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 create, edit, and update a page/post, WordPress begins to store new revisions in its database. These are displayed in a Revisions box below your page or post …

(View the post revisions box – Post Editor section)

Autosave and revisions are no doubt features that help make work more productive. If you write and edit often, however, the 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.

(Your database could be storing lots of unnecessary data)

For example, if you have 200 posts on your site and each post has an average of 15 revisions you could be storing an extra 3,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 3,000 revisions of that post, the total database space wasted is about 300MB.

Fortunately, there are several plugins for WordPress available 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)

This plugin deletes redundant revisions of posts from your WordPress database and other revision-related content such as tags, meta information, relationships, and more.

After the plugin has been installed and activated, you can perform optimizations on your WordPress database without having to log into your server.

Go to your administration area and click on Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(WordPress Settings – Better Delete Revision)

This brings you to the Better Delete Revision Manager screen. Click the ‘Check Revision Posts’ button to calculate the number of redundant post revisions can be deleted from the WP database …

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Posts revisions list)

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

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Clear posts revisions list)

The unnecessary post information will be cleared from the WordPress database …

(List of revisions deleted)

As WordPress automatically saves your new post revisions, the process will automatically begin again (unless you have chosen to turn the feature off). After a while, we recommend running the tool again to keep your WP database as lean as possible …

(Revisions automatically start again!)

You can also use this plugin to optimize the site’s database …

(Keep the database optimized – Better Delete Revision)

The plugin checks to see if your WP database tables need optimization and provides a one-click table optimization function without the need to log into your hosting panel or use complicated software …

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

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – WordPress Plugin)

This plugin is similar to the one described above. It not only lets you delete unnecessary revisions of pages and posts (with the added option of keeping a specific number of the most recent revisions) and lets you perform a one-click WordPress database optimization routine, it also lets you perform the following maintenance tasks:

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

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin – Settings Screen)

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

WP Optimize

(WP Optimize WP Plugin)

In addition to performing tasks such as deleting redundant post and page revisions and performing database cleaning and optimization routines, WP Optimize also lets you perform maintenance tasks like:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Remove stale spam comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Removal of all transient options
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to retain data from selected number of weeks when cleaning up
• Option to add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization schedules
• View database table statistics (e.g. how much space has been cleared
• Receive email notifications on automatic cleanups
• Marks dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize WordPress Plugin – Settings)

For more details, go here: WP Optimize WP Plugin

WP-Sweep

(WP-Sweep)

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

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

(WP-Sweep WP 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

In addition to the above plugins, you can view more plugins that can help you manage post revisions and optimize your WordPress database, go to Plugins > Add New and type in keywords like “Revisions“, “Optimize“, etc …

(Add New 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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