Description
With a ton of features and the ability to handle even the largest of databases, Database Cleaner is built on years of experience with the other related plugins and the latest versions of WP and PHP. Thanks to its user-friendly interface, you’ll be able to easily navigate everything and make sure everything is just right. Plus, if you have a lot of work to be done, Database Cleaner uses asynchronous requests to tackle it slowly and steadily, helping to avoid errors and timeouts. You’ll find more information here: Database Cleaner.
IMPORTANT: Always create a backup of your data before using such a plugin! It works well, but better be safe than sorry! 🙂
Features
- Easy and Expert modes.
- Auto Clean button. Choose the items you’d like to clean automatically, and let the plugin do the job!
- Keep statistics and historical data about your database size.
- Allow you to browse your data to better understand it and to categorize it.
- Handle oversized databases through asynchronous and decently sized requests.
- User-friendly UI, solidly built, that will evolve with time.
What does it clean?
The usual, which are: Revisions, Auto-Drafts, Deleted Posts, Orphaned Post Meta, Orphaned Term Meta, Orphaned Term Relationships, oEmbed Caches, Unused Terms, Duplicated Term Meta, Duplicated Post Meta, Orphaned User Meta, Duplicated User Meta, Unapproved Comments, Spammed Comments, Deleted Comments, Orphaned Comments Data, Duplicated Comments Data, Expired, Transients, All Transients.
Database Cleaner also gives you specific tools to analyze and check how your data is used for:
- Post Types
- Tables
- Options
- Cron Jobs
Database Cleaner use its own references and analysis to figure out by which plugins or themes your data is used. An even better support of this feature is supported in the Pro Version.
Why this plugin?
There are other database cleaners. I used them, but I always found them were imperfect, with old UI, too many missing (or half-cooked) features, limited ways to look into the data. The worse for me is that none of them can actually can handle big databases! Based on all those issues, I craft my own, and here is the result. And now, I am working hard to make it the best for all of you, and for all kinds of WordPress and databases.
Any feedback? I am here 🙂 I would love to talk with you and make Database Cleaner better for you.
Installation
- Upload the plugin to WordPress.
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Go to Meow Apps -> Database Cleaner in the sidebar and check the appropriate options.
- Click on the button to clean your database automatically.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Database Cleaner: Clean, Optimize & Repair” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors“Database Cleaner: Clean, Optimize & Repair” has been translated into 3 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
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Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
0.9.1 (2023/06/02)
- Update: Metadata is loaded/filtered on the server-side (since it’s usually too large).
- Update: Support for more plugins.
- Update: Better UI.
- 🌴 I need some love and motivation. If you enjoy Database Cleaner, please leave a review here. That would help me a lot. Thank you!
0.8.9 (2023/05/16)
- Fix: Tables without the prefix were not handled correctly.
- Update: Support for more plugins.
0.8.8 (2023/05/06)
- Update: Cleaned the options.
- Update: Support for more plugins.
0.8.7 (2023/05/05)
- Update: Better UI.
- Update: More Age Thresholds.
0.8.6 (2023/05/02)
- Add: Metadata tab, and filters for columns.
- Add: Support for AI Engine.
- ADd: Size filters (this can be improved in many ways however).
- Update: Fresh packages and bundles.
0.8.5 (2023/04/09)
- Update: Better support for plugins.
- Add: Support for Freemius.
0.8.4 (2023/03/28)
- Update: Lighter package.
- Update: New UI framework.
- Update: Better plugins support.
- Update: Support for PHP 8.2+.
0.8.3 (2023/03/13)
- Update: Fully translatable.
- Update: Handle more use cases.
0.8.2 (2023/03/01)
- Update: Optimized bundle size.
- Update: Handle more use cases.
0.8.0 (2023/02/16)
- Update: Handle more use cases.
- Update: Refactored and cleaned some code. The plugin is actually now in a beautiful state!
0.7.9 (2023/02/01)
- Update: Handle more use cases.
- Update: Hide the counters when an action is being done.
0.7.7 (2023/01/27)
- Update: Handle more use cases.
- Update: Enhanced the entries modal, but still some work to do.
0.7.6 (2023/01/09)
- Add: Checkboxes to avoid seeing everything in the entries modal (will make this better later).
