Delete Expired Transients is a WordPress app, with a 5.0 average rating from 13 reviews, as of Jul 16, 2026.
Delete Expired Transients is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by webaware. With a rating of 5.0★ from 13 reviews.
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Delete Expired Transients is a category-leading WordPress app with a limited review volume. It is listed in the Transients category on WordPress Plugin Directory, which AppRanks treats as the canonical taxonomy node for ranking and competitor comparison. 13 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (5.0★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by webaware — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (13) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Delete Expired Transients works
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Delete old, expired transients from the WordPress options table (wp_options), to prevent them from bloating your database and even slowing down your website.
Unless you are using an object cache (like memcached), WordPress stores transient records in the options table. Many transients are given an expiration time, so in theory they should disappear after some time. In practise, because old transients are only deleted when requested again after they’ve expired, many transients stay in the database. After a while, there can be thousands or even millions of expired transients needlessly taking up space in your options table, depending on what your plugins are doing.
Delete Expired Transients schedules a daily task to delete any expired transients from the options table. It performs this operation with a single SQL query, and then runs a second query to find any orphaned expiration records and deletes them too.
There are a few other plugins around that clean up expired transients. This one is written for fast performance, set-and-forget scheduled housekeeping, and maximum compatibility. It uses the PHP time to determine whether transients are expired, not the database time (which can be different). It does only one job, and it does it well with the minimum of resources.
Now optimised for WordPress Multisite.
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Privacy Delete Expired Transients does not collect any personally identifying information, and does not set any cookies. It removes some old information from the database, potentially reducing a website’s exposure to leakage of personally identifying information.
Category rankings
As of Jul 16, 2026- Expired#0of 1Top 1%
- Transient#0of 5Top 1%
- Transients#0of 9Top 1%
- Wp_options#0of 2Top 1%
- Cache#48of 369Top 14%
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Competitors & alternatives
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Where Delete Expired Transients stands in the Transients category
Delete Expired Transients ranks #0 of 9 apps in the Transients category, placing it in the top 1% of the listing.
Frequently asked questions
What is Delete Expired Transients?
Delete Expired Transients is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 5.0-star rating from 13 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. It is listed under the Transients category on AppRanks, where you can see its current category position, review-velocity trend, and how it compares against the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by webaware.
Who uses Delete Expired Transients?
Currently around 5,000 active stores have installed Delete Expired Transients. Its review base is still building, which usually maps to early-stage merchants and stores piloting a new workflow. It is part of the Transients category on WordPress.