Best revision plugins for WordPress
The most popular revision plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. WP Revisions Control leads with 40K+ active installs, ahead of Proofreading (5K+) and Revisionize (4K+). All 41 plugins tagged “revision” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 revision plugins
- 1.WP Revisions Control
The most installed revision plugin, with 40K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 13 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 2.
Proofreading5K+ active installs. Rated 4.0 from 8 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 3.
Revisionize4K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 24 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30.
- 4.
Companion Revision Manager4K+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 5.
Disable Gutenberg Autosave2K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 11 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 6.Simple Revision Control
1K+ active installs. Rated 3.8 from 13 reviews, updated 3 months ago.
- 7.
Limit Revisions1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.1.16.
- 8.Revision Manager TMC
1K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 10 reviews, updated 6 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 9.WP Revisions Limit
800+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.6.30.
- 10.
Thin Out Revisions800+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 15 reviews, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39.
All 41 plugins tagged “revision”
WP Revisions Control
Up in the last 7 days:1#812by Erick Hitter1 year ago
Control how many revisions are stored for each post type.
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rating
- 4.7(13)
- Downloads
- 97/day

Proofreading
Up in the last 7 days:2#3,136by Scribit1 year ago
Proofreading checks texts on every content of your WordPress site. You can proofread in 30 different languages and get tips to improve your writings.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.0(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Revisionize
Up in the last 7 days:5#3,452by jamiechong5 years ago
Draft up revisions of live, published content. The live content doesn't change until you publish the revision manually or with the scheduling system.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.6(24)
- Downloads
- 34/day

Companion Revision Manager
Down in the last 7 days:3#3,477by Papin Schipper1 year ago
Lightweight plugin that allows full control over post revisions.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 20/day

Disable Gutenberg Autosave
Down in the last 7 days:3#4,635by ska-dev2 months ago
Allows to control Gutenberg autosave interval or disable autosave completely.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.4(11)
- Downloads
- 33/day
Simple Revision Control
Down in the last 7 days:17#5,509by iworks (Marcin Pietrzak)3 months ago
Easily control and limit post revisions per post type to keep your WordPress database clean and optimized—no coding required!
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.8(13)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Limit Revisions
Down in the last 7 days:29#5,813by Carlos Martínez Romero3 years ago
This plugin adds a new setting in the last position of Settings > General, this option will allow you to select limit of revisions that WordPress s …
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 13/day
Revision Manager TMC
Down in the last 7 days:40#6,083by themastercut6 months ago
Clone your post, page or custom post type to a draft. Draft up revisions of live, published content. Accept posts. It works with ACF...
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.9(10)
- Downloads
- 27/day
WP Revisions Limit
Up in the last 7 days:30#7,470by Roger Rodrigo10 years ago
Limit the number of revisions stored for your posts. Keep your WordPress fast and your database clean!
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Thin Out Revisions
Down in the last 7 days:16#7,539by blogger32311 years ago
Enables flexible revision management for you.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 4.7(15)
- Downloads
- 11/day

WP Revision Master
Down in the last 7 days:63#7,688by Hasan Shahriar9 years ago
Powerful and best post revision control, compare, restore!
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Gitium
Up in the last 7 days:15#9,488by Presslabs25 days ago
Automatic git version control and deployment for your plugins and themes integrated into wp-admin.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.1(10)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Disable WP Revisions
Down in the last 7 days:65#9,849by Carlos Martínez Romero3 years ago
This plugin removes the revision functionality from WordPress so that any content is deleted permanently.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Last Modified
Up in the last 7 days:8#12,825by Dogan Ucar7 years ago
This plugins adds the last modified date, current revision and the publication date of your post/page. Simply use the shortcode [last_modified_date]
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Revision Cleaner
Down in the last 7 days:88#13,351by Zhuo13 years ago
This plugin will clean up your revisions AUTOMATICALLY (each authors can set their own interval). Once setup, ENJOY your writing.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Super Switch
Down in the last 7 days:93#17,510by crazyloong16 years ago
As you see, these are a set of switches. You can optimize your blog by this.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
revision delete!
Up in the last 7 days:65#17,701by DZVO17 years ago
revision delete!
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Better Revisions
Up in the last 7 days:55#18,321by slehner3 years ago
Extend your Revisions: Add important fields like "Permalink" or "Status" to the revisions for a better Content Management.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Branches For Post
Up in the last 7 days:1,699#20,977by Hao Kexin27 days ago
Create a safe working branch for published WordPress content, review exactly what changed, and merge it back without replacing the public post.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Revisions
Down in the last 7 days:11#25,515by Paul Menard18 years ago
Provide Versioning, Preview and Rollback ability on Pages and Posts.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Drafts of Post Revisions
Up in the last 7 days:43#25,625by daxitude13 years ago
Create drafts of WordPress posts/pages/CPTs even after they've been published
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 4.9(7)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Revision History
Down in the last 7 days:75#27,690by jkeyes17 years ago
Revision History displays the revision history of a post or page, with links to the content of each revision.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Del-Post-Rev
Down in the last 7 days:844#32,302by keksus5 years ago
Delete post revisions
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Last Revision Date Widget
Up in the last 7 days:6,991#36,274by alci196912 years ago
Easily add a last revision date widget to your WordPress site sidebar.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Document Repository
Up in the last 7 days:1,656#41,804by Ron Rennick13 years ago
Turn a WordPress site into a revisioned document repository.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Revision
Up in the last 7 days:5,351#41,916by M A Vinoth Kumar12 years ago
Through this plugin, user can able to show the post revision done on the each post with latest update reason.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Volunteer Project Management
#42,554by codedmind14 years ago
Provides the functionality where registered users can download a project, do some work on that file, and upload it back to the site for revision.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Watchman
Up in the last 7 days:1,967#44,262by Udit Desai11 years ago
Watchman is a WordPress plugin which keeps track of revisions for your posts, pages and custom post types as well.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Limit Revision Publishing
#44,838by Paul Ryan6 months ago
Limit Revision Publishing restricts edits made by users without the publish_{post_type} capability.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day
Post Version Control
Down in the last 7 days:873#46,682by Makis18 years ago
Automatic version control for posts with the same prefix in the post_name
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Revision Workflow
Down in the last 7 days:8,206#46,967by Curtiss Grymala15 years ago
Allows anyone editing a published page or post to draft changes before those modifications go public.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
SVN Zip
#47,138by flashpixx14 years ago
With this plugin a zip download link of a subversion repository can be created within blog articles and pages
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Revision Autopilot
#55,724by Takahiro Nishii1 month ago
Post revision cleanup with three ways in: a screen to review and delete, WP-CLI for scripts and cron, and machine-readable abilities for agents.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

ITMAROON EXTRA SETTINGS
Up in the last 7 days:9,857#58,649by Isamu Takeda1 month ago
A plugin that provides the ability to configure WordPress site settings that are not provided by default in the admin screen using a GUI.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Post Snapshots
Down in the last 7 days:6,280#71,893by Blackbam8 years ago
Create, manage and view snapshots of any post (or custom post type) whenever you want. Like user-managed revisions with a lot of useful functionality.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Little Notes
Down in the last 7 days:21,849#72,416by JRMora2 months ago
Lightweight frontend sticky notes for website revision, alerts, design feedback and notices. Strictly optimized for desktop environments.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Biddut Revision Cleaner
#73,902by Shahriar Ahmed Biddut2 months ago
Smart, Safe & Modern Revision Management for WordPress. Control, clean, and optimize post revisions safely without risking data loss.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day