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 Revisions – WordPress Plugins

As soon as you edit and save a page/post, WordPress begins to store new revisions of your content in its database. These show up in a Revisions list below the page editor …

(Post Editor section – View the WordPress post revisions list)

For most users, having autosave and automatic revisions is undoubtedly a timesaver. If you write and 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 be able to manage your revisions.

(Post revisions can really add up after a while)

For example, if you have 200 posts published on your site and each post has an average of 10 revisions you could be storing an extra 2,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 2,000 revisions of that post, the total space wasted is about 200MB.

Fortunately, there are a number of plugins for WordPress available to help you control and manage your revisions and reduce the size of your database. Let’s take a look at a few of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Plugin)

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

After installing and activating the plugin, Better Delete Revision can optimize your database without having to log into your server.

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

(Settings – Better Delete Revision)

This brings you to the Better Delete Revision Manager area. Click the ‘Check Revision Posts’ button to calculate the number of redundant post revisions can be safely deleted from your WordPress database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions stored with each post entry, the plugin returns a list of post revisions stored in the WordPress database …

(List of revisions – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Clear posts revisions)

The unnecessary items will be removed from your database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Revisions list deleted)

As WordPress automatically stores your post revisions, the process will automatically start again. After a period of time and depending on the amount of content you have published on your site, therefore, we recommend repeating this process to keep your WP database as light as possible …

(Revisions automatically start being stored again!)

You can also use the plugin to optimize your WP database …

(Keep your site’s database optimized – Better Delete Revision)

The plugin checks to see if your database needs optimization and provides a one-click WP database optimization feature without requiring you to log into your server panel …

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

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision Plugin

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions WP Plugin)

This plugin is similar to the one described above. It not only lets you delete unnecessary revisions of pages and posts (with the added option of keeping a specific number of your most recent revisions) and lets you perform an easy one-click database cleaning and optimization routine, it also lets you perform maintenance tasks like:

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – Settings Screen)

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

WP-Optimize

(WP Optimize WordPress Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as cleaning redundant post and page revisions and checking if the database needs to be optimized, WP Optimize also lets you perform maintenance tasks such as:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Removal of unapproved comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Remove transient options
• Clear out post trash
• Ability to retain data from selected number of weeks when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization schedules
• See database table statistics (e.g. how much space can be optimized
• Receive email notifications on scheduled cleanups
• Marks potentially dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize – WordPress Plugin Settings)

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

WP-Sweep

(WP Sweep Plugin)

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

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

(WP-Sweep – WordPress Plugin Settings)

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

In addition to the above plugins, you can 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 …

(Add Plugin – 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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