Troy Chaplin

Ever updated a PDF and realized half your site links to the old version? Or replaced a hero image and watched your carefully-tuned page layout collapse? Smart Media Replacement solves both problems — and adds a safety net you’ll wish you had earlier.
Replace the file, keep the URL. When you swap an attachment with this plugin, the file’s URL never changes. Every existing link, every email that points to it, every page that embeds it, every SEO ranking — all of it keeps working. No 404s, no broken references, no scrambling to update old content.
Full revision history, one-click restore. Every replacement automatically snapshots the previous version. Made a mistake? Roll back instantly. Want to see what the file looked like three months ago? Download it. Each revision is timestamped, attributed to the user who made it, and can carry an optional note describing what changed.
Works where you work. Replace from the Media Library, or from inside any block’s Replace toolbar in the block editor — image, cover, video, audio, file, gallery, and more. The editor refreshes in place, no page reload, no lost work.
Safe by default. The plugin validates filenames, file types, and image dimensions to keep your URLs intact and your layouts unbroken. WordPress’s auto-scaled images are handled transparently. Revisions land in a database table that’s self-healing on every admin load, and the plugin’s settings page gives you control over how many revisions to keep, how long to retain them, and which file types are tracked.
<h4>Use cases</h4>
<ul>
<li>Monthly reports and newsletters — Update PDFs linked from past emails without breaking any of those links.</li>
<li>Brand refreshes — Replace logos, headers, and brand imagery once; everywhere they’re used updates automatically.</li>
<li>Legal documents — Keep current versions of terms of service, privacy policy, and contracts live, with older versions preserved as revisions for compliance.</li>
<li>Image updates — Refresh product photos, blog hero images, and marketing assets without breaking responsive sizes or SEO.</li>
<li>Typo fixes in published assets — Fix errors in infographics, downloadable guides, or e-books without scrambling to update references across your site.</li>
<li>Versioned downloads — White papers, e-books, technical docs that need to stay at a stable URL while preserving older versions on demand.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Features</h4>
Replacement and URL preservation
<ul>
<li>Replace any media file while keeping its URL, ID, and metadata intact</li>
<li>Existing internal and external links keep working — no 404s, no SEO impact</li>
<li>Automatic regeneration of image size variants (thumbnails, medium, large, etc.)</li>
<li>Transparent handling of WordPress’s <code>-scaled</code> large images</li>
</ul>
Revision history
<ul>
<li>Every replacement automatically snapshots the previous file</li>
<li>Major/minor version numbering (e.g. v1.0 → v1.1 → v2.0)</li>
<li>Optional replacement note per revision, attributed to the user</li>
<li>One-click restore of any past version</li>
<li>Download individual revisions, or download a ZIP archive of an attachment’s full history</li>
<li>Configurable: maximum revisions per file, age-based retention with daily cleanup, per-file-type opt-in</li>
</ul>
Block editor integration
<ul>
<li>“Update existing file” in every block’s Replace toolbar dropdown (image, cover, video, audio, file, gallery, media-text, post-featured-image)</li>
<li>In-place editor refresh after replacement — no page reload, no lost work</li>
<li>Accessibility-friendly notifications via WordPress’s native screen reader announcements</li>
</ul>
Validation safeguards
<ul>
<li>Filename matching to keep URLs stable</li>
<li>Image dimension matching to prevent layout breakage</li>
<li>MIME-type matching to prevent file corruption</li>
<li>Clear, actionable error messages when something doesn’t match</li>
</ul>
Built-in admin
<ul>
<li>Settings page at Media → Replacement Settings</li>
<li>Storage stats: total revisions, total disk usage, database table status</li>
<li>Optional deactivation cleanup (files and/or database)</li>
</ul>
Multisite-ready
<ul>
<li>Network-activate only on multisite — one consistent configuration across every site</li>
<li>Settings live at Network Admin → Settings → Media Replacement and apply network-wide</li>
<li>Revisions are stored per-site under each site’s uploads directory; metadata lives in a single shared network table</li>
<li>Daily retention cleanup runs across every site in the network</li>
<li>Automatic row and file cleanup when a site is deleted</li>
<li>Single-site installs work exactly as before — settings and storage stay per-site, no network behavior involved</li>
</ul>
WP-CLI
<ul>
<li><code>wp smr db check</code> — verify the revisions table exists (non-zero exit code if missing, safe for CI pipelines)</li>
<li><code>wp smr db repair</code> — recreate the table if missing; idempotent, safe to run when the table already exists</li>
<li><code>wp smr db status</code> — revision counts and storage usage; <code>--network</code> for a per-site breakdown on multisite</li>
<li><code>wp smr db cleanup</code> — delete expired revisions immediately, with <code>--dry-run</code> to preview and <code>--network</code> for all sites</li>
</ul>
Other
<ul>
<li>Self-healing database table via configurable scheduled check (hourly, daily, weekly, or disabled); use <code>wp smr db repair</code> for on-demand recovery</li>
<li>Developer hooks throughout for custom integrations</li>
</ul>
<h4>Privacy</h4>
This plugin is fully self-contained and respects your privacy:
<ul>
<li>Does not collect or transmit any user data</li>
<li>Does not use cookies or third-party tracking</li>
<li>Only processes files locally on your server</li>
<li>Does not communicate with external services or APIs</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<h4>From the Media Library</h4>
<ol>
<li>Navigate to the WordPress Media Library</li>
<li>Open the file you want to replace (click on it, or use the row actions in list view)</li>
<li>Click Replace File</li>
<li>Choose your new file — if revisions are enabled, you’ll be prompted for an optional note and version type (minor/major)</li>
<li>The replacement happens immediately, preserving the file’s URL</li>
</ol>
<h4>From the block editor</h4>
<ol>
<li>Click on any media block (image, cover, video, audio, file, gallery, etc.)</li>
<li>Open the Replace toolbar dropdown</li>
<li>Choose Update existing file</li>
<li>Pick your new file — the editor refreshes in place</li>
</ol>
<h4>Viewing and managing revisions</h4>
<ul>
<li>In the Media Library list view, the Revisions row action opens the full revision history for that file</li>
<li>On the attachment edit screen, the View Revisions button opens the same panel</li>
<li>From either, you can download any past version individually or as a ZIP, and restore any revision with one click</li>
</ul>

