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Simple Revisions Delete
Small and helpful but currently gathering digital dust.
HealthyGrowing
72/100
It provides simple cleanup for individual posts but suffers from neglect and bugs.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.9★
48 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+73%
Growing fast
62 → 107 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORnot updated in 6 months
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +73% in the last year
62/day a year ago→107/day today
Reviews
what people actually saySimple Revisions Delete is praised for its straightforward, per-post revision cleanup but users report occasional bugs, missing bulk features, and compatibility issues.
What people like
- +Simple and easy to use, works out of the box×10
- +Effectively deletes revisions as intended×6
- +Provides per-post control via a link in the editor×2
- +Compatible with Gutenberg editor and some themes (e.g., Avada)×2
Common complaints
- −Revisions reappear after deactivating the plugin, indicating deletions are not permanent
- −Missing bulk-selection UI and posts-list column for batch deletion
- −Does not work on some custom post types
- −Plugin has not been updated for a long time, raising concerns about maintenance
- −Incompatible with WordPress 5.6, causing the plugin to malfunction (since 5.6)
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.89★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 2%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 33% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 48 total
Latest reviews · 48 analyzed
- 2025-12-18★★★★★Awesome plugin, very useful!ldwd
- 2025-02-07★★★★★Does not work after disable pluginsgmmaffe
- 2024-03-30★★★★★Simple but Efficacenetdevel
- 2024-03-20★★★★★Very useful plugingetmarketingweb
- 2023-10-25★★★★★Potentially very handy but . .zondar
- 2023-08-02★★★★★Clean and simpleColin Stewart
- 2023-03-16★★★★★Excellent plugin, solves the ELEMENNTOR 500 Error by deleting older revisions.Samuel.Stroh
- 2022-03-01★★★★★Very useful pluginturzifer
- 2022-01-18★★★★★Beatifulmarioajanel
- 2020-12-22★★★★★problemufonaut
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
103
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
93
Prior 7-day baseline
82
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
100
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+10.8%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
33%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.60
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
96%
5★ share in analyzed sample
2%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.90 → 4.89★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered