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.

Revision Management WordPress Plugins

As soon as you create, edit, and save posts and pages, WordPress begins to store new revisions for your content in its database. These appear in a Revisions box at the bottom of your post editor …

(Post Editor section – Viewing the post revisions box)

Autosave and post revisions are no doubt features that help make work more efficient. If you write or edit often, however, the revisions can start building up. This can significantly increase 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 50 posts published on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your database could be storing up to 1,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 1,000 revisions of that post, the total space wasted is about 100MB.

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

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin For WordPress)

Better Delete Revision removes redundant revisions of posts from your WordPress database and database content belonging to each revision such as meta information, tags, relationships, and more.

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

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

(Better Delete Revision – WP Settings Menu)

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

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Check Revision Posts)

Depending on the number of posts and revisions belonging to each post, the plugin calculates and displays a table of post revisions stored in the WordPress database …

(Posts revisions list)

Click on the ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ button to clear all list items from your WordPress database …

(Clear list of revisions – Better Delete Revision Manager)

The redundant revisions will be deleted from the database …

(List of revisions cleared – Better Delete Revision Manager)

As WordPress automatically saves all revisions, the process will automatically start again (unless you specifically turn the feature off). After some time has passed, therefore, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WP database as light as possible …

(Revisions automatically start being stored again!)

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

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Keep your WordPress database optimized)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if the WP database needs optimization and runs a one-click table optimization routine that does not require you to log into your server panel or use technical database management software …

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

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin For WordPress)

This plugin is similar to the one described above. It not only lets you remove unnecessary revisions of posts and pages (with the added option to keep a specific number of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click table cleaning and optimization routine, it also lets you do the following:

• Delete trashed posts, pages, and comments
• Delete unused tags
• Delete ’orphan post meta items’
• Exclude selected tables and/or specific pages/posts from cleaning and optimization
• Automatically schedule optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – WordPress Plugin Settings Page)

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

WP Optimize

(WP-Optimize WordPress Plugin)

In addition to deleting unnecessary post and page revisions and checking if the WP database needs cleaning and optimization, WP Optimize also lets you perform the following maintenance tasks:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Remove trashed comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Remove all transient options
• Clear out the post trash
• Ability to keep data from selected number of weeks when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly schedules of optimization
• View database table statistics
• E-mail notifications on scheduled database cleanups
• Highlights potentially dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize – Settings)

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

WP Sweep

(WP Sweep – WordPress Plugin)

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

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

(WPSweep WP Plugin – Settings Screen)

For more details, go here: WP-Sweep – WordPress 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 WP database, go to Plugins > Add New and search for keywords like “Revisions“, “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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