Joost de Valk

This plugin tracks which of the autoloaded options are used on a page, and stores that data at the end of page render. It keeps an array of options that it has seen as being used. On the admin page, it compares all the autoloaded options to the array of stored options, and shows the autoloaded options that have not been used as you were browsing the site. If you’ve been to every page on your site, or you’ve kept the plugin around for a week or so, this means that those options probably don’t need to be autoloaded.
<h3>How to use this plugin</h3>
Install this plugin, and go through your entire site. Best is to use it normally for a couple of days, or to visit every page on your site and in your admin manually. Then go to the plugin’s settings screen, and go through the unused options. You can either decide to remove an unused option (they might for instance be for plugins you no longer use), or to set it to not autoload. The latter action is much less destructive: it’ll still be there, but it just won’t be autoloaded.

AAA Option Optimizer

And I love the speed in which improvements are made :)

Great tool to minimize autoloaded data size


I wonder how on earth a plugin tha promises to optimize the wp_options tables, stores 25MB of data in the option_value !!!! Maybe the guy who developed it does not understand the fundamentals of the internal database optimizers but such a huge deviation, totally ruins MariaDBs/MySQL internal optimizer. You see optimizers work on the assumption that in a table, the fields have somewhat related sizes. For more details please go to MariaDB Jira and check for cases MDEV-34097 and MDEV 32663If you add records with huge sizes (say > 100k) in wp_options table where each option is usually less than 30Bytes, then you have an issue. In our case the issue was caused by the very plugin that we used to monitor our options (that are by and large incorrect). Avoid it at all costs.


A joke!!!

Plugin that tracks autoloaded options usage and allows the user to optimize them.

Lester Chan

This plugin cleans up:
<ul>
<li>Revisions</li>
<li>Auto drafts</li>
<li>Deleted comments</li>
<li>Unapproved comments</li>
<li>Spammed comments</li>
<li>Deleted comments</li>
<li>Orphaned post meta</li>
<li>Orphaned comment meta</li>
<li>Orphaned user meta</li>
<li>Orphaned term meta</li>
<li>Orphan term relationships</li>
<li>Unused terms</li>
<li>Duplicated post meta</li>
<li>Duplicated comment meta</li>
<li>Duplicated user meta</li>
<li>Duplicated term meta</li>
<li>Transient options</li>
<li>Optimizes database tables</li>
<li>oEmbed caches in post meta</li>
</ul>
This plugin uses proper WordPress delete functions as much as possible instead of running direct delete MySQL queries.
Following delete functions are used:
<ul>
<li>wp_delete_post_revision()</li>
<li>wp_delete_post()</li>
<li>wp_delete_comment()</li>
<li>delete_post_meta()</li>
<li>delete_comment_meta()</li>
<li>delete_user_meta()</li>
<li>delete_term_meta()</li>
<li>wp_remove_object_terms()</li>
<li>wp_delete_term()</li>
<li>delete_transient()</li>
<li>delete_site_transient()</li>
</ul>
WP-Sweep WP REST API Endpoints 
* <code>GET /wp-json/sweep/v1/count/<Name></code>. Get the number of items that we will be sweeping. 
* <code>GET /wp-json/sweep/v1/details/<Name></code>. Get the details of the items that we will be sweeping. 
* <code>DELETE /wp-json/sweep/v1/sweep/<Name></code>. Runs sweep for that particular item.
WP-Sweep WP-CLI Commands 
* <code>wp sweep --all</code>. Runs sweep for all items. 
* <code>wp sweep <Name></code>. Runs sweep for that particular item. 
* <code>wp sweep <Name1> <Name2></code>. Run sweep for the selected items.
WP-Sweep Available Items: 
* revisions 
* auto_drafts 
* deleted_posts 
* unapproved_comments 
* spam_comments 
* deleted_comments 
* transient_options 
* orphan_postmeta 
* orphan_commentmeta 
* orphan_usermeta 
* orphan_termmeta 
* orphan_term_relationships 
* unused_terms 
* duplicated_postmeta 
* duplicated_commentmeta 
* duplicated_usermeta 
* duplicated_termmeta 
* optimize_database 
* oembed_postmeta
WP-Sweep is not compatible with the following plugins: 
* <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-fonts/" rel="ugc">Custom Fonts</a> 
* <a href="https://elementor.com/features/popup-builder/" rel="nofollow ugc">Elementor Popup Builder</a> 
* <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailpress/" rel="ugc">MailPress</a> 
* <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/ml-slider/" rel="ugc">Meta Slider</a> 
* <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/" rel="ugc">Polylang</a> 
* <a href="https://revolution.themepunch.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Slider Revolution</a> 
* <a href="https://codecanyon.net/item/viba-portfolio-wordpress-plugin/9561599" rel="nofollow ugc">Viba Portfolio</a> 
* <a href="https://wpml.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPML</a>
<h3>Build Status</h3>
<a href="https://codeclimate.com/github/lesterchan/wp-sweep" rel="nofollow ugc"></a> 
<a href="https://codeclimate.com/github/lesterchan/wp-sweep" rel="nofollow ugc"></a>
<h3>Development</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-sweep" title="https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-sweep" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-sweep</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li>Plugin icon by <a href="http://www.freepik.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Freepik</a> from <a href="http://www.flaticon.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Flaticon</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Donations</h3>
I spent most of my free time creating, updating, maintaining and supporting these plugins, if you really love my plugins and could spare me a couple of bucks, I will really appreciate it. If not feel free to use it without any obligations.

WP-Sweep


WP-Sweep is a simple yet powerful plugin that helps keep your WordPress site running smoothly. It cleans up unnecessary data like post revisions, trashed posts, spam comments, unused terms, and more — all using native WordPress functions, which makes it safer than many alternatives.



We've used WP-Sweep on multiple websites and it's never caused any issues. It's lightweight, user-friendly, and does exactly what it promises. The interface is clear and makes it easy to choose what to clean.



Highly recommended for anyone looking to optimize their WordPress database without the risk of breaking anything.


Great plugin to keep your WordPress database clean and optimized

WP-Sweep allows you to clean up unused, orphaned and duplicated data in your WordPress. It also optimizes your database tables.

AAA Option Optimizer vs WP-Sweep