WP-Sweep

Contributors: GamerZ
Donate link: https://lesterchan.net/site/donation/
Tags: sweep, clean, cleanup, clean up, optimize, orphan, unused, duplicated, posts, post meta, comments, comment meta, users, user meta, terms, term meta, term relationships, revisions, auto drafts, transient, database, tables, oembed Requires at least: 4.6
Tested up to: 5.6
Stable tag: 1.1.3
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

WP-Sweep allows you to clean up unused, orphaned and duplicated data in your WordPress. It also optimizes your database tables.

Description

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:

• Asgaros Forum
• Custom Fonts
• Elementor Popup Builder
• MailPress
• Meta Slider
• Polylang
• Slider Revolution
• Viba Portfolio
• WPML

Build Status

Development

• https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-sweep

Credits

• Plugin icon by Freepik from Flaticon

Donations

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.

Changelog

1.1.3

• FIXED: Changed permissions check to activate_plugins because update_plugins will return false when DISALLOW_FILE_MODS=true.

1.1.2

• NEW: Changed permission check to update_plugins for better MultiSite compatibility.
• NEW: Bump min PHP version to 5.6.

1.1.1

• NEW: wp_sweep_excluded_termids filter.

1.1.0

• NEW: Added WP Rest API Endpoint support, sweep/v1/count/<Name>, sweep/v1/details/<Name>, and sweep/v1/sweep/<Name>
• FIXED: Follow as close as possible to WordPress Coding Standards

1.0.12

• NEW: Bump to WordPress 4.9
• NEW: Update README to incompatible plugins

1.0.10

• FIXED: Invalid plugin head 'This plugin has an invalid header.'

1.0.9

• NEW: Support for Codeclimate
• FIXES: Uses get_sites() on WordPress 4.6. This should fix deprecated notices.
• FIXES: Fixes translation placeholder count. Props @pedro-mendonca.
• FIXES: Use manage_options capability as it conflicts with Admin Menu Editor on multisite installs. Props @EusebiuOprinoiu.

1.0.8

• NEW: Added wp_sweep_excluded_taxonomies filter to allow more than just link_category taxonomy
• NEW: Support for WP-CLI wp sweep

1.0.7

• FIXES: Use custom query to delete Orphaned Term Relationship if wp_remove_object_terms() fails

1.0.6

• NEW: Delete 'languages' folder from the plugin
• NEW: Use translate.wordpress.org to translate the plugin
• FIXED: Works only with WordPress 4.4 because of new term meta

1.0.5

• FIXED: apply_filters() wrong arguments

1.0.4

• NEW: oEmbed caches in post meta Sweep
• NEW: Add POT file for translators

1.0.3

• NEW: AJAX Sweep All
• NEW: AJAX Sweeping
• NEW: View details of sweep
• NEW: Optimize DB sweep
• NEW: User hint and confirmation. Props @SiamKreative
• FIXED: Division by zero. Pros @barisunver

1.0.2

• FIXED: Use term_id for wp_remove_object_terms()
• FIXED: number_format_i18n() issues after sweeping

1.0.1

• NEW: Moved plugin location to WP-Admin -> Tools -> Sweep
• NEW: Add Deleted Post Sweep
• FIXED: Use forced_delete for wp_delete_post() and wp_delete_comment();
• FIXED: If orphaned meta has an object id of 0, use SQL query to delete

1.0.0

• Initial release

Installation

1. Upload wp-sweep folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the WP-Sweep plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. You can access WP-Sweep via WP-Admin -> Tools -> Sweep

Screenshots

1. WP-Sweep Administrator Page (Before Sweeping)
2. WP-Sweep Administrator Page (Swept)

Frequently Asked Questions

Coming soon ...

Upgrade Notice

N/A