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

(The WordPress post revisions box – Post Editor section)

For most WordPress users, having features like autosave and revisions is no doubt a good thing. If you write or edit a lot of content, however, the revisions can start to build up. This can significantly bloat the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to manage your revisions.

(Post revisions can really add up after a while)

For example, if there are 300 posts on your site and each post has an average of 20 revisions you could be storing an extra 6,000 copies of old data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 6,000 post revisions, the total space wasted is about 600MB.

Fortunately, there are some really great (and free) WordPress plugins available to help you control and manage your revisions and reduce the size of your database. Here are some of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin)

Better Delete Revision removes redundant post revisions from your database and other database content associated with each revision like tags, meta information, relationships, and more.

After installing and activating the plugin, you can use the plugin to perform optimizations on your database.

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

(Better Delete Revision – Settings Menu)

This brings you to the Better Delete Revision Manager panel. Click ’Check Revision Posts’ to calculate the number of redundant post revisions you can delete from your database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision)

A list of post revisions stored in the WP database will display on the screen …

(Posts revisions – Better Delete Revision Manager)

Click on the button below the list to remove all items from your database, or select the ‘No, …’ button to exit the plugin with all post revisions undeleted …

(Better Delete Revision – Delete posts revisions list)

The redundant post information will be deleted from the database …

(Post revisions removed)

As WordPress automatically stores all revisions, the process will automatically start again. After some time has passed, therefore, we recommend running the tool again to keep your database as lean as possible …

(WordPress will automatically begin to store all post revisions again!)

You can also use this plugin to optimize the database …

(Keep the WP database optimized)

The plugin checks to see if the database tables need to be optimized and provides a one-click optimization feature that does not require you to log into your server control panel …

(Better Delete Revision lets you perform an easy 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 – WordPress Plugin)

The Optimize Database plugin not only lets you delete unnecessary page and post revisions (it also lets you keep a specific number of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click table optimization maintenance routine, it also lets you do the following optional maintenance tasks:

• Delete trashed posts, pages, and comments
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ’orphan postmeta items’
• Exclude certain tables or even specific posts/pages from cleaning and optimization
• Automatically schedule optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin – Settings)

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

WP-Optimize

(WP Optimize)

In addition to performing tasks such as cleaning unnecessary page and post revisions and checking if your database tables need cleaning and optimization, WP Optimize also lets you do the following:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Removal of spam comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Remove all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clear out the 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
• See database table statistics
• E-mail notifications after scheduled database cleanups
• Highlights dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize Plugin – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize

WP-Sweep

(WP Sweep Plugin)

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

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

(WP-Sweep Plugin – Settings Screen)

For more details, go here: WP-Sweep

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“, “Optimize“, etc …

(Add New Plugins – 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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