Plugins Garbage Collector (Database Cleanup)

Description

Database Cleanup plugin scans the database and shows the tables beyond of core WordPress installation. Some WordPress plugins create and use its own database tables.
Those tables are left in your database after plugin deactivation and deletion often.
With the help of this plugin you can check your database and discover if it is clean or not.
Extra columns added to the core WordPress tables could be shown also.
To read more about ‘Plugins Garbage Collector’ visit this link at shinephp.com

Additional Documentation

You can find more information about “Plugins Garbage Collector” plugin at this page
https://www.shinephp.com/plugins-garbage-collector-wordpress-plugin/

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Installation

Installation procedure:

1. Deactivate plugin if you have the previous version installed.
2. Extract “plugins-garbage-collector.x.x.x.zip” archive content to the “/wp-content/plugins/plugins-garbage-collector” directory.
3. Activate “Plugins Garbage Collector” plugin via ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress admin menu.
4. Go to the “Tools”-“Plugins Garbage Collector” menu item and scan your WordPress database if it has some forgotten tables from old plugins.

FAQ

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Reviews

Great one. Did the job well.

Niharika Verma August 8, 2024

It showed all the tables for inactive plugins. I was bit afraid but it safely removed the unused data. Good one.

Great plugin without upsells/ads

veppa February 14, 2024

Love this plugin. Does what it says. Detects unused tables from deleted plugins and allows to delete them. If some tables with same prefix are not selectable you can use other database management software like phpmyadmin to delete them. Also be careful and always double check before deleting database tables.

very easy use

oodall February 9, 2023

Thank

Does the job as it should!

Victor Duse January 25, 2023

Thanks for a really nice plugin. I’ve used it on dozens of websites and it it works flawless. Here are a few suggestions for UX improvements that would make it five stars: Add a “Delete all unsused tables” button as a shortcut Make it possible to sort the rows by clicking “Table name”, “Records”, “KBytes” and “Plugin name” Display a summary of the amount of saved KBs after deleting unused tables. Keep upp the good work!

Easy and Efficient Plugin!

CharlesWorks November 24, 2022

This plugin is extremely simple to use and does exactly what it is supposed to do. I love being able to delete tables full of items left over from long removed plugins, making the database more compact and therefore speeding up the site.

I think the removal function is not working anymore

Maxcom July 18, 2022

The plugin will still show you what tables are either not in use or for a plugin that is not activated. Always do a full backup of your table prior to using this or any db plugin. I find the Duplicator plugin is a great way to backup databases and highly recommend that plugin – its free for databases and it will depend on your host configuration as to how large a site you can fully backup using it without needing the pro version. On my webhost 247wphosting.com I can use free duplicator even though my site is 2gb in size due to the images and large amount of content. When you checkmark a table now it hides it auto, and you have to rescan to see that it is checkmarked. Then if you hit the removal button at the bottom, you will go through some prompts and eventually it will perform the removal action and if you rescan it will no longer show the table. But if you go into mysql subsequently the tables are still there. So I think the author has an issue. So in summary the analysis of the database still works but the removal function does not work correctly, in my experience.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

0.14 [03.04.2022]

• Update: “Known plugins” JSON data files were moved from Amazon Web Services S3 to Yandex Cloud Object Storage.
• Update: “Delete Tables” button label was replaced with “Delete Selected Tables”.
• Update: Additional confirmation request was added before database tables deletion. It contains the list of tables selected for deletion.

Read changelog.txt for the full list of changes.