Transient Cleaner vs Flash Cache

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.

Flash Cache is a powerful plugin which optimizes the websites speed thanks to processes and technologies that reduces the overload of the websites where it is installed, improving the velocity till 10x comparing with other cache plugins for WordPress. With the Flash Cache plugin you will be able to: Increase the speed at which your site is displayed to the end user. Reduce the use of server resources when there are many visitors. Create a more enjoyable experience for the user. Help with the positioning and the SEO of the web site. Decrease the workload on the system behind the cache. And if that’s not enough for you, read on for many more benefits. Some Features The most important characteristics that makes this add-on the first choice comparing to others are the next ones: The Flash Cache plugin is tested with the most important servers that can run WordPress, such as Apache, nginx and LiteSpeed and supports PHP 5.6 to 8.2. Flash Cache allows infinities configurations thanks to the patterns, these can be done with different cache patterns according the kind of page that will be cached. It avoid the PHP execution in foreground at time of serve the cache objects, improving significantly the performance and the overload of the server. Crawl Budget optimization, the majority of the search engines assigns a quantity of means to go over the websites, with Flash Cache a higher number of pages are indexes and is better positioned in the search engines. It allows keep the content in the cache updating instantaneously when is modified, for example, when a new post is added, it creates a cache object of the post and it can refresh other pages automatically as the homepage. In addition to optimizing the cache on the server, it manages the cache in the web browser improving the performance in client-side and server-side. It allows to make a preload of the entire website, to keep a cache of all the site optimized and configurable. Most of the cache plugins in WordPress break the website structure, and this brings problems at the time of move the websites to another hosting or domain. This problem doesn’t exist with Flash Cache. You only need to deactivate the cache and the plugin you can change the hosting of the website and reinstalled the Flash Cache without problems. Known third-party plugins or theme compatibility issues In some cases, there are compatibility issues with other plugins. Most of the time this is caused by other plugins inserting javascript or styles in a wrong or weird way. Shortcodes Ultimate: Uncaught ReferenceError: SUShortcodesL10n is not defined. Translations Many thanks to the generous efforts of all translators. If you’d like to help out by translating this plugin, please sign up for an account and dig in.