnecessary post revisions, this plugin also cleans up:

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

(WP Sweep – Settings)

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

For more plugins that can help you manage post revisions and optimize your database, go to Plugins > Add New and search for keywords like “Manage Post Revisions“, “Optimize“, etc …

(Add New – 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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