CodingBunny

CodingBunny Database Cleaner is a straightforward yet powerful WordPress plugin that helps you analyze, filter, and safely remove unnecessary data from your database. Whether it’s orphaned options, leftover post meta, unused comments, transients, or more, the plugin gives you a clear picture of what’s in your database and lets you clean it up with confidence.
The plugin automatically detects the likely origin of each database entry — plugin, theme, or WordPress core — so you always know what you’re dealing with before you delete anything.
<h3>Why use CodingBunny Database Cleaner?</h3>
<ul>
<li>See what’s really in your database: get a clear overview of all entries, with auto-detected source.</li>
<li>Clean safely: every action is protected by nonces, role checks, and confirmation prompts. No accidental deletions.</li>
<li>Improve performance: a leaner database means faster queries, smaller backups, and a snappier site.</li>
<li>Automate cleaning: schedule automatic cleanups for greater peace of mind.</li>
<li>Help the community: if the plugin misidentifies the owner of a database entry, you can contribute a correction to help everyone.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Features</h4>
Tables 
* Optimize, repair, and convert tables to InnoDB 
* Delete unused tables 
* Table source detection
Options 
* Delete unused options 
* Manage and optimize autoloaded options
Posts 
* Delete posts, revisions, auto drafts, trash 
* Set up scheduled automatic cleanup
Post Meta 
* Delete unused and orphaned post meta entries 
* Set up scheduled auto clean
Comments 
* Delete spam, trashed, and orphaned comments, pingbacks and trackbacks 
* Set up scheduled auto clean
Comment Meta 
* Delete unused and orphaned comment meta 
* Set up scheduled auto clean
User Meta 
* Delete unused and orphaned user meta 
* Set up scheduled auto clean
Term Meta 
* Delete unused and orphaned term meta 
* Set up scheduled auto clean
Term Relationship 
* Delete unused and orphaned term relationships 
* Set up scheduled auto clean
Post Types 
* Delete unused post types
Transients 
* Delete unused and expired transients 
* Set up scheduled auto clean
Cron Jobs 
* Delete unused cron jobs 
* Set up scheduled auto clean
Action Scheduler 
* Delete completed, failed, and canceled actions 
* Set up scheduled auto clean
oEmbed Caches 
* Delete all oEmbed caches or only expired ones 
* Set up scheduled auto clean
Full Database Cleanup 
* Clean your entire database in a single action
General Tools 
* Multisite support: clean individual subsites or the entire network 
* Detailed filtering, searching, and sorting in every module 
* Paginated results for efficient handling of large databases 
* Safety confirmations and nonce verification on every action 
* Contribute ownership corrections to help the community

CodingBunny Database Cleaner


This plugin does exactly what it promises and helps keep the WordPress database clean without unnecessary complexity. The interface is straightforward, and the cleanup process is easy to understand even for non-technical users.



One suggestion for improvement: instead of adding a separate DB Cleaner item in the main WordPress admin menu, it would feel more natural and consistent with WordPress conventions to place it under Tools → DB Cleaner.



Overall, a useful plugin for routine database maintenance.


Simple and Useful Database Cleanup Plugin

Keep your WordPress database fast and lean by finding and removing orphaned data left behind by plugins, themes, and WordPress itself.

