Michael Sablone

<p>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.</p>
<p>In addition, our plugin enhances the admin dashboard with an analytics feature to generate visual representations of revision history data.</p>
<h3>Key Features:</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Intelligent Age-Based Management</strong>: Preserve your site’s history by automatically deleting revisions past a certain age, keeping only the recent and relevant changes.</li>
<li><strong>Seamless On-Save Cleanup</strong>: The plugin intuitively removes outdated revisions upon saving posts, based on the age criteria you’ve set, without disrupting the creative process.</li>
<li><strong>Optional Automated Cleanup</strong>: 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><strong>Dashboard Analytics</strong>: Visualize your site’s revision cleanup activity with an integrated chart, powered by Google’s Chart API.</li>
<li><strong>Fully Customizable</strong>: 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>
</ul>
<p>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.</p>


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.

Jon Christopher

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NerdPress

Colin Devroe

<p>NerdPress has adopted Optimize Database After Deleting Revisions! <a href="https://www.nerdpress.net/announcing-optimize-database/" rel="nofollow ugc">Read the announcement here.</a></p>
<p>This plugin is a ‘One Click’ WordPress database cleaner & optimizer, with precise revision cleanup and flexible scheduling.</p>
<h4>Main Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Deletes revisions of posts, pages and / or custom post types (you optionally can keep an ‘x’-amount of the most recent revisions and you can choose to delete revisions older than…)</li>
<li>Deletes trashed posts, pages and comments (optional)</li>
<li>Deletes spammed comments (optional)</li>
<li>Deletes unused tags (optional)</li>
<li>Deletes ‘expired or all transients’ (optional)</li>
<li>Deletes ‘pingbacks’ and ‘trackbacks’ (optional)</li>
<li>Clears the ‘OEMBED cache’ (optional)</li>
<li>Deletes ‘orphan postmeta items’</li>
<li>Optimizes the database tables (optionally you can exclude certain tables, or even specific posts/pages, from optimization)</li>
<li>Creates a log of the optimizations (optional)</li>
<li>Optimization can be scheduled to automatically run once hourly, twice daily, once daily or once weekly at a specific time (optional)</li>
<li>‘Optimize DB (1 click)’ link in the admin bar (optional)</li>
<li>‘Optimize Database’ Icon in the admin menu (optional)</li>
<li>MULTISITE compatible: optimizes all sites in the network with one click</li>
</ul>
<h4>Settings</h4>
<p>You can find the settings page in the WP Admin Panel » Optimize Database -or- via the WP Admin Panel » Optimize Database icon (depends on settings)</p>
<h4>Excluding specific posts/pages from deleting revisions</h4>
<p>If you want to keep revisions for a specific post/page (no matter what the other settings are), create a custom field named ‘keep_revisions’ for that post/page and give it the value ‘Y’</p>
<h4>Starting the Analysis / Optimization</h4>
<p>You can start the Optimization in the WP Admin Panel » Optimize Database.<br />
Note: if you use the Scheduler the Optimization will run automatically!<br />
Note: you also can click the ‘Optimize DB (1 click)’ link in the admin bar (if enabled)<br />
You can click one of the following buttons:<br />
‘Analyze (summary): analyzes the database and gives the count of what will be cleaned<br />
‘Analyze (detail): analyzes the database and gives a detailed report of what will be deleted<br />
‘Optimize (summary): actually deletes the items and gives the count of what has been deleted<br />
‘Optimize (detail): actually deletes the items and gives a detailed report of what has been deleted</p>
<h4>Multisite Support</h4>
<ul>
<li>Install the plugin as Network Administrator (Network Admin » Plugins)</li>
<li>‘Network Activate’ the plugin</li>
<li>You only can configure and run the plugin on the main network site, but it will optimize ALL the sub-sites too!</li>
</ul>
<h4>Running the plug in from a Unix crontab</h4>
<p>In case you cannot use WPCron, but you can edit the Unix crontab:</p>
<p>Create a .php file, in the root directory of your site, with:<br />
<?php<br />
define(‘RUN_OPTIMIZE_DATABASE’, true);<br />
require_once(‘wp-load.php’);<br />
?></p>
<p>Then, start the .php file from your crontab!</p>
<h4>Supported languages</h4>
<ul>
<li>Belarus [be_BY] – translated by Natasha – https://www.ustarcash.com/ – keyword UStarCash</li>
<li>Danish [da_DK] – translated by Alexander Leo-Hansen – http://alexanderleohansen.dk</li>
<li>Dutch [nl_NL] – translated by Rolf van Gelder, CAGE Web Design – http://cagewebdev.com</li>
<li>English [en_US] – translated by Rolf van Gelder, CAGE Web Design – http://cagewebdev.com</li>
<li>French [fr_FR] – translated by Guillaume Blet – http://www.mycinetheque.fr</li>
<li>German [de_DE] – translated by Kolja Spyra</li>
<li>Indonesian [id_ID] – translated by ChameleonJohn.com</li>
<li>Italian [it_IT] – translated by Fabio Marzocca</li>
<li>Persian [fa_IR] – translated by Milad Mordi, http://seodaramal.ir</li>
<li>Portuguese [po_BR] – translated by Rede Sul Mineira de Comunicações</li>
<li>Russian [ru_RU] – translated by Vadim Sokhin, PluginZone – http://pluginzone.ru</li>
<li>Serbian [sr_RS] – translated by Ogi Djuraskovic, FirstSiteGuide  – http://firstsiteguide.com</li>
<li>Swedish [sv_SE] – translated by P.E.</li>
<li>Turkish [tr_TR] – translated by Keremcan Buyuktaskin</li>
<li>Ukranian [uk_UA] – translated by Anna Goriacha, Coupofy – http://coupofy.com</li>
</ul>
<h4>Disclaimer</h4>
<p>NO WARRANTY, USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK! MAKE BACKUPS FIRST!</p>


Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

In principle this would be an excellent plugin but it always leads in time-out errors. In our view, the problem lies with the execution of the optimization process itself. There is no safeguard against time-out errors. This should be fixed as there must be better ways to code this. 

Good plugin but leads to ongoing time-out errors


Plugin works exactly as described. Thanks! It was easy to configure and I especially like the ability to remove all revisions except for XX amount, which makes it great for cleaning up existing sites where you've reduced the number of revisions, but the database still contains heaps of older revisions.


Easy to use with great results

One-click database optimization with precise revision cleanup and flexible scheduling. Speeding up sites since 2011!

Time-based Revision Cleanup vs Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions