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Simple Revisions Delete

Simple Revisions Delete adds a discreet link within a post submit box to let you purge (delete) its revisions via AJAX. Bulk actions also available.

By Brice Capobianco·Purge·Free
4.9(48 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 4 months ago
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As of April 2026, Simple Revisions Delete is a WordPress Purge plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 48 reviews. It has been downloaded 183K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5+ and PHP 5.5.12+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Clear Cache for Me.

4.9/548 reviews
10K+active installs
183K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015

Overview

Let you delete your posts revisions individually or all at once (purge or bulk action). Compatible with Gutenberg (experimental) and classic editor.

What does it do?

Simple Revisions Delete adds a discreet link within a post submit box to let you purge (delete) its revisions via AJAX. Bulk actions also available.

It helps you keep a clean database by removing unnecessary posts revisions. Unlike other similar plugins, it lets you delete only specific posts revisions, not all your site revisions at once.
The plugin is perfectly integrated in the WordPress back-end, and uses native core functions to safely delete revisions.
It is very lightweight, very simple to use, and just does the job!

How does it work?

The plugin adds a discreet link in the post submit box, next to the default revisions…

Read full description on WordPress.org

Screenshots

Ratings & Reviews

4.948 reviews
5 ★
46
4 ★
1
3 ★
0
2 ★
0
1 ★
1

Recent Reviews

Awesome plugin, very useful!
by ldwd·3 months ago

I have been using this plugin for years on several sites. A real must have! Simple and works out of the box 🙂

Recently it is also working with Avada theme, great!

Thank you!

PS One small feature request: if possible could you add a check when clicking the purge all link? Like a pop-up that asks Are you sure? 🙂

Does not work after disable plugin
by sgmmaffe·1 year ago·2 replies

Plugins seams to work great… at the begin. You remove all history.
Then when job done, i deactivate the plugin. And all posts and history is back? 🙁
Strange he? Did he realy delete it

  • This topic was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by sgmmaffe.
Simple but Efficace
by netdevel·2 years ago

Simple but Efficace !

Very useful plugin
by getmarketingweb·2 years ago

Thanks a lot to share this plugin Brice. It´s very helpful. Nice work!!!

Alex

Potentially very handy but . .
by zondar·2 years ago

But a column doesn’t show up in the Posts listing as shown in the screenshot. Purging all revisions of all posts (as with WP-Optimize) is not a clever idea, but it would be good to trimmed down certain posts to just 1 revision WITHOUT pulling up each post to delete individually. i.e. List view with check box > execute.
Still looking for a plugin that will do this.

Download Trends

Today: 105Yesterday: 107This week: 744Period total: 40K

Compatibility

WordPress3.5+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4
PHP5.5.12+ required

Version Adoption

v1.5
96.8%
v1.4
3.3%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.5.5 – 2025/11/30

  • Tested on WP 6.9 with success!
  • Update readme
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Brice CapobiancoBrice Capobianco
Plugin Info
Version
1.5.5
Last Updated
Nov 30, 2025
WP Requires
3.5+
Tested Up To
6.9.4
PHP Requires
5.5.12+
Active Installs
10K+
Downloads
183K+
Added
Jan 5, 2015
Business
Free

Tags

purgedeletecleanupgutenbergrevisions

Developer

B
Brice Capobianco
3 plugins0.1M+ total installs
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