Michael Sablone

Optimize your website’s performance and streamline your editing workflow with the Time-based Revision Cleanup plugin for WordPress. Our plugin offers a sophisticated solution to the limitations of the default number-based revision system, which can quickly become inadequate for active sites. Instead of restricting revisions to a set count, our plugin allows you to specify a timeframe for keeping revisions, such as 30, 60, or 365 days, ensuring that your database retains only what’s necessary without losing the essential edit history of your posts.
In addition, our plugin enhances the admin dashboard with an analytics feature to generate visual representations of revision history data.
<h3>Key Features:</h3>
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<li>Intelligent Age-Based Management: Preserve your site’s history by automatically deleting revisions past a certain age, keeping only the recent and relevant changes.</li>
<li>Seamless On-Save Cleanup: The plugin intuitively removes outdated revisions upon saving posts, based on the age criteria you’ve set, without disrupting the creative process.</li>
<li>Optional Automated Cleanup: Enable the optional CRON job to perform regular, site-wide revision cleanups at intervals you control, maintaining optimal database health with no manual effort.</li>
<li>Dashboard Analytics: Visualize your site’s revision cleanup activity with an integrated chart, powered by Google’s Chart API.</li>
<li>Fully Customizable: Configure the plugin’s settings to fit the unique demands of your site, including save timeout, CRON frequency, and the maximum number of revisions to process.</li>
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By focusing on time rather than revision count, our plugin addresses the core flaw in the default system, ensuring that a busy day of editing won’t result in the loss of important historical data. With the optional CRON job for hands-free maintenance, adjustable settings for precision control, and insightful analytics, the Time-based Revision Cleanup plugin is an essential tool for maintaining a healthy, efficient WordPress site.

Time-based Revision Cleanup


I installed the Time-Based Revision Cleanup plugin on my site and and it really is a nifty plugin. You can tell the developer knows what he's doing. Really love the chart visualization and the fact that it does the work of keeping my db clean and up-to-date. Thanks for the cool plugin!


Well-designed with the user in mind

Maximize WordPress efficiency with Time-based Revision Cleanup: manage post histories by age, not count, with optional auto-cleanups.

Justin Nealey

First Draft Feed is a WordPress block that renders a single post’s revision history as a readable, chronological feed. Each revision is a “moment” — timestamped, with a visual diff showing what changed. Readers follow the evolution of thinking, not just the finished product.
Who is this for?
<ul>
<li>Writers who work in public and want to expose how their thinking evolved.</li>
<li>Readers who want to follow a post’s development over time like a story.</li>
<li>Site owners who want to control which posts expose their drafts and how much history is visible.</li>
</ul>
How it works
Drop the First Draft Feed block onto any post or page. It renders a feed of that post’s revision history, pulled from a custom REST API endpoint that safely surfaces WordPress revision data without requiring authentication.
Each revision card shows:
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<li>Timestamp — when the revision was saved</li>
<li>Word count delta — e.g. “+ 312 words”</li>
<li>Visual diff — additions and removals highlighted in context, rendered as clean text (no raw HTML diffs)</li>
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The feed loads oldest-to-newest so readers experience the post as it was written.
Features
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<li>Per-post opt-in — revisions are only exposed when the author explicitly enables the feed</li>
<li>Author notes — optional context shown at the top of the feed</li>
<li>Three diff styles — inline, split, or summary view</li>
<li>Image tracking — images in revisions are preserved and diffed alongside text</li>
<li>Collapsible cards — readers expand only what interests them</li>
<li>Max revision limit — cap how many revisions appear (1-50)</li>
<li>Toggle individual elements — show or hide diffs, word counts, and timestamps</li>
<li>Block supports — wide/full alignment, background/text color, spacing, and font size</li>
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<h3>Source Code</h3>
The full source code is available on GitHub:
https://github.com/jnealey88/first-draft-feed

First Draft Feed

Show a post's revision history as a readable, chronological feed.

Time-based Revision Cleanup vs First Draft Feed