Enables flexible revision management for you.
As of April 2026, Thin Out Revisions is a WordPress admin plugin with 800 active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 15 reviews. It has been downloaded 38K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 10 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Loginizer.
As its default behavior, WordPress makes a new revision when you update your post.
This also happens when you do a preview before publication.
This is too often even if you like revision control. Thin Out Revisions (TOR), a plugin
for WordPress, will help you to keep unwanted revisions out.
You can remove intermediate revisions during comparing in ‘compare two revisions’ mode in revision.php. To do it, simply press the ‘Thin Out’ button (fig. 1 in the screenshots page).
And you can also remove each single revision from the Edit Post/Page screen (fig. 2).
WordPress 3.5 and prior, which have an old revision screen, are no longer supported.
If you are a careful author, I guess you have many revisions as a result of previe…
| WordPress | 3.6+ requiredTested up to 4.2.39 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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