I’ve found another useful little plugin that has just halved the database space used by one of my larger blogs!

It is called Revision Delete! It is quite simple to use and install and I am using it in partnership with Revision Diet. What the Revision Diet plugin is to delete extra revisions.

For example, if you save 10 updates of the post as you are writing it then they are all saved on your database. If you realise you have made a mistake, you can roll back to an earlier save. But this means there is a lot of space used. So Revision Diet deletes the extra revisions, allowing you to just maintain enough revisions in case you have to roll back a mistake.

However, once you have finished updating the post why do you need the revisions? That is where Revision Delete! comes in. You can set it to delete the revisions of old posts and by doing so you really tidy up the database, the space that it uses and hopefully your access time.

You probably could just use Revision Delete on its own if you wanted to, but for maximum tidiness, I like to use both of them.