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 Content Revisions – WordPress Plugins

As soon as you update pages and posts, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. These appear in a Revisions list at the bottom of the page editor …

(Post revisions list)

Having autosave and automatic revisions is no doubt something that can help make work more efficient. If you write often, however, over time the revisions can start to build up. This can significantly bloat 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 you have 100 posts published on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your WordPress database could be storing an extra 1,500 copies of old data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 1,500 revisions, the total space wasted is about 150MB.

Fortunately, there are several plugins for WordPress available that can help you manage your revisions and reduce the size of your WordPress database. Here are a few:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision)

Better Delete Revision deletes redundant revisions of posts from your database and database content associated with each revision like meta information, relationships, tags, and more.

After installing and activating the plugin, you can optimize your WordPress database without having to log into your server.

In your Dashboard, select Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(WP Settings Menu – 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 you can safely remove from the WP database …

(Better Delete Revision – Check Revision Posts)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions related to each post, the plugin return a list of post revisions stored in your 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 WordPress database, or abandon the task and exit the plugin …

(Delete list of post revisions – Better Delete Revision)

The unnecessary items will be deleted from your database …

(Revisions list removed)

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

(Post revisions automatically start being stored again!)

Like the other plugins described in this section, you can also use Better Delete Revisions to keep the WordPress database optimized …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Keep the database optimized)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if the WP database tables need to be optimized and performs a one-click WP database optimization routine that does not require you to log into your server control panel or use technical applications …

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

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision Plugin

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – WordPress Plugin)

This plugin is similar to the one described above. It not only lets you prune redundant revisions of pages and posts (with the option of keeping an ‘x’-amount 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 optional tasks:

• Delete trashed comments, posts, and pages
• Delete unused tags
• Delete ‘expired transients’
• 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 WordPress Plugin)

In addition to cleaning unnecessary page and post revisions and performing table optimization maintenance, WP Optimize also lets you do database maintenance tasks like:

• Enable/Disable comments for all published posts
• Remove stale unapproved comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Removal of all transient options
• 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
• See database table statistics (e.g. how much space has been cleared
• Receive email notifications on scheduled cleanups
• Displays potentially dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP-Optimize

WP Sweep

(WP Sweep)

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

• Auto drafts
• Deleted comments
• Orphaned comment meta
• Duplicated user meta
• Unused terms
• And more!

(WP Sweep – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Sweep WP 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 search for keywords like “Revisions“, “Optimize Database“, etc …

(Add New Plugins – 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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