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Revision Retention

Name: Revision Retention
Author: Acato

Keep the newest revisions of every post and drop the ones older than a threshold you set. Per post type, on a schedule or from WP-CLI.

Revision Retention ranks #61,538 among WordPress.org plugins with 1+ active installations, is #2,723 of 4,622 in the Security category, a 1/5 rating from 0 reviews, and was last updated Sep 24, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v1.1.0 Current Version v1.1.0

Updated 9 hours ago Last Update on 24 Sep, 2026

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.1.0
Last Updated: Sep 24, 2026
Requires WP: 6.7+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: N/A
Author: Acato

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Revision Retention

Not if it is one of the newest ones you asked to keep. The Always keep floor is applied per post and is never crossed on age. Press Preview first if you want to see the exact number before anything is deleted.

No. Revisions are deleted the same way WordPress deletes them, permanently. That is why Preview and the --dry-run flag exist, and why the plugin ships with a conservative default of keeping the newest five.

No. Autosaves are excluded from every query the sweep makes.

A sweep only has work to do for a post type with an age threshold. With Remove older than set to Never the plugin only caps the count on save, which is WordPress's own behaviour, and there is nothing to clean up afterwards. wp revision-retention post-types shows the rule in effect for each one.

It works through a configurable number of posts per batch and books the next batch itself, so each run stays short. Lower Posts per batch if the runs are still too heavy. I enabled revisions for a post type but see nothing. Revisions start being recorded from the next time such a post is saved. Nothing can recover a history that was never stored.

Yes. The Always keep number is handed to WordPress through wp_revisions_to_keep, so it caps revisions as posts are saved whether or not a sweep ever runs.

Translations are managed on translate.wordpress.org and are downloaded by WordPress automatically. The plugin ships a .pot template for translators, but no locale files of its own.