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 Revisions – WordPress Plugins

As soon as you edit and save your pages and posts, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. You can see these displayed in a Revisions box below the page or post …

(WordPress revisions list – Post Editor section)

For most WordPress users, having access to effective workflow functions like autosave and automatic revisions is undoubtedly a great thing. If you write extensively, however, after a while the number of revisions can start building 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 there are 100 posts on your site with an average of 10 revisions each you could be storing an extra 2,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 2,000 post revisions, the total space wasted is about 200MB.

The good news is that there are some great (and free) WordPress plugins to help you manage your revisions and reduce the size of your WordPress database. Here are a few of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision – WordPress Plugin)

This plugin removes redundant revisions of posts from your WordPress database and other database content associated with each revision such as meta information, tags, relationships, and more.

After the plugin has been installed and activated, Better Delete Revision can perform optimizations on your database.

In the WP admin section, select Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Better Delete Revision – Settings)

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 delete from your WP database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

A list of post revisions stored in the database will display on the screen …

(List of post revisions)

Click on ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ to delete all list items from the database, or abandon the operation and exit the plugin …

(Better Delete Revision – Remove posts revisions)

The unnecessary post revisions will be deleted from your WordPress database …

(Revisions list deleted – Better Delete Revision)

As WordPress automatically stores your revisions, the process will automatically begin again (unless you have turned the feature off). After a period of time, we recommend repeating this process to keep your database as light as possible …

(WordPress automatically begins saving your revisions again!)

Like the other plugins listed in this section, you can also use the plugin to optimize the WP database …

(Better Delete Revision – Keep the database optimized)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if the WordPress database needs optimization and provides an easy one-click WordPress database table optimization routine without the need to log into your hosting control panel …

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

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

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 delete redundant revisions of pages and posts (with the option of keeping an ’x’ amount of the most recent revisions) and checks if the database tables need to be trimmed, cleaned, and optimized, it also lets you do optional maintenance tasks like:

• Delete trashed pages, posts, and comments
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ’orphan post meta items’
• Exclude certain pages/posts and tables from optimization
• Create a log file of the optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – Settings Panel)

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

WP Optimize

(WP-Optimize Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as removing unnecessary revisions of posts and pages and performing table cleaning and optimization maintenance routines, WP Optimize also lets you do database maintenance tasks such as:

• Enable/Disable comments for all published posts
• Removal of trashed comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Removal of all transient options
• Clear out the post trash
• Ability to keep selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization schedules
• Display database table statistics
• Receive email notifications on scheduled database cleanup
• Displays potentially dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize Plugin For WordPress – Settings Panel)

For more details, go here: WP-Optimize Plugin

WP-Sweep

(WP-Sweep – WordPress Plugin)

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

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

(WPSweep WordPress Plugin – Settings)

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 database, go to Plugins > Add New and type in keywords like “Revisions“, “Database Optimize“, etc …

(Add New 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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