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 edit and update your pages/posts, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. These appear in a Revisions list at the bottom of your post or page …

(WordPress revisions list)

Autosave and revisions are no doubt functions that help make work more productive. If you write and edit often, however, the revisions can start building 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 there are 200 posts published on your site with an average of 10 revisions each you could be storing around 4,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 4,000 post revisions, the total space wasted is about 400MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision WordPress Plugin)

Better Delete Revision removes redundant post revisions from your WordPress database and other revision-related content such as relationships, meta information, tags, and more.

After installing and activating the plugin, the plugin can perform optimizations on your database without having to log into your server.

In your Dashboard menu, select Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Better Delete Revision – Settings Menu)

This brings you to the Better Delete Revision Manager screen. Click ’Check Revision Posts’ to calculate how many redundant post revisions you can delete from the database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision)

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

(List of revisions – Better Delete Revision Manager)

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

(Better Delete Revision – Clear list of revisions)

The redundant items will be removed from the WordPress database …

(Revisions removed – Better Delete Revision Manager)

After a period of time and depending on the amount of content you have published on your site and their related post revisions, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WP database as light as possible, since WordPress will automatically begin storing post revisions again (unless you have turned the feature off) …

(Post revisions automatically start again!)

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

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

The plugin checks to see if the WP database needs optimization and runs a one-click WP database optimization routine without the need to log into your server panel or use technical applications …

(Better Delete Revision lets you perform a one-click database table optimization routine)

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin)

OptimizeDatabase not only lets you delete unnecessary page and post revisions (it also lets you keep a specific number of your most recent revisions) and lets you perform an easy one-click optimization routine, it also lets you do the following:

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – WordPress Plugin Settings)

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

WP Optimize

(WP-Optimize WordPress Plugin)

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

• Enable/Disable comments for all published posts
• Remove trashed comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site on the go)
• Remove transient options
• Clear out the post trash
• Ability to keep selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Option to add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization schedules
• See database table statistics (e.g. how much space has been cleared
• E-mail notifications after automatic database cleanups
• Highlights dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize – WordPress Plugin Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize WordPress Plugin

WP Sweep

(WP-Sweep)

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

• Auto drafts
• Unapproved comments
• Orphan comment meta
• Duplicated user meta
• Transient options
• And more!

(WPSweep – WordPress Plugin Settings Panel)

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 search for keywords like “Manage 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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