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 Using Plugins

As soon as you update a post/page, WordPress begins to store revisions for the content in its database. These show up in a Revisions section below your content editor …

(Post Editor screen – Viewing the WordPress post revisions list)

Autosave and revisions are no doubt functions that help create a more effective workflow. If you write or edit extensively, however, the number of revisions can start to build up. This can significantly grow the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to also be able to manage your revisions.

(Post revisions can really add up after a while)

For example, if there are 100 posts published on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your database could be storing around 1,000 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 1,000 revisions, the total database space wasted is about 100MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin)

Better Delete Revision removes redundant revisions of posts from your WordPress database and other revision-related content like relationships, tags, meta information, and more.

After installing and activating the plugin, you can optimize your database.

Log into your WordPress admin section, then go to the main navigation menu and click on click on Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(WordPress Settings Menu – 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 WordPress database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions related to each post entry, the plugin calculates and returns a table of revisions stored in the database …

(Posts revisions)

Click on ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ below the list to remove all items from your database, or cancel the process and exit the tool with all post revisions undeleted …

(Better Delete Revision – Remove list of revisions)

The unnecessary post revisions will be deleted from your WP database …

(List of revisions cleared – Better Delete Revision)

After some time has passed, therefore, we recommend running the tool again to keep your database as light as possible, since WordPress automatically begins storing all revisions again …

(Post revisions automatically start being stored again!)

Like the other plugins described further below, you can also use Better Delete Revisions to keep your WP database optimized …

(Optimize your site’s database – Better Delete Revision Manager)

The plugin checks to see if your database tables need optimization and provides a one-click database table optimization maintenance routine without requiring you to log into your server panel …

(Better Delete Revision checks if the database needs optimization)

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions WP Plugin)

OptimizeDatabase not only can be used to remove redundant revisions of posts and pages (with the option to keep an ’x’ amount of the most recent revisions) and checks if the database tables need cleaning and optimization, it also lets you perform the following maintenance tasks:

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – Settings Screen)

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

WP Optimize

(WP-Optimize – WordPress Plugin)

In addition to cleaning unnecessary revisions of posts and pages and checking if the database needs cleaning and optimization, WP Optimize also lets you perform database maintenance tasks like:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Remove trashed comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Removal of all transient options
• Clear out post trash
• Ability to keep selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Option to add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization schedules
• View database table statistics
• E-mail notifications after scheduled cleanup
• Displays dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize – WordPress Plugin Settings Panel)

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

WP-Sweep

(WP Sweep)

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

• Auto drafts
• Spammed comments
• Orphaned user meta
• Duplicated user meta
• Transient options
• And more!

(WP-Sweep Plugin For WordPress – Settings Page)

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 database, go to Plugins > Add New and search for keywords like “Post Revisions“, “Database Optimize“, etc …

(Add Plugins – 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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