Revision Control Using A Simple WordPress Plugin

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Revision Control Using A Simple WordPress Plugin

This revision control plugin allows you to keep your WordPress database size manageable. This is especially important if you have a lot of posts or make a lot of edits to your post.

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Every time you save a post or page the previous version is saved in the database. This allows you to revert back to older versions of pages if you need to.

This functionality has saved by day on more than one occasion.

The problem with it is that it all those revisions take up a lot of space in your database.

Just so we're clear, every time you make a change and click "Update" the old version is stored in the database. This is true if you rewrite the whole post or if you just a space somewhere.

I've seen posts with over 100 revisions in the database! These revisions spanned multiple years and where take up valuable space.

If you want more revision control it's important to use a Revision Control Plugin. The plugin I walk you through in this tutorial allows you to set a limit to the number of revisions you each post or page is allowed to store in the database.

The first step is to download the plugin, so let's do that.

To install this plugin please log into your WordPress dashboard, hover over Plugins and then click on Add New.

On the next page type "Revision Control" into the search bar. The plugin we want should be the first one in the top left.

Click on the Install Now button and then click Activate after it's installed.

Once activated, the plugin adds a new menu item to the admin menu. Go to Settings, then click on Revisions. This is the options page for the plugin.

Use the dropdowns in the Default Revisions Status section to set the number of revisions allowed for each post type.

You may see more or less post types than I have in this example because the plugin can limit revisions for custom post types.

Don't worry about the Revision Range options. Just leave them as they are.

Now save changes.

The revision control settings will be applied automatically from now on. However, your old posts will still have all the revisions they had before you installed the plugin.

What you need to do is go to each existing post or page and click on "Update". This will delete all the revisions above the number or revisions you're allowing.

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