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 – WordPress Plugins

As soon as you edit and update pages and posts, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. These are displayed in a Revisions section at the bottom of the page or post …

(Post Editor section – Viewing the Post revisions box)

Autosave and revisions are no doubt features that help create a more productive workflow. If you write or edit extensively, however, the number of revisions can start to build 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 200 posts on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your database could be storing an extra 3,000 copies of old data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 3,000 post revisions, the total space wasted is about 300MB.

The good news is that there are a few great plugins available 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 Plugin For WordPress)

This plugin deletes redundant post revisions from your database and other revision-related content like tags, relationships, meta information, and more.

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

Log into your WordPress admin section, then go to the main navigation menu and select select Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(WP Settings – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions stored with each post entry, the plugin calculates and displays a list of post revisions stored in the database …

(Better Delete Revision – Posts revisions list)

Click on the ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ button below the list to remove all items from the WP database, or select ‘No, I prefer to keep them!’ to cancel the task and exit the tool …

(Better Delete Revision – Remove posts revisions)

The redundant post revisions will be removed from your database …

(Post revisions list cleared – Better Delete Revision)

As WordPress automatically saves all post revisions, the process will automatically start again (unless you specifically turn the feature off). After a while, therefore, we recommend repeating this process to keep your database as light as possible …

(WordPress will automatically begin saving your post revisions again!)

Like the other plugins listed further below, you can also use Better Delete Revisions to keep your database optimized …

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Optimize the database)

The plugin checks to see if your WP database tables need to be optimized and provides a one-click optimization function without the need to log into your server panel or mess with complicated database management software …

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

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions)

OptimizeDatabase not only can be used to remove unnecessary page and post revisions (with the added option of keeping a specific number of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click optimization maintenance routine, it also lets you perform database maintenance tasks such as:

• Delete trashed pages, comments, and posts
• Delete unused tags
• Delete ’orphan post meta items’
• Exclude specific pages/posts 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 Plugin)

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

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Removal of stale metadata from comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site from anywhere)
• Removal of all transient options
• 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
• E-mail notifications after scheduled cleanup
• Displays dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize WordPress Plugin – Settings Panel)

For more details, go here: WP-Optimize Plugin For WordPress

WP-Sweep

(WP Sweep)

In addition to optimizing your database tables and deleting unnecessary post revisions, WP Sweep also cleans up:

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

(WPSweep Plugin – Settings Screen)

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

For more plugins that can help you manage post revisions and optimize your WordPress database, go to Plugins > Add New and type in keywords like “Manage Revisions“, “Database Optimize“, etc …

(Add Plugin – 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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