LWS Cleaner Plugin

LWS Cleaner helps you clean your WordPress website. This gives it a second youth, fast and easily!
Clean your posts, comments, terms, users or even unused medias with a single click. Manage your files and delete non native files to ensure utmost security on your website.

Articles

The LWS Cleaner plugin allows you to clean up various content related to your articles in a few clicks:

• Delete article revisions
• Delete automatic drafts
• Delete articles in the recycle garbage can
• Delete orphan metadata from articles
• Delete duplicate metadata from articles
• Delete the oEmbed cache of article metadata

Comments

Clean up the comments area just as easily:

• Delete unapproved comments
• Delete unwanted comments
• Delete comments in the recycle garbage can
• Remove orphaned metadata from comments
• Remove duplicate metadata from comments
• Disable comments on the site

Terms

You can also clean up terms:

• Remove unused terms
• Remove orphaned metadata from terms
• Remove duplicate terms
• Remove orphaned relationships from terms

Users

• Delete duplicate user metadata
• Delete orphaned user metadata

Parameters

• Delete transients (cached data types in WordPress)
• Delete crons (crons schedule events automatically)

Plugins / themes

• Delete unused plugins
• Delete unused themes

Media

In this tab you will find a list of media that appear to be unused.

• Delete media in a grouped way
• Add media to the ignore list in a grouped way (to avoid deleting them by mistake)
• Delete / ignore media on a case by case basis
• Remove from the ignore list

Files

In this last tab, detect and delete non-WordPress native files found in your web files. Be sure to check if the folder/file in question is not useful to you. This system can help you free up space on your server and possibly find a suspicious file.

• Delete a non-native WordPress folder
• Delete a non-native file from WordPress

This plugin is pre-installed when ordering one of these LWS webhosts: WordPress hosting, Classic shared web hosting and cPanel hosting

License

Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

There are 3 different ways to install LWS Cleaner (as with any other wordpress.org plugin).

Using the WordPress dashboard

1. In WordPress, in the Extensions menu, click on “Add”
2. Search for the ‘LWS Cleaner’ plugin
3. Click ‘Install Now’
4. Activate the plugin

Uploading in WordPress Dashboard

1. Download the latest version of this plugin
2. In WordPress, in the Extensions menu, click on “Add”
3. Click on the top button “Upload an extension”
4. Select the zip file from your computer (zip file from step 1.)
5. Click ‘Install Now’
6. Activate the plugin

Using FTP

1. Download the latest version of this plugin
2. Unzip the zip file. This extracts the files from the compressed folder on your computer
3. Upload the LWS Cleaner folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory in your web space
4. Activate the plugin in WordPress

1. 

   LWS Cleaner Plugin Home

2. 

   Cleaning up blog posts

3. 

   Cleaning up comments

4. 

   Clean up of terms

5. 

   User cleanup

6. 

   Cleaning up parameters

7. 

   Plugins and themes cleanup

8. 

   Media cleanup

9. 

   File cleanup

2.4.1.2

• Fixed issue where activating a plugin from the plugin tab was not working
• Fixed a translation issue in French where orphaned terms relationships would say “unused terms” instead
• Fixed issue where parent theme would get deleted when removing unused themes

2.4.1.1

• Unexpected character sent on activation fixed. It could cause unexpected errors with the wp-cli

2.4.1

• Minor changes
• Can now remove specific theme/plugin instead of all of them

2.4

• Fixed bug where the POST page was not working
• Deleting duplicated metadata was deleting all of them. Now, will keep one metadata
• Changed duplicated terms to duplicated terms metadata, as it was not referring to the right thing
• Fixed orphan user metadata not getting deleted
• Fixed translations errors
• Bugs fixed

2.3.1

• CSRF vulnerability fix

2.3

• “Media” tab removed from the plugin due to unforseen problems
• The plugin should now load faster or even just launch, now

2.2.5

• Minor changes

2.2

• Fixed issue where loading the page could take a long time
• “Files” tab now loading when accessing it only, to prevent unecessary loadings
• Made some changes to the UI

2.1

• Preventive change for security
• New plugin added to “Our plugins”

2.0.3

• Mistranslations corrected for comments *
• New plugin promoted in the Our Plugins tab

2.0.2

• Missing translations fixed
• Error with the “Files” tab fixed when updating to a new WP version

2.0

• New design
• Bug fixes
• Optimisations
• Can now disable comments / hide comments

1.0.1

• Bug fixed : no more error when activating plugin

1.0

• Plugin created and published