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 Post Revisions – WordPress Plugins

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

(Post revisions list)

For most users, having autosave and revisions is undoubtedly very useful. If you write extensively, however, the revisions can start to build up. This can significantly grow the size of your WordPress database, so it’s important to manage your revisions.

(Your database could be storing lots of unnecessary data)

For example, if you have 200 posts published on your site with an average of 10 revisions each you could be storing up to 2,000 copies of unnecessary data. If your post averages 100KB data, then with 2,000 revisions of that post, the total database space wasted is about 200MB.

Fortunately, there are various WordPress plugins available to help you control and manage your revisions and reduce the size of your database. Here are a few:

Better Delete Revision

(Better Delete Revision Plugin For WordPress)

Better Delete Revision deletes redundant post revisions from your WordPress database as well as other database content associated with each revision such as relationships, tags, meta data, and more.

After installing and activating the plugin, the plugin can optimize your WP database without having to log into your server.

In your WordPress Dashboard, choose Settings > Better Delete Revision …

(Better Delete Revision – WP Settings Menu)

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

(Check Revision Posts – Better Delete Revision Manager)

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

(List of revisions – Better Delete Revision)

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

(Better Delete Revision Manager – Clear posts revisions)

The unnecessary post revisions will be removed from the WordPress database …

(Revisions list removed)

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

(Revisions automatically start being stored again!)

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

(Optimize your WordPress database)

The plugin checks to see if the WP database tables need to be optimized and performs a one-click WordPress database optimization routine without requiring you to log into your hosting control panel or mess with complicated database management tools …

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

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

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

(Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Plugin)

OptimizeDatabase not only lets you remove unnecessary revisions of posts and pages (it also lets you keep an ‘x’-amount of your most recent revisions) and lets you perform an easy one-click table optimization routine, it also lets you do the following:

• Delete trashed comments, pages, and posts
• Delete unused tags
• Delete ’pingbacks’ and ‘trackbacks’
• Exclude certain tables and specific posts/pages from optimization
• Create a log file of the optimizations
• And more!

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

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

WP Optimize

(WP Optimize Plugin)

In addition to removing unnecessary revisions of pages and posts and checking if the WP database needs cleaning and optimization, this plugin also lets you do the following maintenance tasks:

• Enable/Disable comments for published posts
• Removal of unapproved comments
• Mobile device friendly (optimize your site anywhere, anytime)
• Remove all trackbacks and pingbacks
• Clean up auto draft posts
• Ability to retain selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
• Option to add or remove link on WP admin bar
• Enable/Disable weekly optimization schedules
• Display database table statistics (e.g. how much space has been cleared
• Receive email notifications on automatic cleanups
• Highlights dangerous cleanup operations in red
• And more!

(WP-Optimize Plugin For WordPress – 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 post revisions, WP-Sweep also cleans up:

• Auto drafts
• Deleted comments
• Orphan comment meta
• Duplicated comment meta
• Transient options
• And more!

(WP Sweep – WordPress Plugin Settings Page)

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

For 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 Post 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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