Looking for the best database cleaner for WordPress? Look no further! Database Cleaner thoroughly cleans and optimizes your database with ease, offering both Easy and Expert modes to suit your expertise. Best of all, it handles even the largest databases effortlessly. Something no other plugin does as well!
Built on the success of its sibling, Media Cleaner, and years of experience with database tools, Database Cleaner was designed to overcome the limitations of other plugins. The result? A powerful, reliable, and user-friendly solution that sets a new standard in database cleaning.
Connected to AI Engine over MCP, your AI assistant can inspect your database, tell you what is safe to remove and clean it up with you in the loop. Like magic. ✨
Built for Big Databases
Effortlessly clean and optimize even the largest databases with smart, controlled queries.
Smart Plugin Awareness
Adapts to your setup, understanding which plugins and themes are in use for precise recommendations.
Beyond the Basics
Goes beyond temporary and trashed data, focusing on real optimizations that boost performance.
User-Friendly Interface
Powerful cleaning tools with an intuitive UI, perfect for beginners and experts alike.
Hassle-Free Automation
Set it, forget it, and let the Pro version clean your database quietly in the background.
Size Monitoring
Watch your database size over time and catch what makes it grow.
How Database Cleaner works
Your database carries everything WordPress has ever been asked to remember, including the parts you forgot about. Post revisions from 2019. Options left behind by plugins you deleted years ago. Transients that expired and were never collected. Tables belonging to software that is no longer installed. None of it is doing harm exactly, but it makes backups slower, migrations heavier, and queries fractionally worse every year.
Database Cleaner starts by measuring, not deleting. It reads the size of every table so you can see what is actually large, which is usually not what you expected. From there it groups what it finds into categories you can reason about: WordPress core leftovers like revisions, auto-drafts and orphaned metadata; options that no installed plugin claims; tables with no owner; and post types registered by code that is no longer running.
Each item tells you what it is and where it came from before you decide. That matters, because “unused” in a database is a judgement call: a table with no active plugin might still be the only copy of five years of form submissions. Database Cleaner shows its reasoning and lets you keep anything you are unsure about.
Once you have made those calls once, you should not have to make them again. Automatic cleaning runs the categories you have approved on a schedule, so revisions and expired transients never build up in the first place. Bulk actions handle the one-off tidy, and everything is reversible up to the point you confirm.
It pairs naturally with Media Cleaner: one clears the rows, the other clears the files. Run both and a site that has been alive for a decade starts behaving like one that was installed last week.
Free & Pro Versions
Free Version
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Remove Useless Data
Clean up revisions, trashed posts, old comments, transients, and more.
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Manage Tables
Identify unknown or unused tables and safely remove them.
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Optimize Options
Check which options are unused or poorly optimized and adjust their autoload settings.
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Post Type Cleanup
Tackle unnecessary post types that can slow down your WordPress.
Pro Version
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Everything from the Free Version
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Enhanced Plugin Insights
See which plugins or themes use specific tables, post types, and options for smarter cleaning
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Background Sweeping
Let the Nyao Sweeper clean your database automatically and stress-free.
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Advanced Analysis
Detailed insights and improved detection for more accurate and efficient cleaning.
Visit the Pro Version
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Reviews from WordPress
The new Database Cleaner King is here
This is by far the nicest plugin from the start that I used since a long time. I was using the other famous database cleaner plugin before this one, and it wasn’t updated since long time and it felt less relevant years after years.
Absolutely fabulous
The interface immediately provides in depth information about the status of the database. Fabulous. Cleaning the awful lot of “Orphaned Post Meta” that I mentioned before, took quite a while, but it shows a percentage progress. And even more important the plugin does this in small chunks to avoid time-out problems at the hosting server.
Finally a complete plugin
I already use the plugin on multiple site and are very satisfied with the functionality and UX, I hope in a constant development, the plugin is really complete and from valuable information on the status of the database.
Resolved my WooCommerce Issue
I tried to install WooCommerce onto my site and instantly experienced issues. My site ran incredibly slow and eventually became inoperable. I removed the plug-in using FTP access but anytime I tried to navigate to my shop page, the site would automatically redirect to my main homepage. After using Database Cleaner once, it resolved the issue and the site works as normal.