brockangelo

<p>This plugin schedules a daily event using wp_cron that deletes all comments marked “spam” in the database, then optimizes the comments table.</p>
<p>Brief reason why I made such a low-tech plugin:</p>
<p>Akismet catches all the spam, but when I was looking at the size of my backups one day,<br />
I noticed that there were large numbers of comment spam across several sites that were undeleted and they<br />
made the databases fairly large. So I setup a cron job on my server that deletes the spam.</p>
<p>Since I had never written a plugin, I thought this might be helpful for those who do not have<br />
a dedicated server, shell access to their site, or the knowledge of (or interest in ) cron to set this up.</p>
<p>Spam is not deleted until you start the schedule after the plugin is activated. I created buttons<br />
to start and stop the schedule if you need that layer of control. There is also a button for deleting all spam manually.</p>


Delete Spam Daily

Uses wp_cron to delete comments each day that are marked "spam" in the database.

Younes JFR.

<p>“WP Cron Cleaner” is a useful plugin to view the list of all your scheduled tasks. Indeed, your site may contain some orphan scheduled tasks that should be cleaned. “WP Cron Cleaner” will display all your tasks so you can identify those that should be cleaned. Moreover, you will be able to see what happens in your site behind the scenes</p>
<h4>Main Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Displays all cron jobs (scheduled tasks) names</li>
<li>Displays frequency of each task</li>
<li>Displays “next run” of each task</li>
<li>Allows you choose what tasks to clean</li>
<li>Supports multisite installation</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pro Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Detects orphan cron scheduled tasks</li>
<li>Detects plugins cron scheduled tasks</li>
<li>Detects themes cron scheduled tasks</li>
<li>Detects WordPress cron scheduled tasks</li>
</ul>
<h4>Multisite Support</h4>
<ul>
<li>Only the main site can view and clean tasks in the whole network. Other sites in the network cannot perform these tasks. We have opted for this philosophy because we are sure that only the super administrator can perform such actions.</li>
</ul>


WP Cron Cleaner

Tested

View all your cron scheduled tasks, then clean what you want.

Delete Spam Daily vs WP Cron Cleaner