John Ellmore

This plugin allows the website administrator to remove the following from the WordPress Administration Panel:
<ul>
<li>menu links (like “Tools”, “Appearance”, or annoying menus from third-party plugin)</li>
<li>submenu links (like “Users > Your Profile”, “Tools > Available Tools”, or annoying menus from third-party plugins)</li>
<li>and dashboard meta boxes (like “QuickPress”, “Other WordPress News”, or annoying meta boxes from third-party plugins)</li>
</ul>
It relies on hardcoded settings in wp-config.php (instead of having yet another admin settings page to deal with). Since the settings are all hardcoded, it can be easily set up by a website administrator and left in place without any users messing with it. It works on both single and multisite installations.

Simplify Admin Panel

Allows easy removal of menu links, submenu links, and dashboard widgets from the WordPress Admin…

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.

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