Freemius

Milan Petrovic

SweepPress is an easy-to-use WordPress plugin built around 52 different Sweepers for database cleanup (the Pro version has 57), support for WP-CLI, and WP REST API to perform the cleanup operations. The plugin also features a powerful WordPress Options database table management panel.
<h4>Quick Video Overview</h4>
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<h4>Options Management</h4>
The WordPress Options database table holds settings for WordPress Core, all the plugins, and themes. This table can grow significantly, especially since records are not auto-deleted when removing a plugin or theme. SweepPress has Sweepers that deal with transient cache records (stored in this table), and now, since version 3.0, it has a full Management panel where you can see all the records in the <code>Options</code> table, detect source for the record and status to help you decide if you should delete the record or not.
SweepPress has two methods to detect the source of the record, and it will mark all the recognized records. This panel doesn’t show transient records (used for cache) or WordPress options (deleting these options is a terrible idea). There is also a Quick Tasks subpanel, which can help you quickly remove options fitting into few standard predefined criteria.
Options deletion process is not automatic! No matter how precise options usage detection is, you need to verify and confirm that you want to delete one or more records.
<a href="https://www.dev4press/plugins/sweeppress/" rel="nofollow ugc">SweepPress Pro</a> It also has advanced management panels for all the WordPress metadata and multisite Sitemeta database tables, including options to track the usage of meta-records, and remove all the entries from the database associated with specific meta.
<h4>Modes of Sweeping</h4>
<ul>
<li>Auto Sweep: available on the dashboard, running many (not all) sweepers without user input.</li>
<li>Quick Sweep: available on the dashboard, allowing the sweepers to be selected.</li>
<li>Full Sweep: available on its panel, with detailed information about sweepers and no limit run.</li>
<li>CLI Sweep: the plugin supports WP-CLI and adds commands to run all the sweepers with the command line.</li>
<li>REST API Sweep: the plugin supports WP REST API and allows sweeping via the new REST endpoints.</li>
</ul>
All sweepers use optimized SQL queries to find the data for removal, which is also done using SQL queries. This is the fastest and most efficient way to remove a large amount of data quickly.
<h4>List of Sweepers</h4>
<ul>
<li>Posts: Auto Drafts</li>
<li>Posts: Spam Content</li>
<li>Posts: Trashed Content</li>
<li>Posts: Posts Revisions</li>
<li>Posts: Posts Orphaned Revisions</li>
<li>Posts: Draft Posts Revisions</li>
<li>Posts: Postmeta Locks</li>
<li>Posts: Postmeta Last Edits</li>
<li>Posts: Postmeta Oembeds</li>
<li>Posts: Postmeta Old Data</li>
<li>Posts: Postmeta Orphans</li>
<li>Posts: Postmeta Duplicates</li>
<li>Comments: Spam Comments</li>
<li>Comments: Trashed Comments</li>
<li>Comments: Unapproved Comments</li>
<li>Comments: Orphaned Comments</li>
<li>Comments: Comments User Agents</li>
<li>Comments: Commentmeta Orphans</li>
<li>Comments: Commentmeta Duplicates</li>
<li>Comments: Pingbacks Cleanup</li>
<li>Comments: Trackbacks Cleanup</li>
<li>Comments: Akismet Meta Records</li>
<li>Terms: Terms Orphans</li>
<li>Terms: Termmeta Orphans</li>
<li>Terms: Termmeta Duplicates</li>
<li>Terms: Term Relationships Taxonomy Orphans</li>
<li>Terms: Term Relationships Objects Orphans</li>
<li>Terms: AMP Validation Errors</li>
<li>Terms: Unused Terms</li>
<li>Users: Usermeta Orphans</li>
<li>Users: Usermeta Duplicates</li>
<li>Options: Expired Transients</li>
<li>Options: RSS Feeds</li>
<li>Options: All Transients</li>
<li>Options: CRON Jobs</li>
<li>Options: Unhooked CRON Jobs</li>
<li>Network: Expired Transients</li>
<li>Network: All Transients</li>
<li>Network: Inactive Signups</li>
<li>Database: Optimize Database Tables</li>
<li>Database: Repair Database Tables</li>
<li>ActionScheduler: Log Entries</li>
<li>ActionScheduler: Orphaned Log Entries</li>
<li>ActionScheduler: Failed Actions</li>
<li>ActionScheduler: Completed Actions</li>
<li>ActionScheduler: Canceled Actions</li>
<li>bbPress: Replies Orphans</li>
<li>BuddyPress: Activity Meta Orphans</li>
<li>BuddyPress: Groups Meta Orphans</li>
<li>BuddyPress: Messages Meta Orphans</li>
<li>BuddyPress: Notifications Meta Orphans</li>
<li>Elementor: Trashed Submissions</li>
</ul>
<h4>WP-CLI and WP REST API Support</h4>
The plugin registers new CLI commands for running sweep operations from the command line (WP-CLI is required). It also registers the REST API endpoint for the same purpose: running remote sweep operations (only for the administrator role!). CLI and REST API support can be enabled through plugin settings.
<h4>Action Scheduler Support</h4>
The plugin can clean up the ActionScheduler tables. These tables are used by the Action Schedule plugin and components developed for WooCommerce but also in many other WordPress plugins, including WP Rocket and Rank Math. For these sweepers to be visible, at least one plugin using those tables needs to be active.
<h4>Additional Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Sweeper File Log: log every sweeper execution into a log file with all sweeper/removal SQL queries executed by each used sweeper.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Special Notice</h4>
The plugin will show the backup reminder notice by default (and it can be disabled) on every page. It is essential to understand that once the plugin deletes data, it can’t be restored. So, if you change your mind later, it is important to make the backup before the data removal. The SweepPress plugin is not responsible for any data loss — ensure backups! In SweepPress Pro, there is a Backup Data feature that will create partial backups from data before it is removed and store it into SQL export files.
<h4>Plugin Home Page</h4>
<ul>
<li>Learn more about the plugin: <a href="https://www.dev4press/plugins/sweeppress/" rel="nofollow ugc">SweepPress Home Page</a></li>
<li>Plugin knowledge base: <a href="https://www.dev4press.com/kb/product/sweeppress/" rel="nofollow ugc">SweepPress on Dev4Press</a></li>
<li>Support for the Lite version: <a href="https://support.dev4press.com/forums/forum/plugins-lite/sweeppress/" rel="nofollow ugc">Support Forum on Dev4Press</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>SweepPress Pro</h4>
SweepPress Lite edition is a fully functional plugin with no limits to its operations. But SweepPress Pro contains a lot of additional features not available in the Lite version:
<ul>
<li>Backup the data before it is deleted into SQL export files. Includes a management panel for Backup files.</li>
<li>Management for ALL the WordPress Metadata tables: <code>postmeta</code>, <code>termmeta</code>, <code>commentmeta</code>, <code>usermeta</code> and <code>blogmeta</code>.</li>
<li>Management for the WordPress Multisite Sitemeta table: this table is equivalent of the Options table, but for all the blogs in the multisite.</li>
<li>Track and Detect use of metadata and allow removal of any meta-records for all supported metadata tables.</li>
<li>Preview duplicated metadata records for all supported metadata tables. Preview data for some sweepers.</li>
<li>Create and manage Sweeper Jobs: create custom background sweeper jobs to run at a specific date or as a recurring job.</li>
<li>Control and track WordPress CRON jobs: list all the WordPress CRON jobs, track and display the source, and more.</li>
<li>Sweeper Monitor: monitor the website for cleanup daily or weekly, and send notifications when the sweeping limit is reached.</li>
<li>Database Tables: an overview of all tables in the database with source information and various actions for better control.</li>
<li>GravityForms Support: three additional sweepers to remove all trashed forms, spammed, and trash entries by form.</li>
<li>CLI Command to list CRON jobs: list all registered WP CRON jobs via the command line.</li>
</ul>
Future updates will include more exclusive Pro features.

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