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 Post Revisions – WordPress Plugins

As soon as you create, edit, and update posts and pages, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. These show up in a Revisions box at the bottom of your content editor …

(WordPress revisions list – Post Editor section)

Autosave and post revisions are no doubt features that help create a more effective workflow. If you write or edit a lot of content, however, over time the revisions can start to build up. This can significantly grow 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 you have 50 posts on your site and each post has an average of 20 revisions you could be storing around 1,000 copies of old data. If your post is approximately 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 free WordPress plugins to help you control your revisions and reduce the size of your WordPress database. Here are a few:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin)

This plugin deletes redundant revisions of posts from your database as well as other revision-related content such as meta information, relationships, tags, and more.

After installing and activating the plugin, Better Delete Revision can optimize your WordPress database.

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

(Settings – Better Delete Revision)

This brings you to the Better Delete Revision Manager screen. Click ’Check Revision Posts’ to calculate the number of redundant post revisions you can safely remove from the WordPress database …

(Better Delete Revision – Check Revision Posts)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions belonging to each post entry, the plugin display a table of post revisions stored in your database …

(Posts revisions list)

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

(Delete list of revisions – Better Delete Revision)

The unnecessary items will be cleared from the database …

(Post revisions cleared – Better Delete Revision)

As WordPress automatically stores all new post revisions, the process will automatically begin again. After a period of time, therefore, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WordPress database as light as possible …

(Post revisions automatically start being saved again!)

Like the other plugins described in this section, you can also use the plugin to keep your WordPress database optimized …

(Optimize the database)

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

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

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin)

OptimizeDatabase not only lets you prune redundant post and page revisions (it also lets you keep an ‘x’-amount of your most recent revisions) and lets you perform an easy one-click cleaning and optimization routine, it also lets you perform the following maintenance tasks:

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions WordPress Plugin – Settings)

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

WP-Optimize

(WP-Optimize Plugin)

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

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Removal of stale metadata from comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site from anywhere)
• Removal of all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clear out the post trash
• Ability to retain data from selected number of weeks when cleaning up
• Option to add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization scheduling
• Display database table statistics (e.g. how much space has been cleared
• Receive email notifications on scheduled cleanups
• Highlights dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize – WordPress Plugin Settings)

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

WP Sweep

(WP-Sweep Plugin For WordPress)

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

• Auto drafts
• Unapproved comments
• Orphaned user meta
• Duplicated term meta
• Unused terms
• And more!

(WP-Sweep – Settings Page)

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

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 “Revisions“, “Optimize“, etc …

(Add 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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