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 save a page or post, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. These show up in a Revisions section at the bottom of your content editor …

(View the revisions list)

For most WordPress users, having access to content workflow features like autosave and revisions is no doubt a great thing. If you write or edit often, however, over time the number of revisions can start building up. This can significantly bloat 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 there are 10 posts on your site and each post has an average of 5 revisions your WordPress database could be storing an extra 500 copies of old data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 500 revisions of that post, the total space wasted is about 50MB.

The good news is that there are various free plugins available to help you manage your revisions and reduce the size of your WordPress database. Let’s take a look at a few:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision)

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

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

Go to your administration section and select Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Better Delete Revision – Settings Menu)

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

(Better Delete Revision – Check Revision Posts)

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

(Posts revisions)

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

(Better Delete Revision – Remove list of revisions)

The unnecessary post revisions will be removed from your database …

(Better Delete Revision – Revisions removed)

As WordPress automatically saves all post revisions, the process will automatically start again (unless you have turned the feature off). After a period of time, we recommend running the tool again to keep your database as light as possible …

(WordPress automatically begins storing all post revisions again!)

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

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

The plugin checks to see if the WordPress database tables need optimization and provides a one-click database optimization maintenance routine without the need to log into your hosting control panel …

(Better Delete Revision lets you perform an easy one-click optimization routine)

For more details, go here: Better Delete Revision

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 remove redundant post and page revisions (it also lets you keep a specific number of your most recent revisions) and checks if the WP database needs optimization, it also lets you do the following maintenance tasks:

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions WP Plugin – Settings)

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

WP-Optimize

(WP Optimize)

In addition to deleting unnecessary post and page revisions and performing table cleaning and optimization routines, WP Optimize also lets you perform the following:

• Enable/Disable comments for published posts
• Removal of akismet metadata from comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site anywhere, anytime)
• Remove all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clear out the post trash
• 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
• View database table statistics
• Receive email notifications after scheduled cleanups
• Displays potentially dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize Plugin – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize Plugin

WP Sweep

(WP-Sweep)

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

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

(WP-Sweep – WordPress Plugin Settings Page)

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

To view 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 Database“, etc …

(Plugins Menu – Add New)

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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