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 edit and update your posts/pages, WordPress begins to store new post revisions in its database. You can see these displayed in a Revisions box at the bottom of your post or page …

(Post revisions box)

Autosave and revisions are no doubt functions that help make work more efficient. If you write and edit extensively, however, the revisions can start building up. This can significantly increase the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to be able to manage your revisions.

(As you write more posts on your site, your database could be storing lots of unnecessary data)

For example, if you have 100 posts on your site and each post has 20 revisions your WordPress database could be storing up to 2,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post is approximately 100KB data, then with 2,000 revisions, the total space wasted is about 200MB.

Fortunately, there are various plugins that can help you 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 revisions of posts from your WordPress database as well as other database content related to each revision like tags, meta data, relationships, and more.

After the plugin has been installed and activated, you can use it to optimize your WP database without having to log into your server.

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

(Settings Menu – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Check Revision Posts)

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

(List of post revisions – Better Delete Revision Manager)

Click on ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ below the list to remove the items from the WordPress database, or select ‘No, I prefer to keep them!’ to abandon the task and exit the page …

(Better Delete Revision – Remove posts revisions list)

The redundant post revisions will be cleared from your database …

(Better Delete Revision – Revisions cleared)

After some time has passed and depending on the amount of content you have published on your website, we recommend running the tool again to keep your database as lean as possible, since WordPress automatically begins to save all revisions again (unless you have turned the feature off) …

(WordPress automatically begins saving your post revisions again!)

You can also use this plugin to optimize the database …

(Keep the database optimized)

The plugin checks to see if the WP database needs optimization and lets you run a one-click table optimization routine without requiring you to log into your hosting panel or mess with technical database management applications …

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

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

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 redundant revisions of pages and posts (with the added option of keeping an ’x’ amount of your most recent revisions) and lets you perform an easy one-click table optimization routine, it also lets you do optional maintenance tasks like:

• Delete trashed posts, pages, and comments
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ‘expired transients’
• Exclude certain tables or specific pages/posts from cleaning and optimization
• Create a log file of the optimizations
• And more!

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

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

WP Optimize

(WP-Optimize WP Plugin)

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

• Enable/Disable comments for published posts
• Remove stale spam comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Removal of all transient options
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to retain 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-mail notifications after automatic database cleanups
• Displays dangerous cleanup options in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize Plugin – Settings)

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

WP Sweep

(WP Sweep WP Plugin)

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

• Auto drafts
• Deleted comments
• Orphan post meta
• Duplicated comment meta
• Unused terms
• And more!

(WP-Sweep Plugin For WordPress – Settings)

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 database, go to Plugins > Add New and search for keywords like “Manage Revisions“, “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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