Comments on: How to Delete Existing WordPress Post Revisions Stored/Saved

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:31:33 +0000

Thanks for this, dead simple, but dead useful!

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By: Maik

Maik — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:24:06 +0000

Nice post, but u can use the plugin Revision Delete! for this problem . This wp plugin delete automatic all old revisions in db than older as x days.

By: Ewen

Ewen — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:20:43 +0000

Here’s an easier way – add
define(’WP_POST_REVISIONS’,6);
to your wp-config.php file. change the 6 to however many revisions you want or -1 to keep them all. Wordpress will delete the surplus revisions next time you save the post / page.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Revision_Management

By: Jusn Sebastián Echeverry

Jusn Sebastián Echeverry — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:39:49 +0000

¡Muchas gracias! Fue de gran ayuda.
Thank you soo much! It was helpful.

By: Neil Duckett

Neil Duckett — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:56:44 +0000

Can`t for te life of me get DELETE FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = “revision”; to work.

By: Duality

Duality — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:40:13 +0000

thanks man i need it

By: deals

deals — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:05:26 +0000

Great Guide!!!

Seriously, I have one blog that is over 2 years old, that blog has seen more than it’s fair share of revisions and updates, thus the revision history was pretty clogged up. I turned this feature off, but didn’t know how to delete the history, which mean’t the mysql database was horrible!

I only noticed as I forgot my password recently (ooops!) and had to pop into phpmyadmin to reset it, whilst there, well, lets just say I am going to print off your instructions, and clear the mess up a bit! – Nice one, thanks so much for the tips!!!

JOhn.

By: David July

David July — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:43:41 +0000

Excellent! Thank you for this and your tip to disable the WordPress revision feature entirely.

By: Anak Balita

Anak Balita — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:22:56 +0000

thats good info

thx

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By: Chlankboot

Chlankboot — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:55:19 +0000

Salut,
Ce n’est pas suffisant, il y a deux autres tables affectees par l’autosave (wp_term_relationships et wp_postmeta), le code complet serait:

delete x,y,z from wp_posts x left join wp_term_relationships y on (x.id = y.object_id) left join wp_postmeta z on (x.id = z.post_id) where x.post_type = 'revision'

By: Vardis

Vardis — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:02:27 +0000

Great tip!

By: deuts

deuts — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:34:44 +0000

I don’t need the post revision feature either, as I’m the only author of my blog. Thanks for this tip.

By: Abeon Tech

Abeon Tech — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:57:23 +0000

Great tip!

The revisions take up a huge amount of space when editing posts.

I installed a new skin and had to edit each post to match….. twice the database size

Thanks for this tip, very useful!