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Feathersweep Database Cleanup

Name: Feathersweep Database Cleanup
Author: lightningbyrd

The database janitor that knows what it is looking at. Cleans background-queue bloat, expired transients, trash and spam. Dry run first, always.

Feathersweep Database Cleanup ranks #50,702 among WordPress.org plugins with 1+ active installations, is #970 of 1,537 in the Performance category, a 1/5 rating from 0 reviews, and was last updated Sep 14, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v1.0.8 Current Version v1.0.8

Updated 1 week ago Last Update on 14 Sep, 2026

Refreshed 11 hours ago Last Refreshed on

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.0.8
Last Updated: Sep 14, 2026
Requires WP: 6.0+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: lightningbyrd

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Feathersweep Database Cleanup

Every site running a background queue logs everything it does, and those tables grow because completed work is kept for weeks and failed work is kept forever. Add expired sessions, expired transients that never get collected, trash, spam, and a handful of plugins autoloading megabytes of options into memory on every page view, and the site gets slower every month while backups balloon.

Dry run is on by default, so the first thing you get is a report rather than a deletion. Beyond that, the hard rules above hold regardless of settings: nothing inside its retention window, nothing pending or in-process, and no commerce data, ever.

Autoloaded options are read into memory on every request, so a few megabytes there taxes every page view for every visitor. The advisor lists options over 50 KB and lets you stop autoloading them. This is functionally safe: the option still exists and get_option() still returns it. WordPress simply stops preloading it. Every change is recorded with its original value and is one-click reversible, and core-critical options are never offered.

Deleting rows does not shrink the file on disk until OPTIMIZE TABLE runs. InnoDB reuses the freed space internally either way, and queries get faster immediately. Enable the OPTIMIZE TABLE pass only if you have a low-traffic window, because it briefly locks tables while reclaiming disk.

No. It is sharper on a store, because that is where the background queue works hardest, but the queue, transient, trash and autoload cleaners are useful on any WordPress site.

No. There are no outbound HTTP requests anywhere in the plugin.