Revision Strike
Periodically purge old post revisions via WP Cron.
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·70 active installs·Updated 8 years agoAs of April 2026, Revision Strike is a WordPress cron plugin with 70 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 5.9K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.2+ and PHP 5.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP Crontrol.
5/51 reviews
70active installs
5.9K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
Unless post revisions are explicitly limited, WordPress will build up a hefty sum of revisions over time. While it’s great to have revision history for some recent content, the chances that old revisions will be necessary diminish the longer a post has been published. Revision Strike is designed to automatically remove these unneeded revisions on older, published posts.
How does it work?
First, a threshold is set, with a default of 30 days. Once a day, Revision Strike will run and find any post revisions in the database attached to published posts with a post date of at least 30 (or your custom threshold) days ago, and “strike” (tear-down and remove) them from the WordPress database.
Contributing
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.2+ requiredTested up to 4.8.28 |
| PHP | 5.4+ required |
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Changelog
For a full list of changes, please see the Change Log in the GitHub repo.
0.6.0
September 16, 2017
- Fixed bug where warnings were being thrown when Revision Strike was being run verbosely via WP-CLI. Props @ivankruchkoff.
- Re-licensed the plugin under the MIT license.
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