WP-Sweep allows you to clean up unused, orphaned and duplicated data in your WordPress.
| Author: | Lester Chan (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 4.6 |
| WordPress version tested: | 6.8 |
| Plugin version: | 1.1.8 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 25-02-2015 |
| Last updated: | 16-04-2025 |
| Rating, %: | 94 |
| Rated by: | 138 |
| Plugin URI: | https://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/... |
| Total downloads: | 1 773 874 |
| Active installs: | 100 000+ |
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This plugin cleans up:
- Revisions
- Auto drafts
- Deleted comments
- Unapproved comments
- Spammed comments
- Deleted comments
- Orphaned post meta
- Orphaned comment meta
- Orphaned user meta
- Orphaned term meta
- Orphan term relationships
- Unused terms
- Duplicated post meta
- Duplicated comment meta
- Duplicated user meta
- Duplicated term meta
- Transient options
- Optimizes database tables
- oEmbed caches in post meta
This plugin uses proper WordPress delete functions as much as possible instead of running direct delete MySQL queries.
Following delete functions are used:
- wp_delete_post_revision()
- wp_delete_post()
- wp_delete_comment()
- delete_post_meta()
- delete_comment_meta()
- delete_user_meta()
- delete_term_meta()
- wp_remove_object_terms()
- wp_delete_term()
- delete_transient()
- delete_site_transient()
WP-Sweep WP REST API Endpoints
* GET /wp-json/sweep/v1/count/<Name>. Get the number of items that we will be sweeping.
* GET /wp-json/sweep/v1/details/<Name>. Get the details of the items that we will be sweeping.
* DELETE /wp-json/sweep/v1/sweep/<Name>. Runs sweep for that particular item.
WP-Sweep WP-CLI Commands
* wp sweep --all. Runs sweep for all items.
* wp sweep <Name>. Runs sweep for that particular item.
* wp sweep <Name1> <Name2>. 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:
* Custom Fonts
* Elementor Popup Builder
* MailPress
* Meta Slider
* Polylang
* Slider Revolution
* Viba Portfolio
* WPML
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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.
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