What’s the manual procedure to COMPLETELY remove this plugin? Ideally plugins such as this is definitely expected to have a built-in feature to “remove plugin data when uninstalled”.

How to completely remove all the data of hCaptcha after plugin deletion?

Thanks!

I dont need this plugin anymore, so I want to completely remove all of its data. The plugin does not provide a clean uninstallation option. Can you please guide me on how to remove all the plugin data from my site?

Thanks!

Just make a backup copy of WP directory via Directadmin (in my case) in new tab.
Cleanup WP directory with left overs from old plugins. Tables, options, etc.
Good check if the site is working properly.
I make a second backup copy. (I keep the old one, just in case off….)

Great plugin!

We’ve used smush in the past, but stopped using it. I noticed that there are still many entries in the wp_postmeta table related to mush, with the following meta keys:

• smush-marked
• wp-smush-ignore-bulk
• wp-smush-resize_savings
• smush-stats
• smush-info
• smush-complete
• wp-smush-lossy
• wp-smpro-smush-data

These account for about 10% of wp_postmeta entries. Can these be removed safely, now that Smush is no longer used, or will this change the way the posts are displayed?

Best regards and thanks, Roel

I couldn’t find a good solution for my problem, so I decided to make a topic.

My DB is enormous (783MB!) and the bigest tables are wp_postmeta (637MB) and wp_post (123MB). I have tried to clean it up by various plugins but there is no effect.

I found queries to check what I could delete:

1. Select from wp_postmeta by meta_key with counting

SELECT meta_key, COUNT( meta_key ) FROM wp_postmeta GROUP BY meta_key

Result:

meta_key
_additional_settings 4
_auxin_meta_client 8
_auxin_meta_release_date 8
_display_related 8
_dp_original 27
_edit_last 52
_edit_lock 193
_elementor_controls_usage 387
_elementor_css 25
_elementor_data 1767
_elementor_edit_mode 1788
_elementor_page_assets 715
_elementor_page_settings 1656
_elementor_source_image_hash 16
_elementor_template_type 1804
_elementor_version 1791
_form 4
_format_audio_embed 35
_format_audio_player_skin 35
_format_quote_source_name 35
_format_quote_source_url 35
_format_video_embed 35
_format_video_player_skin 35
_hash 4
_locale 4

2. Order meta_key by size:

SELECT meta_key, (SUM(LENGTH(meta_id)+LENGTH(post_id)+LENGTH(meta_key)+LENGTH(meta_value)))/1048576 AS Size, COUNT(*) AS Count FROM wp_postmeta GROUP BY meta_key ORDER BY Size DESC; 

Result:

 meta_key		   size		count
_elementor_data		   568.7895 	1767
_elementor_controls_usage  3.3453 	387
_wp_attachment_metadata    0.5746 	660
_elementor_page_settings   0.1319 	1656
_elementor_page_assets 	   0.0943 	715
_wp_page_template 	   0.0840	1786
_elementor_template_type   0.0701 	1804
_elementor_edit_mode 	   0.0628 	1788
_elementor_version 	   0.0566 	1791
_wp_attached_file 	   0.0455 	830

3. Select entries without ID from wp_posts and wp_postmeta:

SELECT *
FROM wp_postmeta pm
LEFT JOIN wp_posts wp ON wp.ID = pm.post_id
WHERE wp.ID IS NULL

And here the result is just few rows of meta key called “auxin-autop” and deleting them obviously doesn’t solve the problem. Probably this query is not valid for this problem?

To sum up.

I understand that I should delete Elementor data but how would I know which I can remove without breaking my site?

Thank you in advance for helping me with my issue!

Will you be adding an option to clean the post and postmeta tables from WooCommerce data once the HPOS option is stable?

We have over 2.5M postmeta entries related to WooCommerce order/subscriptions/addresses that slow down a lot our website. The main purpose of the HPOS feature is to avoid that, but if there is no way to clean the data once the sync is done, it doesn’t help much.

If you don’t intend to add an option to clean the wc data from the post/postmeta tables, could you tell me if it’s safe to run DELETE queries on these tables for shop_order/shop_subscription posts?

Thank you

Initially I had to slow down the plugin so the website didn’t crash (which is a good thing, it is really awesome that you have resource settings!!!).

In total it took 6 hours for the plugin to completely scan the website, the media libraries and match it with the online content. Only just minor hickups – no crashes. The auto retry function worked sublime.

There was not a false positive. Not even one! With the right settings, this plugin really works unlike any other.

I give this plugin, especially the pro version, a big fat 5 stars. Well done.