Extend your Revisions: Add important fields like "Permalink" or "Status" to the revisions for a better Content Management.
As of April 2026, Better Revisions is a WordPress history plugin with 90 active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 8.8K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.4+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 2 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Simple History – Track, Log, and Audit….
Revisions are a main part of every content management system.
Normal wordpress revisions only containing the title, content and excerpt. And WordPress by itself will only add a new revision, when one (or more) of these three fields were changed. This means, if someone only changes the permalink for example, then WordPress doesn’t add any revision. And if someone changes the content and maybe the author, then WordPress adds a revision, but only with the old content – the author change will be lost.
For small blogs this will be ok, but what’s about multi-author websites or blogs?
I wrote this small plugin for you – for a better revision management in multi-author blogs and sites, for better monitoring the changes of every site, post or custom-post-type and finally fo…
| WordPress | 4.4+ requiredTested up to 6.2.0 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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