WP-Sweep Plugin

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

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.

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

1. 

   WP-Sweep Administrator Page (Before Sweeping)

2. 

   WP-Sweep Administrator Page (Swept)

Coming soon …

1.1.8

• FIXED: Added current_user_can() Check For AJAX Calls

1.1.7

• FIXED: Pass in default blank string to fix fatal error

1.1.6

• NEW: Re-org wp-sweep.php to inc/class-wpsweep.php
• NEW: Bump to WordPress 6.2

1.1.5

• NEW: Bump to WordPress 5.8

1.1.4

• FIXED: Replaced %_transient_% with %\_transient\_%. Escape _ in MySQL if not it is being used as a wildcard character. Props @janrenn.

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