Title: Nota Cleanup – Database & Site Optimizer Author: wpnota Published: July 9, 2026 Last modified: July 9, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/nota-cleanup/assets/icon-128x128.png?rev=3601406) # Nota Cleanup – Database & Site Optimizer By [wpnota](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wpnota/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/nota-cleanup.1.0.0.zip) * [Details](https://frp.wordpress.org/plugins/nota-cleanup/#description) * [Reviews](https://frp.wordpress.org/plugins/nota-cleanup/#reviews) * [Installation](https://frp.wordpress.org/plugins/nota-cleanup/#installation) * [Development](https://frp.wordpress.org/plugins/nota-cleanup/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/nota-cleanup/) ## Description Nota Cleanup scans your database first — read-only, nothing is touched — and shows you exactly what can be cleaned, category by category, each labeled by risk level. You choose what to remove; conservative defaults keep risky categories unchecked, so a single click can never surprise you. The cleanup engine is built for shared hosting: work runs in small time-budgeted batches chained in the background, so it never hits your server’s execution time limit, no matter how large your tables are. A stuck job can always be resumed with one click, and every run is logged. #### What it cleans * Expired transients (including site transients) * Orphaned post meta, comment meta, term relationships and user meta * Spam and trashed comments, trackbacks and pingbacks * oEmbed caches * Post revisions — with a “keep the most recent N” option * Auto-drafts older than 7 days * Old Action Scheduler entries (WooCommerce and other background tasks) * Trashed posts and pages (high risk — never selected by default) #### Autoloaded options report (unique) The report most cleaners don’t give you: the 10 largest autoloaded options and the total autoload size — the data loaded into memory on EVERY page view, the sneakiest performance killer on shared hosting. Report-only by design: deleting an option can break the plugin that owns it, so we tell you what to ask your developer instead of handing you a footgun. #### Table health A dedicated Tables tab shows the size, storage engine, and overhead of every table in your database, sorted so the most reclaimable table is always at the top. Optimize any single table with one click — no bulk “optimize everything” button, because a large table can briefly lock during an optimize and that should always be a deliberate, one-table-at-a-time choice. #### Weekly automatic cleanup Optionally run the low-risk categories automatically every week. Off by default— you turn it on only if you want it. #### Honest engineering notes * Deletions use direct SQL for speed; other plugins’ per-row delete hooks are not fired. Linked data (meta, comments, term relationships) is removed in the same run, so nothing is left dangling. * Term relationships are only cleaned for taxonomies registered to post types — unknown plugin taxonomies are left alone. * If your site uses an external object cache (Redis/Memcached), transients live there, not in the database; the plugin detects this and tells you, instead of silently doing nothing. * On some MySQL/MariaDB setups, InnoDB reports table overhead as a shared figure rather than a true per-table number. When we detect this, the Tables tab shows“ N/A” instead of a misleading number — Optimize still works normally. #### Safety, honestly The scan is always read-only. Before any cleanup runs, you see exact row counts and confirm; high-risk categories are never pre-selected. If you’d like a safety net first, the confirmation screen offers one-click access to our free Nota Backup& Restore plugin — no pressure, just a shortcut if you want it. ## Screenshots [⌊Read-only scan with risk-tiered categories — conservative defaults, one click to clean the ones you choose.⌉⌊Read-only scan with risk-tiered categories — conservative defaults, one click to clean the ones you choose.⌉[ Read-only scan with risk-tiered categories — conservative defaults, one click to clean the ones you choose. [⌊The autoload options report: the largest options loaded into memory on every page view.⌉⌊The autoload options report: the largest options loaded into memory on every page view.⌉[ The autoload options report: the largest options loaded into memory on every page view. [⌊Table health: size, engine, and overhead per table, with one-click Optimize.⌉⌊ Table health: size, engine, and overhead per table, with one-click Optimize.⌉[ Table health: size, engine, and overhead per table, with one-click Optimize. [⌊Cleanup history log: every run, what it touched, and when.⌉⌊Cleanup history log: every run, what it touched, and when.⌉[ Cleanup history log: every run, what it touched, and when. [⌊Settings: weekly automatic low-risk cleanup and revision retention.⌉⌊Settings: weekly automatic low-risk cleanup and revision retention.⌉[ Settings: weekly automatic low-risk cleanup and revision retention. ## Installation 1. Upload the plugin files to `/wp-content/plugins/nota-cleanup`, or install it directly through the Plugins screen in your WordPress admin. 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen. 3. Go to **Tools Nota Cleanup** (or click “Cleanup” under the plugin’s own row on the Plugins screen) to run your first scan. ## FAQ ### Is it safe to use? Yes. Scanning never modifies anything. Cleaning shows you exact counts and requires confirmation; high-risk categories (like trashed posts) are never pre-selected. Every run is logged with a timestamp, category, and row count so you can see exactly what happened. We still recommend a backup before any cleanup — the confirmation dialog offers one-click access to our free Nota Backup & Restore plugin if you’d like one. ### Will it time out on my cheap shared hosting? No — that’s the entire point of the plugin. Work happens in small batches inside a time budget derived from your server’s own execution time limit, chained together in the background. If a batch is somehow interrupted, a “Resume” option picks up right where it left off. ### Does it delete my trashed posts and pages? Only if you explicitly select that category — it is off by default and clearly marked as high risk, since it’s the one category that can’t be undone by rescanning. ### Does it work with an external object cache (Redis, Memcached)? Yes, but transients are automatically excluded from the scan on those setups, since transients live in the object cache rather than the database there — deleting database rows wouldn’t do anything. The plugin detects this and tells you. ### Does it support multisite? The plugin activates and runs per-site, cleaning that site’s own tables. It does not currently offer a network-wide dashboard for cleaning every site at once. ### Will this conflict with other cleanup or optimization plugins? Nota Cleanup only ever touches its own settings, log, and scheduled events on uninstall— it doesn’t modify how other plugins store or cache data. Running it alongside another cleanup plugin is safe, though you may see overlapping categories (like transients or revisions) reported by both. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Nota Cleanup – Database & Site Optimizer” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ wpnota ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wpnota/) [Translate “Nota Cleanup – Database & Site Optimizer” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/nota-cleanup) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/nota-cleanup/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/nota-cleanup/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/nota-cleanup/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/nota-cleanup/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.0.0 * Initial release: risk-tiered scanner, timeout-free chained cleanup engine, autoload options report, per-table size/engine/overhead report with one-click Optimize, weekly automatic cleanup, and a full cleanup history log. ## Meta * Version **1.0.0** * Last updated **15 hours ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 5.8 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.0.1** * PHP version ** 7.4 or higher ** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/nota-cleanup/) * Tags * [cleanup](https://frp.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/cleanup/)[database](https://frp.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/database/) [Optimize](https://frp.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/optimize/)[revisions](https://frp.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/revisions/) [transients](https://frp.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/transients/) * [Advanced View](https://frp.wordpress.org/plugins/nota-cleanup/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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