Thin Out Revisions
Enables flexible revision management for you.
The facts
- Rating
- 4.7★ from 15
- Active installs
- 800+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 6 May 2015
- Added
- Oct 2012
- Requires WP
- 3.6
- Tested up to
- WP 4.2.39
- Downloads
- 38,477
Our analysis
AI-assistedThin Out Revisions is a WordPress plugin designed to help you manage post revisions by removing unwanted ones. It allows you to delete intermediate revisions during the comparison process and offers the option to clean up revisions when you publish your post. You can also bulk erase old revisions either on demand or as a scheduled task.
This plugin is suitable for users who frequently preview their posts and accumulate many revisions, as well as those who want to maintain a cleaner revision history. It includes features for adding notes to revisions and is compatible with multisite environments.
Best for: This plugin suits WordPress users who want to manage and reduce the number of post revisions.
What it does well
- ✓Removes unwanted post revisions
- ✓Allows bulk erasure of old revisions
- ✓Includes a note feature for revisions
- ✓Compatible with multisite environments
Where it falls short
- •Last updated in May 2015
- •Supports WordPress 4.2.39 and earlier only
- •Limited information on additional features
Verdict
Thin Out Revisions provides useful tools for managing post revisions, but its outdated status may limit compatibility with newer WordPress versions.
From the developer
blogger323's own description of Thin Out Revisions, lightly tidied.
Abstract
As its default behavior, WordPress makes a new revision when you update your post.
This also happens when you do a preview before publication.
This is too often even if you like revision control. Thin Out Revisions (TOR), a plugin
for WordPress, will help you to keep unwanted revisions out.
Basic Feature
You can remove intermediate revisions during comparing in ‘compare two revisions’ mode in revision.php. To do it, simply press the ‘Thin Out’ button (fig. 1 in the screenshots page).
And you can also remove each single revision from the Edit Post/Page screen (fig. 2).
WordPress 3.5 and prior, which have an old revision screen, are no longer supported.
When you publish a post
If you are a careful author, I guess you have many revisions as a result of preview checks.
TOR can clean them when you first publish your post.
Just simply enable the following option in the ‘Settings’ – ‘Thin Out Revisions’ admin page (fig. 3).
- Delete revisions on initial publication
Bulk erase of old revisions
You can remove old revisions on the fly or daily as a scheduled task (fig. 3).
Revision Memo
The Revision Memo feature enables you to put a short text note on revisions. See the pictures (fig. 4, 5) in screenshots page.
Make sure that you check the ‘Revision Memo’ screen option in Edit Post (Edit Page) screen.
More to Describe
- TOR works fine in multisite environment.
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