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 create, edit, and update your posts and pages, WordPress begins to store new revisions in its database. You can see these displayed in a Revisions section below the post editor …

(The revisions box)

Autosave and revisions are no doubt functions that help create a more effective workflow. 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 also be able to manage your revisions.

(Post revisions can really add up after a while)

For example, if there are 50 posts on your site and each post has 20 revisions you could be storing up to 1,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 1,000 post revisions, the total database space wasted is about 100MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin For WordPress)

Better Delete Revision deletes redundant post revisions from your database and other revision-related content such as tags, relationships, meta data, and more.

After installing and activating the plugin, you can use it to perform optimizations on your database without having to log into your server.

In the main menu of your admin area, click on Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Settings – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Check Revision Posts)

A table of revisions stored in your WP database will display on the screen …

(Posts revisions – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Remove list of post revisions – Better Delete Revision Manager)

The redundant revisions will be deleted from the WP database …

(Post revisions list removed)

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

(Post revisions automatically start being saved again!)

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

(Optimize your site’s database)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if the WP database needs optimization and performs a one-click optimization routine without requiring you to log into your server panel …

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

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision – WordPress 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 delete redundant revisions of posts and pages (it also lets you keep a specific number of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform an easy one-click cleaning and optimization maintenance routine, it also lets you do the following maintenance tasks:

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin – Settings Panel)

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

WP Optimize

(WP-Optimize WP Plugin)

In addition to deleting unnecessary revisions of pages and posts and performing table cleaning and optimization maintenance, WP Optimize also lets you perform the following maintenance tasks:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Remove stale spam comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site anywhere, anytime)
• Remove all trackbacks and pingbacks
• 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
• Receive email notifications after scheduled cleanup
• Marks dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize Plugin For WordPress – Settings Page)

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

WP-Sweep

(WP-Sweep)

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

• Auto drafts
• Spammed comments
• Orphaned term relationships
• Duplicated term meta
• Unused terms
• And more!

(WPSweep WordPress Plugin – Settings Panel)

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

For more plugins that can help you manage post revisions and optimize your database, go to Plugins > Add New and type in keywords like “Post 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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