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WordPress makes it easy to bring your site online and grow your community. You will need to perform maintenance on your database to keep your website performing well as it grows. Revision Strike is one of many plugins that you can use to get a handle on your revisions.
Those of you who know WordPress inside and out know that revisions can be limited in the wp-config file. If you don’t feel comfortable touching that file, Revision Strike can help. Simply define how many revision you would like to keep and minimum post age. It periodically purges revisions, so you don’t have to. This is a free plugin.
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