Whenever you write a post or page, several revisions will be stored in the database when you save or WordPress automatically saves for you. This can take up a lot of unnecessary room in your database. Especially if you have a lot of posts/pages and hit save a lot.
For most of us, these revisions are unneeded, especially on published posts.
I came across a plugin for WordPress today, which cleans up those revisions for you, without touching drafts, currently published and scheduled posts.
I tested it now right before I wrote this entry, and according to it my stats are:
You have 171 posts.
Since you started using Better Delete Revision, 1108 redundant post revisions have been removed!
That’s a lot of revisions!
So check out the Better Delete Revisions Manager plugin if you have a WordPress blog now, and do some digital spring cleaning!
Blog Tips — Subscribe to comments!
One of those things I really like on blogs is the ability to subscribe to follow-up comments. Often I comment on a random entry I find linked to in another community perhaps, and I won’t know if someone else or the author, replies to my comment because I can’t subscribe to the comments, and I certainly won’t check the site/blog entry every day to see if there are any replies to my comment.
I can of course subscribe to the comment feed, but that’ll just clutter my feed reader. Instead installing a plugin that allows users to subscribe to follow-up comments allows them to more easily take part, and can make them come back, when they actively see that there are replies to the entry they commented on.
One such plugin, which I personally use, is: Subscribe To Comments. When the commenter checks this box, s/he will get an email notifying them that there are new comments on that particular entry. This requires minimal effort from the user, all s/he has to do is check a box and that’s that.
And removing your subscription is just as easy.
When you leave a comment, what’s your preferred way of checking for replies?