by David Artiss 5 (23 reviews)

Transient Cleaner

Name: Transient Cleaner
Rating: 5.0 (23 reviews)
Author: David Artiss

Clean expired transients from your options table. The original and best!

Transient Cleaner ranks #5,438 among WordPress.org plugins with 1,000+ active installations, is #179 of 1,658 in the Performance category, a 5/5 rating from 23 reviews, and was last updated Aug 20, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v1.7 Current Version v1.7

Updated 2 months ago Last Update on 20 Aug, 2026

Refreshed 1 week ago Last Refreshed on

#179 of 1,658 in Performance Top 10% by installs Downloads +6.1% this week

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1K+

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KW Avg Position

88.4

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127.2K

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Review 5 out of 5

5 (23 reviews)

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Total Progress 79.9%

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.7
Last Updated: Aug 20, 2026
Requires WP: 4.4+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: David Artiss

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Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5
Reviews: 23
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who want to keep their options table free of expired transient data. It solves the problem of expired transients not being automatically deleted, which can cause the database to become bloated.

Cleans expired transients
Ad-hoc cleaning runs
Scheduled automatic cleaning
Options table optimization
Lite mode for default settings
Clears transients after database upgrade
housekeep_transients hook
clear_all_transients hook

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Transient Cleaner

Because transient housekeeping was fixed in WordPress 5.9, so it's not needed!

Once a day and, by default, at midnight. However, the hour at which is runs can be changed in the settings screen. It should be noted too that this will only run once the appropriate hour has passed AND somebody has been onto your site (with anybody visiting, the scheduler will not run).

A transient may consist of one or more records (normally a timed transient - the type that expires - has two) and without checking and matching them all up it can sometimes be hard to work out. So, where possible, it'll tell you the number of transients but, where it can't, it'll refer to the number of records on the database.

No. It was developed for WordPress and so forks remain unsupported. I have no intention of developing and testing this on any other version.