Limit the number of Wordpress revisions

Wordpress revisions are a great feature, but they can easily bloat the overall size and number of entries in your database, leading to backups that are much larger than they need to be.

A handy plugin is available on Wordpress.org called WP Revisions Control.  It lets you set the number of revisions for pages and posts.  The number can also be set on an individual basis for pages and posts.

The other great thing about this plugin is the "Purge These Revisions" button that appears at the bottom of the post editor.  This can help clean up your homepage or other pages that have countless saved revisions.

 Plugin zip size: 11 KB

A page with too many revisions.  My homepage was worse with about 70 revisions that were bloating the database.

Plugin options under Settings > Writing

Plugin options on individual pages and posts at the bottom of the post editor.