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.

Managing Content Revisions Using Plugins

As soon as you edit and update your posts and pages, WordPress begins to store revisions for your content in its database. These are displayed in a Revisions section at the bottom of the page or post …

(Post Editor section – Viewing the revisions box)

For most WordPress users, having autosave and revisions is no doubt a timesaver. If you write extensively, however, the number of revisions can start building up. This can significantly increase the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to manage your revisions.

(Your database could be storing lots of unnecessary data)

For example, if there are 10 posts published on your site with an average of 5 revisions each your WordPress database could be storing an extra 500 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 500 revisions, the total space wasted is about 50MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Plugin)

Better Delete Revision deletes redundant revisions of posts from your database as well as other revision-related content like relationships, meta data, tags, and more.

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

Log into your WordPress site, then go to your navigation menu and select click on Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Settings Menu – 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 delete from your WP database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions stored with each post, the plugin will then calculate and display a list of post revisions stored in the database …

(List of post revisions – Better Delete Revision Manager)

Click on the button below the list to delete all items from the database, or exit the plugin screen with your post revisions undeleted …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Remove posts revisions list)

The unnecessary items will be cleared from the database …

(List of post revisions removed – Better Delete Revision Manager)

After a period of time, we recommend repeating this process to keep your database as light as possible, since WordPress will automatically begin storing your new revisions again …

(Revisions automatically start again!)

You can also use Better Delete Revisions to keep the database optimized …

(Keep your database optimized)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if your WP database tables need optimization and lets you run an easy one-click table optimization maintenance routine that does not require you to log into your hosting control panel or use complicated software …

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

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin For WordPress)

This plugin is similar to the one described above. It not only lets you remove unnecessary page and post revisions (it also lets you keep an ’x’ amount of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click cleaning and optimization routine, it also lets you perform the following optional maintenance tasks:

• Delete trashed posts, pages, and comments
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ’pingbacks’ and ‘trackbacks’
• Exclude specific pages/posts and tables from cleaning and optimization
• Create a log file of the optimizations
• And more!

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

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

WP Optimize

(WP-Optimize – WordPress Plugin)

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

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

(WP Optimize – WordPress Plugin Settings)

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

WP-Sweep

(WP Sweep)

WP Sweep allows you to clean up orphaned, unused, and duplicated data in the WP database, including revisions. This plugin cleans up:

• Auto drafts
• Unapproved comments
• Orphaned term relationships
• Duplicated post 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 WP database, go to Plugins > Add New and search for keywords like “Manage Revisions“, “Database Optimize“, etc …

(Plugins Menu – Add Plugin)

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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