Steve Grunwell

<p>Unless post revisions are explicitly limited, WordPress will build up a hefty sum of revisions over time. While it’s great to have revision history for some recent content, the chances that old revisions will be necessary diminish the longer a post has been published. Revision Strike is designed to automatically remove these unneeded revisions on older, published posts.</p>
<h4>How does it work?</h4>
<p>First, a threshold is set, with a default of 30 days. Once a day, Revision Strike will run and find any post revisions in the database attached to published posts with a post date of at least 30 (or your custom threshold) days ago, and “strike” (tear-down and remove) them from the WordPress database.</p>
<h4>Contributing</h4>
<p>If you’d like to help build Revision Strike, please <a href="https://github.com/stevegrunwell/revision-strike" rel="nofollow ugc">visit the plugin’s GitHub page</a>. Contributors are welcome, and <a href="https://github.com/stevegrunwell/revision-strike#contributing" rel="nofollow ugc">details can be found in the repo’s README file</a>.</p>


Revision Strike

Periodically purge old post revisions via WP Cron.

Marcin Pietrzak

<p>Easily control and limit post revisions per post type to keep your WordPress database clean and optimized—no coding required!</p>
<p><strong><em>Simple Revision Control</em></strong> is a WordPress plugin that provides an easy way to manage and limit the number of post revisions stored for each post type on your site. Unlike editing the wp-config.php file—which only allows setting a single revision limit for all post types—this plugin lets you specify a different revision limit for each post type individually. You can also enable or disable revision support per post type and delete unwanted revisions directly from the plugin’s settings.</p>
<h4>Key features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Set custom revision limits for each post type, rather than a global limit.</li>
<li>Enable or disable revisions for post types that don’t support them by default.</li>
<li>Delete all unwanted revisions with a single click to keep your database clean.</li>
<li>Simple setup and configuration via the WordPress admin under Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Revisions.</li>
<li>No coding required—ideal for users who prefer not to edit wp-config.php.</li>
</ul>
<p>This plugin is especially useful for site owners who want granular control over revision storage to optimize database performance and avoid unnecessary clutter, without needing to modify core WordPress files.</p>
<h4>Asset image</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/theenmoy/8078124630/" rel="nofollow ugc">My Filing Cabinet</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/theenmoy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Theen Moy</a> Creative Common</p>
<h4>GitHub</h4>
<p>The Simple Revision Control plugin is available also on <a href="https://github.com/iworks/simple-revision-control" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.</p>


Simple Revision Control

Simple and it works!

Simple & works!

Easily control and limit post revisions per post type to keep your WordPress database clean and optimized—no coding required!

Revision Strike vs Simple Revision Control