- Update: Handle more use cases.
0.7.5 (2023/01/09)
- Add: Repair tables.
- Update: Handle more use cases.
- Info: Happy 2023! 🎁
0.7.4 (2022/12/24)
- Update: Handle more use cases.
- Update: Better handling for Duplicated Post Meta.
0.7.3 (2022/12/12)
- Add: Ability to browse the data in a table. All the columns are displayed, we’ll add a way to hide/show the columns independently later.
- Add: Better titles for modals.
- Add: Additional support for plugins.
0.7.2 (2022/11/23)
- Add: Support for a lot of new plugins.
- Update: Cleaner UI, let me know how to improve it further.
0.7.1 (2022/11/15)
- Add: New option to add a delay between each request. This is useful when you have a lot of data to clean, and you want to avoid timeouts.
- Update: The chart now works a bit differently and can switch between DB size and percent change.
- Fix: Little fixes for better requests.
- Add: New button to generate random fake data. Only for debugging purposes.
0.6.9 (2022/11/09)
- Update: Better UI with better buttons, and colored alternative rows.
- Update: Used By data is now more overridable.
0.6.8 (2022/11/01)
- Added: Support for WordPress 6.1.
- Added: Support for PHP 8.1.
- Added: Custom Queries.
0.6.7 (2022/10/19)
- Fix: There were a few notices and warnings.
- Added: Support for more plugins.
0.6.6 (2022/10/15)
- Update: We can now override the ‘Used By’.
- Update: Optimize the ‘Used By’ feature.
- Add: Pingbacks.
0.6.5
- Add: Improved browsing of the data.
- Update: Improved the loading of data.
0.6.4
- Update: Chart use log scale.
- Update: Options are handled differently (UI will be more responsive).
- Add: Better support for plugins.
0.6.3 (2022/09/20)
- Add: A little chart to show the evolution of the DB size.
- Add: Added support for Expired Transients.
- Fix: There was a bug while deleting certain cron jobs.
0.6.1 (2022/09/08)
- Add: Support for more plugins.
- Update: Store everything in only one option instead of many.
- Update: Optimized the way options are loaded and updated.
0.6.0 (2022/09/06)
- Update: Update the size of the DB every day automatically.
- Update: The UI is now a bit more elegant.
- Add: We can now disable the message which is above the dashboard.
0.5.9 (2022/08/29)
- Fix: The columns weren’t aligned properly.
- Fix: Tiny technical enhancements to make things smoother.
0.5.8 (2022/08/16)
- Add: Easy/Expert Switch. The plugin now fits two kinds of user.
- Update: More UI improvements, we are getting close to perfection!? Let me know! 💕
0.5.7 (2022/08/10)
- Fix: It was not possible to select many tables at once.
- Fix: Assigning a plugin to a specific cron task wasn’t working.
- Add: New plugins support.
- Update: Little changes in the UI and how it works, should feel natural.
0.5.6 (2022/08/04)
- Update: Assign Plugin now refreshes the items right away.
- Update: Assign Plugin now features a filter to associate to plugins faster.
- Update: Better UX when the plugin is busy.
0.5.5 (2022/07/23)
- Fix: Could not delete or optimize tables without prefix.
- Update: Use a button instead of a link to associate an item with a plugin.
0.5.4 (2022/07/19)
- Add: Now possible to select a range of checkboxes/items by using SHIFT.
0.5.3 (2022/07/12)
- Fix: There was a little UI issue with the columns.
- Add: Deep-Cleaning option for Pro.
- Add: We can now see/check all the data of all Posts through paging (by using the glass magnifier icon).
0.5.1 (2022/06/24)
- Update: My library Neko UI was improved (that will impact the UI positively).
0.4.9 (2022/06/03)
- Update: Enhanced the loading of the data of the first tab, for a smoother and nicer experience.
- Update: Additional support for other plugins.
0.4.7 (2022/05/25)
- Update: Lot of little UI enhancements.
- Update: Additional support for other plugins.
0.4.6 (2022/05/19)
- Fix: The handling of the _user_roles option was wrong.
- Update: Icons have been updated; the trash means some data will be removed, while the cross means the item will be entirely removed (in a case of a table, it means it will be dropped).
