Scheduled posts, revisions, and light database housekeeping

Short answer: Scheduled posts and endless revisions quietly bloat databases—set retention policies and occasional cleanup windows.

WordPress convenience features are fine until a modest blog’s database slows backups and migrations.

Revisions

• Limit revision count via constants or policies if your workflow allows.
• Educate authors to publish rather than hoard dozens of drafts forever.

Cron and scheduled posts

Ensure site traffic or server cron triggers WP cron reliably—missed schedules frustrate publishers.

Housekeeping tasks

Remove spam comments, transient cruft from old plugins, and orphaned meta after plugin removal—on staging first.

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