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Plugins Garbage Collector (Database Cleanup)

by Vladimir Garagulya

Version: 0.14

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
http://www.shinephp.com/plugins-garbage-collector-wordpress-plugin/

I am ready to answer on your questions about this plugin usage. Use plugin page comments or site contact form for that please.

Installation

Installation procedure:

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

Screenshots

screenshot-1.png Plugins Garbage Collector scan action results.

Faq

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Reviews

Plugins Garbage Collector keeps on working ...

By nealumphred on November 30, 2024

If you experiment with plugins—you know, trying eight of them out to pick the one that works for you—or you have been around for a while and have activated, deactivated, and deleted a bunch of plugins over the years, Plugins Garbage Collector (Database Cleanup) is for you.

Complaint: This plugin has not been updated for more than three years, nor does the developer pay any attention to Support here. Nonetheless, Plugins Garbage Collector (Database Cleanup) keeps on working ...

Great one. Did the job well.

By Niharika Verma (niharikaverma95) on 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

By veppa on 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

By oodall (ood99) on February 9, 2023

Thank

Does the job as it should!

By Victor Duse (divimundo) on 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!

By CharlesWorks (charlesworks) on 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

By Maxcom on 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.

Stopped working

By Gustavo Gonzalez (GustavoGlez) on July 2, 2022

I don't know at what point it stopped working. It no longer detects tables left behind by uninstalled plugins and simply displays a message saying that the database is optimized. It is no longer useful.

Great, quick table deletion plugin!

By intcultcom on April 19, 2022

It does what it says on the tin. I deleted a bunch of tables leftover from plugins I wasn't using in less than 5 minutes.

shift to russian yandex cloud

By moisture9063 (ngrhd) on April 3, 2022

The author didn't provide any specific reason provide for shift from S3 to Yandex. It seems there's a hidden political message of supporting an oppressive regime.

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.

Version:Version: 0.14
Active installs:Active installs: 10K
Last updated:Last updated: 03-04-2022
Requires:Requires: 4.0
Tested:Tested: 5.9.10

Average rating:4.4 out of 5 stars.

Number of ratings: 73 ratings
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