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 Plugins

As soon as you create, edit, and save posts and pages, WordPress begins to store new revisions in its database. These show up in a Revisions list below your post or page …

(Post Editor screen – View the post revisions box)

Having workflow functions like autosave and automatic revisions is no doubt very useful. If you write often, however, over time the revisions can start building up. This can significantly increase 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 you have 200 posts published on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your WordPress database could be storing an extra 2,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 2,000 revisions of that post, the total space wasted is about 200MB.

Fortunately, there are several plugins that can help you control your revisions and reduce the size of your WordPress database. Here are a few:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin)

This plugin removes redundant revisions of posts from your WordPress database and other revision-related content like tags, meta data, relationships, and more.

After the plugin has been installed and activated, you can use the Better Delete Revision Manager to optimize your database without having to log into your server.

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

(WordPress Settings Menu – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Check Revision Posts)

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

(Posts revisions)

Click on ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ below the list to clear all items from your database, or abandon the task and exit the tool …

(Clear posts revisions)

The unnecessary data will be removed from your WP database …

(List of post revisions removed – Better Delete Revision)

After a while, therefore, we recommend repeating this process to keep your database as lean as possible, since WordPress will automatically begin to store all post revisions again (unless you have turned the feature off) …

(WordPress automatically begins saving all post revisions again!)

You can also use the plugin to optimize the WordPress database …

(Better Delete Revision – Optimize the WP database)

Better Delete Revision checks to see if the database tables need to be optimized and lets you perform an easy one-click database optimization routine without requiring you to log into your server panel …

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

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin For WordPress)

OptimizeDatabase not only lets you delete redundant page and post revisions (with the added option to keep an ’x’ amount of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click database cleaning and optimization routine, it also lets you perform the following:

• Delete trashed pages, posts, and comments
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ’pingbacks’ and ‘trackbacks’
• Exclude selected posts/pages and tables from optimization
• Automatically schedule optimizations
• And more!

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – WordPress Plugin Settings)

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

WP Optimize

(WP Optimize WordPress Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as deleting redundant post and page revisions 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
• Removal of stale spam comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Remove all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to keep selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly schedules of optimization
• View database table statistics (e.g. how much space can be optimized
• E-mail notifications after scheduled database cleanups
• Highlights potentially dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize WP Plugin – Settings Screen)

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

WP-Sweep

(WP Sweep Plugin)

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

• Auto drafts
• Deleted comments
• Orphaned term relationships
• Duplicated post meta
• Unused terms
• And more!

(WPSweep Plugin For WordPress – Settings Panel)

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 WP database, go to Plugins > Add New and search for keywords like “Revisions“, “Optimize“, etc …

(WordPress Plugins Menu – Add New Plugin)

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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