Title: WP Revisions Control
Author: Erick Hitter
Published: <strong>Июль 2, 2013</strong>
Last modified: Июль 3, 2025

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# WP Revisions Control

 By [Erick Hitter](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ethitter/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-revisions-control.1.4.4.zip)

 * [Details](https://os.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-revisions-control/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://os.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-revisions-control/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://os.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-revisions-control/#installation)
 * [Development](https://os.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-revisions-control/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-revisions-control/)

## Description

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](http://www.webhostinghub.com/), 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.**

## 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.

## Installation

 1. Upload wp-revisions-control to /wp-content/plugins/.
 2. Activate plugin through the WordPress Plugins menu.
 3. Go to **Settings > Writing** and set the options under **WP Revisions Control**.

## FAQ

### Where do I change the plugin’s settings?

Navigate to **Settings > Writing** in your WordPress Dashboard, and look for the**
WP Revisions Control** section.

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/74064d3aef759e3224942e086cbc3d888d8c98d22a37fb82bdfd7f815725469b?
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### 󠀁[Naoya WAtanabe](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/naoya-watanabe/)󠁿

 [naoya0watanabe0](https://profiles.wordpress.org/naoya0watanabe0/) Сентябрь 25,
2025

すご良いプラグインです。

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### 󠀁[Brilliant!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brilliant-1672/)󠁿

 [neotek9](https://profiles.wordpress.org/neotek9/) Август 23, 2025

As a non-professional web developer I really appreciate having this plugin. It’s
saved my bacon on a number of occasions when I’ve stuffed up, or some random corruption
has occured. Thank you.

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### 󠀁[Effective Plugin Bypass WP_POST_REVISIONS limit set by Managed Hosting Provider](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/effective-plugin-bypass-wp_post_revisions-limit-set-by-managed-hosting-provider/)󠁿

 [z2lai](https://profiles.wordpress.org/z2lai/) Ноябрь 4, 2022

Was looking for a solution to bypass the WP_POST_REVISIONS limit and this worked
great for that, also added the functionality for setting revision limits by post
type!

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0771f018c5c481aecb62b5789070e663f32e747831b01c657b7246e43dc9ed21?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Indispensable](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indispensable-237/)󠁿

 [dmsr](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dmsr/) Июль 22, 2022

Installée sur tous mes sites!

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Simple and effective](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-and-effective-1223/)󠁿

 [krascsenitsg](https://profiles.wordpress.org/krascsenitsg/) Декабрь 5, 2020

Very simple and useful.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Useful and Effective](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/useful-and-effective-2/)󠁿

 [0builder](https://profiles.wordpress.org/0builder/) Июль 5, 2020

Does the job 🙂

 [ Read all 13 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-revisions-control/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“WP Revisions Control” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Erick Hitter ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ethitter/)

“WP Revisions Control” has been translated into 3 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-revisions-control/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “WP Revisions Control” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-revisions-control)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-revisions-control/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-revisions-control/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-revisions-control/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-revisions-control/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.4.4

 * Fix error displayed in block editor when post type doesn’t support revisions.

#### 1.4.3

 * Fix translations in block editor.

#### 1.4.2

 * Fix notice appearing on Widgets Block Editor.

#### 1.4.1

 * Update translation text domain to `wp-revisions-control`, conforming to WordPress
   standards.
 * Add Polish translation thanks to [Maciej Gryniuk](https://github.com/odie2).

#### 1.4

 * Introduce block-editor (Gutenberg) sidebar component for supported post types.

#### 1.3

 * Add bulk actions to purge excess or all revisions.
 * Introduce unit tests.
 * Conform to coding standards.

#### 1.2.1

 * Introduce Spanish translation thanks to Maria Ramos at [WebHostingHub](http://www.webhostinghub.com/).

#### 1.2

 * Add post-level revision purging and limiting. For any post type that supports
   revisions, you can now limit the number of revisions retained at a post level.

#### 1.0

 * Initial public release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.4.4**
 *  Last updated **10 months ago**
 *  Active installations **40,000+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.6 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.8.5**
 *  PHP version ** 5.6 or higher **
 *  Languages
 * [Chinese (Taiwan)](https://tw.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-revisions-control/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-revisions-control/),
   [Japanese](https://ja.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-revisions-control/), and [Swedish](https://sv.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-revisions-control/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-revisions-control)
 * Tags
 * [admin](https://os.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[revision](https://os.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/revision/)
   [revisions](https://os.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/revisions/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://os.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-revisions-control/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.7 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Erick Hitter ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ethitter/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-revisions-control/)

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