Smart Media Replacement

Replace media files in place — same URL, new content, no broken links. Includes versioned revision history with one-click rollback.

Brice Capobianco

Let you delete your posts revisions individually or all at once (purge or bulk action). Compatible with Gutenberg (experimental) and classic editor.
<h4>What does it do?</h4>
Simple Revisions Delete adds a discreet link within a post submit box to let you purge (delete) its revisions via AJAX. Bulk actions also available.
It helps you keep a clean database by removing unnecessary posts revisions. Unlike other similar plugins, it lets you delete only specific posts revisions, not all your site revisions at once. 
The plugin is perfectly integrated in the WordPress back-end, and uses native core functions to safely delete revisions. 
It is very lightweight, very simple to use, and just does the job!
<h4>How does it work?</h4>
The plugin adds a discreet link in the post submit box, next to the default revisions counter (see screenshots section). 
When you click on it, it will purge the appropriate post revisions via AJAX (no JS is also support). 
It also add a new bulk action option in the post/page row view to let you purge revisions of multiple posts at once.
<h4>What’s new?</h4>
Since v2 you can now purge all your posts revisions from within the Gutenberg editor. 
Keep in mind that this feature is experimental. I haven’t yet find any way to make it works in a proper way with the current block editor available methods. I’m using jQuery (and AJAX) which is pretty much a hack (a workaround) and not a clean method considering the langages using by the Block Editor.
Since v1.3 you can delete a single revision at once (see screenshots).
<a href="http://b-website.com/simple-revisions-delete-free-wordpress-plugin" title="Plugin page" rel="nofollow ugc">See plugin page</a>
NOTE: There is no admin page for this plugin – none is needed.
<h4>Post Types support</h4>
The default supported post types are post and page, but you can easily add custom post types or remove default post types with the following hook:
<pre><code>function bweb_wpsrd_add_post_types( $postTypes ){
 $postTypes[] = 'additional-cpt';
 $postTypes[] = 'another-cpt';
 return $postTypes;
}
add_filter( 'wpsrd_post_types_list', 'bweb_wpsrd_add_post_types' );
</code></pre>
See CODEX to add support to all CPTs: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_types
<h4>Custom user capability</h4>
The default capability to purge or remove rivisions is delete_post, but you can override this with the following hook:
<pre><code>function bweb_wpsrd_capability() {
 return 'edit_post';
}
add_filter('wpsrd_capability', 'bweb_wpsrd_capability');
</code></pre>
<h4>Languages</h4>
The plugin only bears a few sentences, but you can easily translate them through .MO & .PO files. Currently available languages are:
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>Deutsch – Thanks to <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mallard66" title="mallard66" rel="nofollow ugc">mallard66</a></li>
<li>Dutch – Thanks to <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jondor" title="jondor" rel="nofollow ugc">jondor</a></li>
</ul>
Become a translator and send me your translation! <a href="http://b-website.com/contact" title="Contact" rel="nofollow ugc">Contact-me</a>
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Please ask for help or report bugs if anything goes wrong. It is the best way to make the community benefit!

Simple Revisions Delete


Installed and activated on WordPress 6.2.2, opened a page in the block editor and clicked Purge. Done.



A really clean implementation of this feature. Very nice work @brikou!



When you get a chance, give it a test run yourself in WordPress 6.3 and update the Tested up to header. This shouldn't be missed out on because of a "Has not been tested with your version of WordPress" message!


Clean and simple

Simple Revisions Delete adds a discreet link within a post submit box to let you purge (delete) its revisions via AJAX. Bulk actions also available.

Smart Media Replacement vs Simple Revisions Delete