Transient Cleaner vs Native Performance

Clean expired transients from your options table. The original and best! Transient housekeeping was added to the core of WordPress after version 5.8. However, I have decided to open up this plugin to all versions to allow for manual transient cleaning. Longer term I am working on a new version of the plugin, designed specifically for all WordPress releases. Tested up to PHP 8.2 Fully complies with WordPress coding standards Compliant with the stronger WordPress VIP coding standards, as well as compatibility with their platform Community plugin – visit the Github page to get involved with the latest code development, request enhancements and report issues “Transients are a simple and standardized way of storing cached data in the WordPress database temporarily by giving it a custom name and a timeframe after which it will expire and be deleted.” Unfortunately, expired transients only get deleted when you attempt to access them. If you don’t access the transient then, even though it’s expired, WordPress will not remove it. This is a known “issue” but due to reasons, which are explained in the FAQ, this has not been adequately resolved. Why is this a problem? Transients are often used by plugins to “cache” data (my own plugins included). Because of this it means that expired data can be left and build up, resulting in a bloated database table. Meantime, this plugin is the hero that you’ve been waiting for. Simply activate the plugin, sit back and enjoy a much cleaner, smaller options table. It also adds the additional recommendation that after a database upgrade all transients will be cleared down. The Settings Screen Within Administration -> Tools -> Transients an options screen exists allowing you to tweak when you’d like cleaning to happen, including the ability to perform an ad-hoc run, and when you’d like the to be automatically scheduled. You can even request an optimization of the options table to give your system a real “pep”! Running in Lite mode A “lite” mode is available. By activating this the options screen will no longer appear and default settings will be used. The advantage? Improved performance to Admin and, especially if you’re running multi-site, no chance of anybody “tinkering” with the settings. To activate, use the following… define( 'TC_LITE', true ); This should be added to your wp-config.php file. Using hooks If you’re the type of odd person who likes to code for WordPress (really?) then I’ve added a couple of hooks so you can call our rather neat cleaning functions… housekeep_transients – this will clear down any expired transients clear_all_transients – this will remove any and all transients, expired or otherwise Acknowledgements I’d like to thank WordPress Developer Andrew Nacin for his early discussion on this. Also, I’d like to acknowledge the useful article at Everybody Staze for ensuring the proposed solution made sense, and W-Shadow.com for the cleaning code. Iconography is courtesy of the very talented Janki Rathod.

Native Performance improves the performance of your WordPress, reducing site load times noticeably. This plugin is an all-in-one solution that incorporates a complete, powerful and robust core, which is constantly improved in each update and which aims to learn from all users to implement solutions, in the future, more effective. All the tools that the plugin incorporates are executed automatically, that is, you will not need to touch any adjustment, since it adapts to your site solving the problems. Native Performance, gathers a number of considerable characteristics, all of them have been tested beforehand so as not to generate future problems and, without any doubt, they are our best configuration for a fast site. Remove Dashicons in admin bar (only for non logged users) Remove Emoji’s styles and scripts Disable REST API (full disabled) Disable Heartbeat API Remove Query Strings from Static Resources Defer Parsing of JavaScript Remove Gravatar Query Strings Remove Really Simple Discovery link from header Remove wlwmanifest.xml (Windows Live Writer) from header Remove Shortlink URL from header Remove WordPress Generator Version from header Remove s.w.org DNS Prefetch Remove jquery_migrate Remove unnecessary links from header Remove generator name from RSS Feeds Remove Capital P Dangit filter Disable PDF thumbnails preview Optimization for WooCommerce & Contact Form 7 We are compatible with the main SEO plugins for WordPress, thanks to this you can improve the ranking in the search engines. In addition, you will have, at least, an improvement of 10 times the speed of your site. Important: The adjustments panel is in development, with this aim to incorporate new improvements in the features and more performance functions. Plugin Requirements This plugin requires WordPress 3.8.2 or greater This plugin requires PHP 5.0 or greater From within WordPress Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’ Search for ‘Native Performance’ Activate Native Performance from your Plugins page. Manually Upload the native-performance folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory. Activate the Native Performance plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.