BU Versions

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1. ★★★★★ chrisbfinternet

   10.3y ago

   GREAT plugin! I found this after much researching. This answers a question which I can find many people have asked, but no one had the ideal solution. http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/3986/is-there-any-way-to-draft-a-revision-of-a-published-page-or-post-what-workaroun

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2. ★★★★★ Studio Pence

   10.5y ago

   This is a fantastic plugin! Exactly what WordPress should have out of the box. Thank you for the time and development expertise you’ve committed to this plugin!

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3. ★★★★★ Tom Finley

   10.9y ago

   Essential in pushing out updates to critical content without having to play hopscotch with permalink names.

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4. ★★★★★ Ygesit

   12.1y ago

   Thx a lot for this!

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5. ★★★★★ bemdesign

   12.6y ago

   This is a wonderful plugin for managing content edits after initial publishing. You basically clone the content (make a version), make your edits to the clone, and once it’s okay, you “publish” the cloned edit which simply replaces the previous published post. It does this so your content edits don’t happen “live”. It supports other built-in WordPress functionality (revisions) and really feels almost like a core part of WordPress. Recommended. I only ran into one issue: it doesn’t play nice with CodePress’ Admin Columns (http://wordpress.org/plugins/codepress-admin-columns/) as it prevents the CodePress plugin from being able to grab custom fields from your posts to display in the back-end admin screens. Once I disabled Versions the Admin Columns plugin worked correctly.

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6. ★★★★★ coeweb

   13.5y ago

   I’ve downloaded and tested several plugins that attempt to achieve versioning, but this is the only that actually does it – here’s why: My users need to edit “published” items and every plugin only allows the WP review layer to work on “New” posts/pages. Once you hit publish, guess what, no one besides a publish rights user can touch that post again, if you use “User Role Editor” or “Members” (both excellent plugins) you’ll see that if you assign a user to be able to edit published items, they also get the blue “Update” button, so their changes bypass the review layer. This solves that. Support has been good so far, and they’re currently enhancing the documentation to include how-to’s on supporting your custom meta boxes…so all all around awesome job…

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2024-11-24 200+ → 100+ down after 10 days in tier
2. 2024-11-14 100+ → 200+ up after 3 days in tier
3. 2024-11-11 200+ → 100+ down after 23 days in tier
4. 2024-10-19 100+ → 200+ up after 3 days in tier
5. 2024-10-16 200+ → 100+ down after 43 days in tier
6. 2024-09-03 100+ → 200+ up after 5 days in tier
7. 2024-08-29 200+ → 100+ down after 10 days in tier
8. 2024-08-19 100+ → 200+ up after 3 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• WP Rollback – Rollback Plugins and Themes 300K+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag A
• PHP Compatibility Checker 200K+ installs · 2.8★ · 1 shared tag B
• WP Downgrade | Specific Core Version 100K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag D
• Zapier for WordPress 50K+ installs · 2.5★ · 1 shared tag D
• Display PHP Version 30K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag D
• Audit Trail 10K+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag D

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BU Versions: 100+ active installs, 5.0★ (6 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/bu-versions