0.4.5 (2022/05/16)
- Update: Better handling of the Used By column with support of regexp.
- Update: Little UI enhancements to avoid extra clicks.
- Fix: Retrieve better option value for the modal.
0.4.4 (2022/05/10)
- Add: We can now check what is the data stored by an option.
0.4.3 (2022/05/03)
- Fix: Better UI for handling the Used By.
0.4.2 (2022/04/29)
- Fix: Better support for ACF and various other plugins.
- Fix: Little UI enhancements to handle the “Used By” data.
0.4.1 (2022/04/24)
- Add: Support for item used by frameworks.
- Fix: Better support for Elementor.
- Update: Lot of UI enhancements. More to come next week!
0.3.9 (2022/04/18)
- Fix: Removed some warnings on the PHP side which were sometimes breaking the asynchronous requests.
- Add: We can now copy/paste the whole customized data related to Used By.
0.3.8 (2022/04/15)
- Add: Sort by name, size, used by, etc.
- Add: Search for name, used by, etc.
- Fix: There was an issue with the count for transients.
- Update: Better filters, improved UI.
0.3.7 (2022/04/13)
- Add: User can now choose a plugin for the “Used By” column.
- Fix: Removed a few warnings and enhanced the filters.
0.3.6 (2022/04/10)
- Fix: The count was wrong for Post Types.
0.3.4 (2022/04/08)
- Fix: Better handling of “Used By” overrides (to make sure we get some better information about how an item is used).
- Add: Checkbox to hide the items “Used by WordPress”.
- Add: Paging for Post Types, Tables.
- Fix: Statistics were not updated after Auto Clean.
- Update: Again, many UI enhancements.
0.3.0 (2022/04/05)
- Update: Many UI enhancements, buttons were simplified and actions moved on the left (to make it clearer which item it is linked to), smoother busy statuses.
- Add: Autoload is now a checkbox (which we can enabled/disabled).
0.2.9 (2022/03/30)
- Update: Changed the way (and filters) the items can be selected in bulk.
0.2.8 (2022/03/29)
- Fix: There was some issues with deleting cron jobs.
- Fix: Little UI issues.
- Update: Possibility to select more than one item at the time.
0.2.7 (2022/03/22)
- Add: Cron Tabs.
0.2.6 (2022/03/18)
- Fix: The percentage was sometimes off.
- Add: Support for Meow Apps plugins.
0.2.5 (2022/03/15)
- Add: Ability to see how much the DB increased or decreased over time.
- Add: Checkbox to select tables.
- Update: Improved UI.
0.2.4 (2022/03/11)
- Fix: Compatibility with MariaDB.
- Add: Optimize for tables.
- Update: Better UI for Options.
- Update: UI enhancements.
0.2.1 (2022/03/08)
- Add: Support for “Used By” for WordPress Core, WooCommerce, and the whole system behind it (actions, filters).
- Update: Better SQL queries.
- Update: Better UI.
0.1.5 (2022/03/04)
- Add: A way to look into the data which is going to be removed.
- Add: More ways to delete in bulk.
- Fix: A few UI bugs related to refreshing.
- Update: The UI is always evolving! Better and better! (and we are not done)
0.1.2 (2022/02/21)
- Update: Better buffered deletions.
- Update: Dynamicity of the UI has improved a lot.
0.1.1 (2022/02/15)
- Add: Finally, support for big installs, with buffered deletions!
- Update: A bunch of fixes and enhancements.
0.1.0 (2022/01/26)
- Update: Doesn’t work with risk level anymore, but a simpler option.
- Update: UI improvements.
0.0.7 (2022/01/11)
- Add: Logging.
- Update: More information about what the plugin is cleaning after clicking the Clean DB button.
0.0.6 (2021/12/20)
- Update: Nice UI improvements.
0.0.5 (2021/12/14)
- Add: Support for removing tables, and check by which plugins they are used.
- Add: Ignore status for Risk column.
- Info: Additional and various enhancements.
0.0.4
- Fix: The default Risk Treshold was too high.
0.0.3
- Update: Small improvements, tables percentages, etc.
0.0.2
- Add: Table statistics.
- Update: Improve UI (buttons, organization, etc).
0.0.1
- Info: First release.