How to Optimize and Clean Up WordPress Database

 
As we all know databases are the core of every website. However; if you have been building your site for a long time, then it's time now that you think of cleaning and optimizing the database.

What are The Advantages Of Database Clean Up?

  • Speeds up your site ranking and obviously visitors experience.
  • Optimizes your database size and quota limitations if you are using a limited plan in the hosting service.
  • Delete unnecessary files and leftovers.

Before You Clean Your Database:

Before making any adjustments or clean ups, make sure you make a backup of your database. This will be useful and make you play safe if any thing wrong happens. You can rollback to the desired database if you carry backups ahead.

 

Which WordPress Plugin Clean Database to Use?

WordPress plugins portal is home for several utilities to clean and optimize the database. Yet, not all of them offer good functionalities or cleaning options. This may confuse you on which plugin to use especially for beginners. Most of users may now the WP-Optimize.

The latter is good enough at doing the task but to unlock all features you must buy the professional / paid version.

In this tutorial , we bring you a better choice and most of all it's 100% free and user-friendly. The plugin is WP Sweep which has more than 100,000 Active Installations.

Now it's time to show you how to use this powerful plugin to get your database cleaned up and optimized just in one click:

 

To download the mentioned plugin check the official site below:

 

What Does Wp Sweep plugin cleans up:

 
 
  • Revisions of posts or pages.
  • Orphaned comment meta.
  • Orphaned user meta.
  • Orphaned term meta.
  • Orphan term relationships.
  • Unused terms.
  • Auto drafts.
  • Deleted comments
  • Unapproved comments
  • Spammed comments
  • Deleted comments
  • Orphaned post meta
  • Duplicated post meta
  • Duplicated comment meta
  • Duplicated user meta
  • Duplicated term meta

All in all, that was our recommendation on how to optimize and clean up your WordPress database. Hope this tutorial helps you speed up and optimize your website to its best.

If you have any suggestions or feedback, we will be glad to read it in the comment section below.

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