If you are like me then it is unlikely that most posts go live the way that you type them up the first time. More likely it is that there are several revisions before you are happy and finally allow your work to go live.

And if each of these is saved as a version by WordPress, then you potentiall have quite a few copies of every post and this leads to a full database. Not only could this hit your database limits, but it is making it possible that with too many posts in your posts table, your response time could be affected and pages take a bit longer to load.

Now, I have never actually noticed pages slowing because of huge databases, but I do have to carefully manage my databases to keep them within my hosting limits. So finding and installing Revision Diet was a great step to me!

This excellent little plugin does a simple job – you tell it how many revisions of each post to keep and then ever time you add a new post revision, any extra revisions are deleted. There is also an option when you activate it to trim all extra revisions that currently exist (not something that happens automatically).

The only posts it cannot delete are the WordPress auto saves, but you can either manually delete these or just suffer a few odd extra records. But to me, deleting all of the extra revisions and just keeping a handful of each is a great space saver. Most posts probably don’t get up to 5 revisions, but those that do are cleaned up.

Right, time to save this and then review and create those extras and put the plugin into action!

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