WP Revisions Control
Control how many revisions are stored for each post type.
4.7(13 reviews)
·40K+ active installs·Updated 9 months agoAs of April 2026, WP Revisions Control is a WordPress admin plugin with 40K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 13 reviews. It has been downloaded 264K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.6+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Downloads are down 9% this week. Top alternative: Loginizer.
4.7/513 reviews
40K+active installs
264K+total downloads
13 yearssince 2013
Overview
WordPress 3.6 allows users to control how many revisions are stored for each supported post type. No longer must you rely on the WP_POST_REVISIONS constant, which applied universally. This plugin provides an interface for this new functionality.
With this plugin enabled, simply visit Settings > Writing to specify the number of revisions retained for each post type.
Why is this helpful? Revisions are stored in the database, and if many are stored, can cause bloat. This bloat may lead to slower queries, which can have a noticeable performance impact. The value of these revisions also depends on what is being tracked. For example, I may want to store every revision of the posts I write, but only desire to keep the latest five versions of each page on my site. Starting in WordPress 3.6, th…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Naoya WAtanabe
by naoya0watanabe0·6 months ago
すご良いプラグインです。
Brilliant!
by neotek9·7 months ago
As a non-professional web developer I really appreciate having this plugin. It’s saved my bacon on a number of occasions when I’ve stuffed up, or some random corruption has occured.
Thank you.
Effective Plugin Bypass WP_POST_REVISIONS limit set by Managed Hosting Provider
by z2lai·3 years ago
Was looking for a solution to bypass the WP_POST_REVISIONS limit and this worked great for that, also added the functionality for setting revision limits by post type!
Indispensable
by dmsr·3 years ago
Installée sur tous mes sites!
Simple and effective
by krascsenitsg·5 years ago
Very simple and useful.
Download Trends
Today: 66Yesterday: 107This week: 517Period total: 57K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.6+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.4
94.0%
v1.3
5.3%
v1.2
0.6%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.4.4
- Fix error displayed in block editor when post type doesn’t support revisions.
Contributors
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