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Cleanup Tools

Most operations you perform in WordPress can produce extra content that can build up in the database. While some you may consider keeping for a while, for most if it you need a way of deleting and cleaning up.

GD Press Tools Pro offers number of options and tools to remove things you don’t need and to optimize database for top performance. Open Plugin Tools panel, and first tab is called Cleanup. There are many options there, check the things you want gone, and click button Run Cleanup.

All options on this tab are divided into three groups: Content, Options and Database. First 4 options will remove trashed posts, trashed comments, spammed comments and revisions for published posts. Second part contains options to remove records from the comments, posts and commentmeta tables that is not in use any more. Orpahend records can be generated due to errors in the code execution, or running SQL queries that can leave mess after. Last option here is to remove all records from postmeta that have no value set.

Options block are for manipulating wp_options table: remove all cached RSS feeds, all transient records (these are safe to remove, WordPress will recreate them when needed) and forced removal of a record with all rewrite rules. Finally, Database block has one option: optimize all database tables to remove overhead.

After operation is done, you will get report on what exactly is done and how many records and data is removed.