At top you should have link with all the posts that are in draft if you click on that link you will get all the posts you have not published.
When are on that list select the ones you want to delete and from dropdown select move to trash and and click apply they will moved to trash and then you delete them permanently.
I suspect I did not make myself clear. I want to DELETE the REVISIONS of posts that I have already published, not the drafts.
How would you know which ones are revisions from the published articles.?
Revisions are just database entries. If you feel the need to delete them there are several plugins that can assist if you search the plugins directoy.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=Revision&sort=
My personal favorite ( which means nothing ) http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/delete-revision/
Or, if you have access to phpMyAdmin or the MySQL command line, enter the following query:
DELETE FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = "revision"
Clayton and James, does the fact that they are “just database entries” mean that they really don’t take up much space.
Is this something troublesome if I don’t remove them?
Oh no, they take up quite a bit of space. I ran that query last week and reduced my database size by almost half.
I must admit, I’m a little obsessed with deleting those entries myself. I hate the perception of wasted space. 🙂
Clayton, I downloaded/uploaded your fav delete-revision plug-in. Is this automatic deleting? Do I have to do anything else? The revisions seem to still be there
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Works like a champ for me. (WordPress 3.0.1) Activate the plugin, navigate to Settings > Delete-Revision > Check Redundant Revision, and proceed from there.
English is obviously a second language for the author, but it’s pretty intuitive. After running, my revisions are clean. There is also a database optimization feature – (I’m just lazy like that sometimes!)
🙂
The MySQL command line method that James recommended will provide the same outcome if you prefer not to use a plugin to get the job done.
THX guys .. . done.
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