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 Using Plugins

As soon as you edit and update posts and pages, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. These appear in a Revisions box below the post editor …

(Post revisions list)

Autosave and post revisions are no doubt features that help make work more efficient. If you write and edit often, however, the number of revisions can start to build up. This can significantly increase 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 there are 100 posts published on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your database could be storing around 1,500 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 1,500 revisions, the total database space wasted is about 150MB.

Fortunately, there are several WordPress plugins to help you control and manage your revisions and reduce the size of your WordPress database. Here are a few:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Plugin)

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

After the plugin has been installed and activated, you can use the plugin to optimize your WP database.

In the administration section, select Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Settings Menu – 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 remove from your WP database …

(Better Delete Revision – Check Revision Posts)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions associated with each post, the plugin will then calculate and return a list of revisions stored in the database …

(Posts revisions)

Click on ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ to delete all list items from your WP database, or choose ‘No, I prefer to keep them!’ to exit the Better Delete Revision Manager screen with all post revisions undeleted …

(Remove list of revisions)

The redundant post information will be cleared from your database …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Revisions deleted)

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

(WordPress automatically begins to save all post revisions again!)

You can also use Better Delete Revisions to optimize your site’s database …

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

The plugin checks to see if the database needs optimization and provides an easy one-click database table optimization function without requiring you to log into your hosting panel or mess with complicated database management applications …

(Better Delete Revision checks if your WP database tables need optimization)

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions)

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 your most recent revisions) and checks if your database tables need to be trimmed, cleaned, and optimized, it also lets you perform the following:

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin – Settings)

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

WP-Optimize

(WP Optimize)

In addition to performing tasks such as removing redundant revisions of pages and posts and checking if the database tables need cleaning and optimization, WP Optimize also lets you do maintenance tasks like:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Remove unapproved comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site from anywhere)
• Remove all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to retain selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Option to add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly schedules of optimization
• Display database table statistics (e.g. how much space can be optimized
• Receive email notifications after scheduled cleanup
• Marks potentially dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize Plugin – Settings Screen)

For more details, go here: WP-Optimize

WP-Sweep

(WP-Sweep)

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

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

(WP Sweep WP Plugin – Settings Page)

For more details, go here: WP Sweep 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 WordPress database, go to Plugins > Add New and search for keywords like “Manage Post Revisions“, “Optimize“, etc …

(WordPress Plugins Menu – Add New Plugins)

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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