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WP Revisions Control

by Erick Hitter · Admin & Utilities

Also makes 10 other plugins · 47.9K+ installs across the portfolio →

Control how many revisions are stored for each post type.

⚠ Stale
How scoring works →
69 Health · C
Maintenance 56/100
Rating quality 84/100
Support 70/100

69 health vs 54 average across 3,791 Admin & Utilities plugins

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

78 / 100

Well optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 63/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 68/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 418 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,421 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+5% vs prior 30d
74Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

1.9K

now · peak 27.3K

1.9K30d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

WP Revisions Control · #807 you WP Revisions Limit · #7493 Thin Out Revisions · #7537 Revision Control · #837

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.7Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

47per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

1.1y ago

latest release · v1.4.4

8

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.4.4 · 1.1y ago1.4.3 · 4.2y ago1.4.2 · 4.2y ago1.4.1 · 4.2y ago1.4 · 4.2y ago1.3 · 4.5y ago1.2.1 · 7.4y ago1.0 · 13.2y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 95% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.4 95%
Older / other versions 5.4%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “40K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
40K–50K ≈49K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2015-03-22 · 1,452 observations

40KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price.

Details

Version
1.4.4
Last updated
1.1y ago
Added
2013-07-02 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
3.6
Tested up to
6.8.8
Requires PHP
5.6

Recent reviews

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  1. naoya0watanabe0
    11mo ago

    すご良いプラグインです。

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  2. neotek9
    1.0y ago

    As a non-professional web developer I really appreciate having this plugin. It’s saved my bacon on a number of occasions when I’ve stuffed up, or some random corruption has occured. Thank you.

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  3. z2lai
    3.8y ago

    Was looking for a solution to bypass the WP_POST_REVISIONS limit and this worked great for that, also added the functionality for setting revision limits by post type!

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  4. dmsr
    4.1y ago

    Installée sur tous mes sites!

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  5. krascsenitsg
    5.7y ago

    Very simple and useful.

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  6. 0builder
    6.1y ago

    Does the job 🙂

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  7. takaacstamaas
    6.9y ago

    No need for frequent DB cleaning any more. Thanks!

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  8. glas
    7.2y ago

    Всё работает, только польза.

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 1.4.4 Fix error displayed in block editor when post type doesn’t support revisions. 1.4.4
  2. Version 1.4.3 Fix translations in block editor. 1.4.3
  3. Version 1.4.2 Fix notice appearing on Widgets Block Editor. 1.4.2
  4. Version 1.4.1 Update translation text domain to wp-revisions-control , conforming to WordPress standards. Add Polish translation thanks to Maciej Gryniuk . 1.4.1
  5. Version 1.4 Introduce block-editor (Gutenberg) sidebar component for supported post types. 1.4
  6. Version 1.3 Add bulk actions to purge excess or all revisions. Introduce unit tests. Conform to coding standards. 1.3

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.8.1

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 6 languages, 3 at 90% or more

Chinese (Taiwan) 100%
Japanese 100%
Swedish 91%
Dutch 57%
Dutch (Belgium) 57%
Spanish (Spain) 20%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-05-12 50K+ → 40K+ down after 791 days in tier
  2. 2023-03-13 40K+ → 50K+ up

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).

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