List Of Sweepers

ArticleGeneralSweepPressApril 22, 2024July 19, 2026

Contents

1 Posts
2 Comments
3 Terms
4 Options
5 Users
- 5.1 Usermeta Orphans
- 5.2 Usermeta Duplicates
6 Network
7 ActionScheduler
8 bbPress
- 8.1 Orphaned Replies
9 BuddyPress
10 Elementor
- 10.1 Elementor Trashed Submissions
11 GravityForms
12 Database
- 12.1 Optimize Database Tables
- 12.2 Repair Database Tables

Posts

Auto Drafts

Remove auto draft posts.

Code: posts-auto-draft
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: Yes
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: High

Spam Content

Remove spammed posts.

Code: posts-spam
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: High

Trashed Content

Remove trashed posts.

Code: posts-trash
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: High

Posts Revisions

Remove posts revisions.

Code: posts-revisions
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: Yes
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: High

Draft Posts Revisions

Remove revisions for posts with draft status.

From plugin version: 3.6

Code: posts-draft-revisions
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: High

Posts Orphaned Revisions

Remove revisions that are no longer belong to any posts.

Code: posts-orphaned-revisions
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: Yes
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: High

Postmeta Locks

Remove all ‘_edit_lock’ records from the postmeta database table.

Code: postmeta-locks
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: High

Postmeta Last Edits

Remove all ‘_edit_last’ records from the postmeta database table.

Code: postmeta-edits
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: High

Postmeta Old Posts Data

Remove all ‘_wpold*’ records from the postmeta database table.

From plugin version: 3.6

Code: postmeta-old
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: No
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: No
Backup: Yes
Monitor: No
Requirements: Normal

Postmeta Oembeds

Remove all ‘oembed‘ and ‘_oembedtime‘ records from the postmeta database table.

Code: postmeta-oembeds
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: No
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: No
Monitor: No
Requirements: High

Postmeta Orphans

Remove all records from the postmeta database table that are no longer connected to posts.

Code: postmeta-orphans
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: Yes
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: High

Postmeta Duplicates

Remove all duplicated records from the postmeta database table.

From plugin version: 6.0

Code: postmeta-duplicates
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: No
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: High

Comments

Spam Comments

Remove spammed comments.

Code: comments-spam
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: Normal

Trashed Comments

Remove trashed comments.

Code: comments-trash
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: Normal

Unapproved Comments

Remove unapproved comments.

Code: comments-unapproved
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: Normal

Orphaned Comments

Remove comments that don’t belong to any of the existing posts.

Code: comments-orphans
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: Yes
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: High

Comments User Agents

Remove user agent information stored with every comment.

Code: comments-user-agent
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: No
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: No
Backup: No
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: Normal

Commentmeta Orphans

Remove all records from the commentmeta database table that are no longer connected to comments.

Code: commentmeta-orphans
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: Yes
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: Normal

Commentmeta Duplicates

Remove all duplicated records from the commentmeta database table.

From plugin version: 6.0

Code: commentmeta-duplicates
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: No
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: High

Pingbacks Cleanup

Remove pingbacks from the database.

Code: pingbacks-cleanup
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: No
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: Normal

Trackbacks Cleanup

Remove trackbacks from the database.

Code: trackbacks-cleanup
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: No
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: Normal

Akismet Meta

Remove meta records stored with comments by Akismet Anti Spam plugin.

From plugin version: 1.1

Code: akismet-meta
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: No
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: No
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: Normal

Terms

Terms Orphans

Remove all records from the terms database table that are no longer connected to taxonomies.

Code: terms-orphans
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: Yes
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: Normal

Unused Terms

Remove all terms that are no longer associated with any posts.

From plugin version: 6.0

Code: terms-unused
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: No
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: No
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: Normal

AMP Validation Errors Terms

Remove all records from all the terms related database tables belonging to the AMP plugin used for validation errors.

Code: terms-amp-errors
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: No
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: No
Backup: Yes
Monitor: No
Requirements: Normal

Termmeta Orphans

Remove all records from the termmeta database table that are no longer connected to terms.

Code: termmeta-orphans
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: Yes
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: Normal

Termmeta Duplicates

Remove all duplicated records from the termmeta database table.

From plugin version: 6.0

Code: termmeta-duplicates
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: No
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: High

Term Relationships Object Orphans

Remove all records from the term_relationships database table that are no longer connected to posts table.

