Wordpress Tip - Delete Post Revisions

You may or may not know that every few minutes Wordpress makes a revision of a post/page that you are working on in case you ever want to revert back to a prior version. But if you are like me and make changes to your Wordpress site quite often, then all of these revisions will start to build up and eventually accumulated a decent amount of space in your database. This will end up slowing down load times for your site which won't make your visitors very happy if it takes more than a few seconds.

So what is the solution you may ask. A plugin called "Better Delete Revision".

Install Plugin

Go to your Admin Control Panel and go to the Plugin menu
Click the Add New link
Type "Better Delete Revision" in the Search Field and click the Search Plugins button
Click on the Install Now link for the "Better Delete Revision" plugin
Click the OK button on the popup that asks "Are you sure you want to install this plugin?"
On the new page, click the Activate Plugin link

Using Better Delete Revision

Click on the Settings menu
Scroll down and click on the Better Delete Revision link
Click the Check Revision Posts button
On the new page you will see a list of your revisions. Click the Yes, I would like to delete them! button

I recommend running this plugin at least once a week, if not more depending on how often you make changes to your site.