Comments on: Revision Diet

By: David

David — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:49:19 +0000

I’m glad I could help (and that you found the plugin helpful).

mr.david.miller at gmail

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:44:05 +0000

Dave, It worked!!! Thank you so much. I started out at 55
and worked my way down. Had to go through 10 and under a few times.
I took close to 35mb off my db. What is your email? I would like to
send you a few bucks via paypal. Thanks, Joe

By: David

David — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:00:01 +0000

If you know an upper limit on how many revisions most of your posts have you can set the number of revisions near that and then you should be able to reduce it by at least 5 at a time until you get down where you want to be.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:43:39 +0000

Dave, It timed out on the “20…” I have 446 posts so that
might take a while to do one by one… But I need to get started or
else my host will raise my bill… Thanks for your support.
Joe

By: David

David — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 03:59:04 +0000

What might be happening is that the request to trim revisions is timing out because of the size of your database. It might work if you were to set the number of revision to a high number – perhaps 20 – and then trim excess revisions. Then set the number lower and repeat until you are where you want to be. The other option would be to do each individual post like the one you tested on.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 23:47:41 +0000

I updated a post and all the revisions were deleted save
the post plus 1 revision. But all the other posts remained with
countless their revisions. Joe

By: David

David — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:56:48 +0000

I tested on my site running 3.0.4 and everything seems to be working with “Trim Excess Revisions”. Here is something to try, go into a specific post and make some meaningless update and see if it is reduced to a single revision after you update the post. Let me know if that works for a single post. If it does I might have some ideas.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:27:42 +0000

Dave, Yes, all is correct. But I think I might be a special
case, my DB is almost 100mb. Much of it is revisions. Thanks for
your speedy response. Joe

By: David

David — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:07:51 +0000

Just to be clear, setting the revision to 1 would mean keeping the published version and any autosave version of the post plus one other revision.

When you say 3.4 I assume you mean 3.0.4. If all of the above is accurate I’ll do some testing to see if anything is broken against the latest version of WP.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:01:24 +0000

I set it to keep 1 revision and am using WP 3.4. The latest
version of WP. Thanks, Joe