From plugin version: 6.0

Code: term-relationships-object-orphans
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: Normal

Term Relationships Taxonomy Orphans

Remove all records from the term_relationships database table that are no longer connected to term_teaxonomy table.

From plugin version: 6.0

Code: term-relationships-taxonomy-orphans
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: Normal

Options

Expired Transients

Remove all transient records that have expired. These options are used for caching purposes by WordPress and plugins.

Code: expired-transients
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: Yes
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: No
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: Normal

RSS Feeds

Remove all cached RSS feeds records.

Code: rss-feeds
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: Yes
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: No
Monitor: No
Requirements: Normal

Transients

Remove all transient records. These options are used for caching purposes by WordPress and plugins.

Code: all-transients
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: No
Monitor: No
Requirements: Normal

CRON Jobs

Remove all currently scheduled CRON Jobs in WordPress CRON Scheduler

Code: cron-jobs
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: No
Monitor: No
Requirements: Normal

Unhooked CRON Jobs

Remove CRON Jobs from WordPress CRON Scheduler no longer having action hooked.

Code: unhooked-cron-jobs
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: No
Monitor: No
Requirements: Normal

Users

Usermeta Orphans

Remove all records from the usermeta database table that are no longer connected to users.

Code: usermeta-orphans
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: Yes
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: High

Usermeta Duplicates

Remove all duplicated records from the usermeta database table.

From plugin version: 6.0

Code: usermeta-duplicates
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: No
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: High

Network

Inactive User Signups

Remove all inactive records from the multisite user Signups database table.

Code: inactive-signups
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: Normal

Network Transients

Remove all network transient records. These options are used for caching purposes by WordPress and plugins.

Code: all-network-transients
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: No
Monitor: No
Requirements: Normal

Expired Network Transients

Remove all network transient records that have expired. These options are used for caching purposes by WordPress and plugins.

Code: network-expired-transients
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: Yes
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: No
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: Normal

ActionScheduler

ActionScheduler Log Orphans

Remove all records from the actionscheduler_logs database table that are no longer connected to actions.

Code: actionscheduler-log-orphans
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: Yes
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: Normal

ActionScheduler Log

Remove all records from the actionscheduler_logs database table based on the actions group.

Code: actionscheduler-log
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: No
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: Normal

ActionScheduler Canceled Actions

Remove all the canceled actions from the ActionScheduler.

From plugin version: 2.2

Code: actionscheduler-actions-canceled
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: No
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: Normal

ActionScheduler Completed Actions

Remove all the completed actions from the ActionScheduler.

From plugin version: 2.2

Code: actionscheduler-actions-complete
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: No
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: Normal

ActionScheduler Failed Actions

Remove all the failed actions from the ActionScheduler.

From plugin version: 2.2

Code: actionscheduler-actions-failed
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: No
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: Normal

bbPress

Orphaned Replies

Remove all bbPress replies and their meta records if those replies are orphaned and no longer connected to terms.

From plugin version: 6.0

Code: bbpress-orphaned-replies
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: No
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: Normal

BuddyPress

Activity Meta Orphans

Remove all records from the BuddyPress activity meta database table that are no longer connected to terms.

From plugin version: 4.0

Code: buddypress-activity-meta-orphans
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: Yes
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: Normal

Groups Meta Orphans

Remove all records from the BuddyPress groups meta database table that are no longer connected to terms.

From plugin version: 4.0

Code: buddypress-groups-meta-orphans
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: Yes
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: Normal

Messages Meta Orphans

Remove all records from the BuddyPress messages meta database table that are no longer connected to terms.

From plugin version: 4.0

Code: buddypress-messages-meta-orphans
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: Yes
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: Normal

Notifications Meta Orphans

Remove all records from the BuddyPress notifications meta database table that are no longer connected to terms.

From plugin version: 4.0

Code: buddypress-notifications-meta-orphans
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: Yes
Auto Sweep: Yes
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: Normal

Elementor

Elementor Trashed Submissions

Remove all all trashed submissions from forms in Elementor Pro.

Code: elementor-trashed-submissions
Scope: Blog
Quick Sweep: No
Auto Sweep: No
Sweeper Job: Yes
Backup: Yes
Monitor: Yes
Requirements: Normal