by Lester Chan 4.7 (138 reviews)

WP-Sweep

Name: WP-Sweep
Rating: 4.7 (138 reviews)
Author: Lester Chan

WP-Sweep allows you to clean up unused, orphaned and duplicated data in your WordPress. It also optimizes your database tables.

WP-Sweep ranks #292 among WordPress.org plugins with 100,000+ active installations, is #17 of 2,958 in the Discussion & Community category, a 4.7/5 rating from 138 reviews, and was last updated Aug 24, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1.4

v2.0.1 Current Version v2.0.1

Updated 2 months ago Last Update on 24 Aug, 2026

Refreshed 18 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#17 of 2,958 in Discussion & Community Top 1% by installs Downloads -37.3% this week

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100K+

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KW Avg Position

17.6

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Downloads

2.3M

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Support Resolved

100%

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Rating

94%

Review 4.7 out of 5

4.7 (138 reviews)

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Total Progress 94.5%

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4.7

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Plugin Details

Version: 2.0.1
Last Updated: Aug 24, 2026
Requires WP: 6.8+
Tested Up To: 7.1.4
PHP Version: 8.2 or higher
Author: Lester Chan

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7
Reviews: 138
Support Threads: 1
Resolved: 100%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

WP-Sweep is for WordPress site administrators and developers who want to keep their database lean and tidy. It removes unused, orphaned, and duplicated data such as revisions, spam comments, and orphaned metadata, and optimizes database tables.

Deletes post revisions and auto-drafts
Removes spam and unapproved comments
Cleans orphaned post/comment/user/term meta
Removes duplicated meta entries
Deletes unused terms
Optimizes database tables
Clears expired transient options
REST API and WP-CLI support

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about WP-Sweep

Every row has a checkbox and the table has a Sweep bulk action, so ticking the header checkbox and applying it does what Sweep All did — and lets you leave out the ones you do not want. My snippet calling WPSweep::get_instance() stopped working The classes are renamed in 2.0.0: WPSweep is now WP_Sweep WPSweep_Api is now WP_Sweep_API WPSweep_Command is now WP_Sweep_Command So WPSweep::get_instance()->sweep( 'revisions' ) becomes WP_Sweep::get_instance()->sweep( 'revisions' ). There is no compatibility alias, so the old name raises a fatal error rather than failing quietly. Every filter and every wp_sweep_admin_*_sweep action keeps the name it had.

Four per-type filters take a list of meta keys that must never be deleted, and each supports * as a wildcard: add_filter( 'wp_sweep_postmeta_whitelist', function ( $keys ) { $keys[] = '_my_plugin_setting'; $keys[] = '_acme_*'; return $keys; } ); The same applies to wp_sweep_commentmeta_whitelist, wp_sweep_usermeta_whitelist and wp_sweep_termmeta_whitelist. Terms are protected with wp_sweep_excluded_termids, and taxonomies are kept out of the orphaned term relationships sweep with wp_sweep_excluded_taxonomies. In 2.0.0 these lists also protect the duplicated meta sweeps, which the documentation always said they did and the code never did. A key I protected was swept anyway, or far too much was kept Before 2.0.0 the exclusion was a SQL LIKE clause, and LIKE treats an underscore as a single-character wildcard. A pattern of _my_key therefore also matched Xmy!key, and a good deal else. Matching happens in PHP now, so an underscore is an underscore and only * is a wildcard. Check your list if you were relying on the old behaviour.

Nothing. WP-Sweep stores no option rows, creates no database tables, registers no capabilities and schedules no events. uninstall.php runs anyway and sweeps up after itself across a whole network rather than the first hundred sites.