Clean out old revisions!

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8 years ago

I know it has only been a couple weeks since PJGermain wrote his original post on this plugin but a lot of information disappears once it is no longer listed as "unanswered" or "popular". PJ's post should be bookmarked by everyone so that you can remember the plugin.

https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/pjgermain/blog/wordpress-tip-getting-rid-of-your-past

In PJ's post he recommends a WordPress plugin that you can install (and then delete) that will primarily remove old post and page revisions. It also has some other "cleaning" functions. The plugin is called "Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions" and can be checked out at:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/rvg-optimize-database/

Anyway, I have young sites but I am a packrat and a fiddler. I breed revisions like rabbits! I just ran this plugin on one of my sites and it deleted just under 200 past revision copies and decreased my load time by roughly 65%. That is huge.

Again, all thanks to PJ! Folks should bookmark his post and use this great tool!

Brad

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Ericabried

8 years ago

Thanks Brad. I missed that training so I'm going to bookmark it now.

GeoffGS

8 years ago

Thanks. I will need that. Geoff.

BradNY

8 years ago

We all do. We just forget to do the cleaning.

Pisquali

8 years ago

Thanks Brad, I missed this and sure could use it.

BradNY

8 years ago

No problem. I create so much clutter I am going to add a note to my calendar to use it every month.

KarenDemers

8 years ago

Brad...thanks for writing this! I was unaware that I could delete old revisions and I have a ton of them. Thank you so much.
Karen

BradNY

8 years ago

You should clog your load speed before and after just to see the acceleration. -- Brad

KarenDemers

8 years ago

How do I do that?!? You're not going to believe this but I deleted old revisions yesterday after reading your post...over 1,000! Unbelievable

AngelBcn

8 years ago

I have used this plugin when PJ fist wrote about it.
Great one!

PjGermain

8 years ago

Excellent! Thanks Brad!

BradNY

8 years ago

I wish there was an easier way to keep highly useful posts in view! --

Anyway, thank you for the original post. Amazing increase in load speed for me based on that plugin.

Brad

FrankT1

8 years ago

Thanks Brad for reminding me.

BradNY

8 years ago

no problem. My main site had slowed down to a crawl -- 15 seconds to load front page. That is when I remembered this plugin. Made a big difference. -- Brad

MatteoMeli

8 years ago

This is very useful, I too have around 200 revisions! Thank you Brad

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