Light weight plugin to disable post revisions for selected post types to reduce database and server load.
As of April 2026, Disable Post Revision is a WordPress auto save plugin with 3.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 33K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Downloads are down 24% this week. Top alternative: TGG – WP Optimizer.
WordPress uses post revisions by default to save each post revision in your database. If you’re concerned about server and database size, these post revisions can be a burden.
While you can’t simply disable the post revision feature for a specific post type from the settings page, this plugin makes it easy to do so.
Disabling unwanted post revisions in WordPress should be straightforward. This plugin makes it a simple process.
Disable Post Revision – Features
- Disable post revisions for all available post types, including Posts and Pages
- Reduce database load
- Reduce server load while editing a post
- Translation-ready
- Extremely lightweight
- Adheres to WordPress coding standards
- Available on GitHub
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Does exactly what it says very well. Once we get an option to choose # of revisions, this will be a must have plugin.
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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