Mark Jaquith

This plugin increases the height of the category checklist meta box on the post editing screen so that all categories are shown. No more scrolling! All of your categories will be visible. If you’ve been frustrated by having to scroll to find the correct category, this plugin is for you. No options. Just install it and you’re good.

Category Checklist Expander

Increases the height of the category checklist meta box on the post editing screen so that all categories are shown.

Amr Abdelkarem

Clean unused shortcodes helps you find and remove shortcode tags left behind by old plugins, themes, or page builders — without hunting through posts one by one.
The tool lives under Tools → Clean unused shortcodes. Choose which public post types to scan, review the results, preview changes, then clean individual shortcodes or run a bulk cleanup.
<h4>Highlights</h4>
<ul>
<li>Scan by post type — posts, pages, and other public types (media/attachments excluded).</li>
<li>Three result tabs — unused (unregistered) shortcodes, used (registered and found), and registered but unused.</li>
<li>Content and excerpts — scans both fields and shows where each shortcode appears.</li>
<li>Batched operations — scan and clean large sites in chunks with a progress bar and cancel option.</li>
<li>Incremental scan — optionally rescan only posts modified since the last run.</li>
<li>Dry-run preview — see before/after snippets per post before saving.</li>
<li>Protected shortcodes — allowlist tags you never want removed (e.g. <code>caption</code>, <code>embed</code>).</li>
<li>Skip on clean all — exclude specific shortcodes from bulk cleanup.</li>
<li>Gutenberg-aware — removes empty <code>wp:shortcode</code> blocks after the inner shortcode is stripped.</li>
<li>Hyphenated names — detects shortcodes like <code>[my-slider]</code> as well as <code>[gallery]</code>.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Who is this for?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Sites that deactivated plugins but still have <code>[shortcode]</code> tags in content.</li>
<li>Editors who want a clear list of where each tag appears before deleting.</li>
<li>Administrators cleaning up legacy content on staging before going live.</li>
</ul>
Always back up your database (or test on staging) before running bulk clean operations.

Clean unused shortcodes

Scan your site for orphaned shortcodes and remove them safely from post content and excerpts.

Category Checklist Expander vs Clean unused shortcodes