David Artiss

<p>Clean expired transients from your options table. The original and best!</p>
<p><strong>Transient housekeeping was added to the core of WordPress after version 5.8. However, I have decided to open up this plugin to all versions to allow for manual transient cleaning. Longer term I am working on a new version of the plugin, designed specifically for all WordPress releases.</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Tested up to PHP 8.2</li>
<li>Fully complies with WordPress coding standards</li>
<li>Compliant with the stronger <a href="https://wpvip.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress VIP</a> coding standards, as well as compatibility with their platform</li>
<li>Community plugin – visit the [Github page](https://github.com/dartiss/[repo link] “Github”) to get involved with the latest code development, request enhancements and report issues</li>
</ul>
<p>“Transients are a simple and standardized way of storing cached data in the WordPress database temporarily by giving it a custom name and a timeframe after which it will expire and be deleted.”</p>
<p>Unfortunately, expired transients only get deleted when you attempt to access them. If you don’t access the transient then, even though it’s expired, WordPress will not remove it. This is <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/20316" title="Ticket #20316" rel="nofollow ugc">a known “issue”</a> but due to reasons, which are explained in the FAQ, this has not been adequately resolved.</p>
<p>Why is this a problem? Transients are often used by plugins to “cache” data (my own plugins included). Because of this it means that expired data can be left and build up, resulting in a bloated database table.</p>
<p>Meantime, this plugin is the hero that you’ve been waiting for. Simply activate the plugin, sit back and enjoy a much cleaner, smaller options table. It also adds the additional recommendation that after a database upgrade all transients will be cleared down.</p>
<h3>The Settings Screen</h3>
<p>Within <code>Administration</code> -> <code>Tools</code> -> <code>Transients</code> an options screen exists allowing you to tweak when you’d like cleaning to happen, including the ability to perform an ad-hoc run, and when you’d like the to be automatically scheduled.</p>
<p>You can even request an optimization of the options table to give your system a real “pep”!</p>
<h3>Running in Lite mode</h3>
<p>A “lite” mode is available. By activating this the options screen will no longer appear and default settings will be used. The advantage? Improved performance to Admin and, especially if you’re running multi-site, no chance of anybody “tinkering” with the settings.</p>
<p>To activate, use the following…</p>
<pre><code>define( 'TC_LITE', true );
</code></pre>
<p>This should be added to your <code>wp-config.php</code> file.</p>
<h3>Using hooks</h3>
<p>If you’re the type of odd person who likes to code for WordPress (really?) then I’ve added a couple of hooks so you can call our rather neat cleaning functions…</p>
<ul>
<li><code>housekeep_transients</code> – this will clear down any expired transients</li>
<li><code>clear_all_transients</code> – this will remove any and all transients, expired or otherwise</li>
</ul>
<h3>Acknowledgements</h3>
<p>I’d like to thank WordPress Developer Andrew Nacin for his early discussion on this. Also, I’d like to acknowledge <a href="http://www.staze.org/wordpress-_transient-buildup/" title="WordPress _transient buildup" rel="nofollow ugc">the useful article at Everybody Staze</a> for ensuring the proposed solution made sense, and <a href="http://w-shadow.com/blog/2012/04/17/delete-stale-transients/" title="Cleaning Up Stale Transients" rel="nofollow ugc">W-Shadow.com</a> for the cleaning code.</p>
<p>Iconography is courtesy of the very talented <a href="https://www.fiverr.com/jankirathore" rel="nofollow ugc">Janki Rathod</a>.</p>


Transient Cleaner

This plugin is great. A site I manage got hacked and the database export was 304mb. After clearing the transients the database export went from 304mb to 13mb.



Fantastic plugin!

This helped fix a widget that had cached old data in a transient

Clean Now - awesome

Clean expired transients from your options table. The original and best!

Syed Balkhi

Pippin Williamson

John James Jacoby

WPBeginner

<h4>Easily Manage Transients</h4>
<p>This is a developer tool that provides a user interface to manage transients.</p>
<p>You can easily view, search, edit, and delete transients from Tools > Transients.</p>
<p>A toolbar toggle allows you to suspend transient updates to help with testing and debugging.</p>
<h4>Features of Transients Manager</h4>
<ul>
<li>Toolbar button to suspend transient writes</li>
<li>View all transients in the database</li>
<li>Edit the name, expiration, and value of any transient</li>
<li>Delete any transient</li>
<li>Search transients by name</li>
<li>Bulk actions to delete: all, expired, unexpired, or persistent transients</li>
</ul>
<h4>Credits</h4>
<p>This plugin is owned by <a href="https://syedbalkhi.com/" rel="friend nofollow ugc">Syed Balkhi</a> and maintained by the <a href="https://www.wpbeginner.com/" rel="friend nofollow ugc">WPBeginner</a> team.</p>
<p>It was originally created by <a href="https://pippinsplugins.com/" rel="friend nofollow ugc">Pippin Williamson</a>.</p>
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<p>If you like this plugin and find it useful to manage transients, please leave a good rating and consider checking out our other projects:</p>
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<h4>Thanks</h4>
<p>Transients Manager is the best way to manage transients in your WordPress site.</p>
<p>Our goal is to make using WordPress easy, both with our <a href="https://www.wpbeginner.com/wordpress-plugins/" rel="friend nofollow ugc">WordPress plugins</a> and resources like <a href="https://www.wpbeginner.com/" rel="friend nofollow ugc">WPBeginner</a>, the largest WordPress resource site for beginners.</p>
<p>I feel that we have done that here, and I hope you find Transients Manager useful.</p>
<p>Thank you,<br />
–Syed Balkhi</p>


Transients Manager

I've had a number of times when one of my sites was getting bogged down because of transient issues. Transients Manager helped me investigate, identify the problem so I could fix it, and clear out the mess.

Saved the day more than once

Every time I code something involving transients, this plugin is an indispensable tool. Thank you.

Such a wonderful tool when working with transients!

I needed to catch a floating bug on my site. It became clear that this was somehow related to transient options.The first to turn up this plugin. And I was not wrong. Plugin solves its narrow task and does it excellently. If you need to do anything with transient options in WordPress - this plugin is what you need.
Thank you so much for your work!

Very convenient and intuitive tool!

I find this plugin very useful when testing to search and delete specific transients

Useful tool when testing


This is invaluable for developing plugins with WP transients.



It's an easy-to-use plugin that does one thing well.



It works in WP 6.1.1, although it contains some code deprecated in PHP8.2.


Works with WP 6.1.1

Excellent!

Provides a familiar interface to view, search, edit, and delete Transients.

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