Transient Cleaner
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.
wao.io Cache Control
wao.io Cache Control is a free plugin to clear your WordPress site’s cache at wao.io. Cache Control Use this plugin to control your site’s cache at wao.io. Click on the Invalidate Origin Content button to clear your optimized WordPress website’s cache at wao.io to make sure that you and your customers will see the latest version of your content. Cache invalidation will automatically be triggered after publishing or updating a post or a page, and after switching a theme. Cache invalidation treats all content in the cache as if it was outdated. This means that wao.io will check on the next request if the content changed on the origin server. If so, it will be requested. Otherwise wao.io will continue to use the cached resource. This is especially useful if you changed only a few images and the majority of content remained unmodified. Settings In the wao.io Cache Control Settings section of your general WordPress settings, please enter your Site ID, and the API key that you obtained from wao.io’s support team. If you do not have an API key yet, please contact wao.io support. In future versions of this plugin, you can disable or enable automatic cache invalidation here. Automatic Cache Invalidation Automatic cache invalidation will make WordPress try to invalidate your optimized WordPress website’s cache at wao.io automatically each time your content has changed, e.g. after publishing a page or uploading an image. Known Issues Some WordPress sites reported a bug that the publish / update post event did not fire when using the block editor (Gutenberg issue #17632). This may affect the plugin wao.io Cache Control which depends on the event for automatic cache invalidation. Development and Contribution wao.io Cache Control plugin for WordPress was developed for wao.io by Ingo Steinke, Senior Software Developer at Avenga Germany GmbH. If you want to contribute to this plugin, please contact wao.io product development via our website wao.io.
