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 posts and pages, WordPress begins to store revisions of your content in its database. These are displayed in a Revisions section below your page editor …

(Viewing the revisions list)

Autosave and revisions are no doubt functions that help make work more efficient. If you write or edit a lot of content, however, the revisions can start building up. This can significantly grow 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 you have 300 posts published on your site with an average of 10 revisions each your WordPress database could be storing up to 6,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 6,000 revisions, the total space wasted is about 600MB.

Fortunately, there are various WordPress plugins to help you manage your revisions and reduce the size of your database. Here are some of these:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin)

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

After the plugin has been installed and activated, you can use the Better Delete Revision Manager to optimize your database.

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

(Better Delete Revision – Settings Menu)

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

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision)

A list of revisions stored in your WordPress database will be returned on the screen …

(List of revisions)

Click on the ‘Yes, I would like to delete them! …’ button to remove all list items from the WP database, or exit the plugin with your post revisions undeleted …

(Clear list of post revisions)

The redundant data will be deleted from the WP database …

(List of revisions deleted)

After a period of time and depending on the number of posts you have published on your site and their associated post revisions, therefore, we recommend repeating this process to keep your WordPress database as lean as possible, since WordPress automatically begins storing your post revisions again (unless you have turned the feature off) …

(WordPress automatically begins storing all revisions again!)

You can also use this plugin to keep the WP database optimized …

(Keep the WP database optimized)

The plugin checks to see if the database needs to be optimized and runs an easy one-click WP database table optimization routine without requiring you to log into your server panel …

(Better Delete Revision checks if the database needs optimization)

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions)

The Optimize Database plugin not only lets you prune unnecessary revisions of pages and posts (with the added option to keep an ‘x’-amount of the most recent revisions) and checks if the WP database tables need optimization, it also lets you perform the following optional maintenance tasks:

• Delete trashed posts, comments, and pages
• Delete spammed comments
• Delete ‘expired transients’
• Exclude specific posts/pages and tables from cleaning and 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 – WordPress Plugin

WP Optimize

(WP Optimize Plugin)

In addition to removing unnecessary revisions of pages and posts and performing table optimization routines, WP Optimize also lets you do the following maintenance tasks:

• Enable/Disable trackbacks for all published posts
• Removal of stale unapproved comments
• Mobile device friendly
• Removal of all transient options
• Clear out post trash
• 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
• View database table statistics (e.g. how much space can be optimized
• E-mail notifications on automatic database cleanups
• Displays dangerous cleanup items in red
• And more!

(WP Optimize – Settings Page)

For more details, go here: WP-Optimize Plugin

WP Sweep

(WP-Sweep Plugin)

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

• Auto drafts
• Deleted comments
• Orphan comment meta
• Duplicated comment meta
• Transient options
• 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

To 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 “Manage Revisions“, “Optimize“, etc …

(Plugins Menu – Add 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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