#846 by installs
Revision Control
Revision Control allows finer control over the Post Revision system included with WordPress
- Installs
- 40,000+
- Rating
- 4.4 (36)
- Updated
- 9 years ago
WP Revisions Control
Control how many revisions are stored for each post type.
- Active installs
- 40,000+
- #812 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 280.1K
- 280,101
- Downloads, 30 days
- 3.2K
- 916 in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5
- 13 reviews
- Last updated
- 16 months ago
- Jul 3, 2025
- Version
- 1.4.4
- 9 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | July 3, 2025Not updated for over a year |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 6.8.12Older than WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 3.6 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 5.6 or newer |
| First published | July 2, 2013 |
| Support, last two months | No threads opened |
Reviews
4.7 / 5 from 13 reviews
| 5 stars | 12 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 0 |
| 3 stars | 0 |
| 2 stars | 0 |
| 1 star | 1 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
WordPress 3.6 allows users to control how many revisions are stored for each supported post type. No longer must you rely on the WP_POST_REVISIONS constant, which applied universally. This plugin provides an interface for this new functionality.
With this plugin enabled, simply visit Settings > Writing to specify the number of revisions retained for each post type.
Why is this helpful? Revisions are stored in the database, and if many are stored, can cause bloat. This bloat may lead to slower queries, which can have a noticeable performance impact. The value of these revisions also depends on what is being tracked. For example, I may want to store every revision of the posts I write, but only desire to keep the latest five versions of each page on my site. Starting in WordPress 3.6, this control is available. WordPress doesn’t provide a native interface to specify revisions quantities, so I wrote this quick plugin to do so.
Thanks to Maria Ramos at WebHostingHub, the plugin is also available in Spanish. Many thanks to her for her efforts!
Development is at https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/wp-revisions-control.
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
Where do I change the plugin’s settings?
Navigate to Settings > Writing in your WordPress Dashboard, and look for the WP Revisions Control section.
Latest changelog entry
- Fix error displayed in block editor when post type doesn’t support revisions.
Screenshots
The plugin's settings section, found under Settings > Writing. 
The post-level controls for the Classic Editor provided in version 1.2. 
The post-level controls for the Block Editor provided in version 1.4.
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin. The author takes donations at their donate page.