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.
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.
Let you delete your posts revisions individually or all at once (purge or bulk action). Compatible with Gutenberg (experimental) and classic editor.
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!
The plugin adds a discreet link in the post submit box, next to the default revisions…
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? 🙂
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
Simple but Efficace !
Thanks a lot to share this plugin Brice. It´s very helpful. Nice work!!!
Alex
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.
| WordPress | 3.5+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.5.12+ required |
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