Transient Cleaner
Clean expired transients from your options table. The original and best!
5(23 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 4 months agoAs of April 2026, Transient Cleaner is a WordPress cache plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 23 reviews. It has been downloaded 127K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.4+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Downloads are up 33% this week. Top alternative: WP-Optimize – Cache, Compress images….
5/523 reviews
1.0K+active installs
127K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
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](https://github.com/dartiss/[repo link] “Github”) to get involved with the latest code development, request enhancements and report issues
“Transients are a simple and standardized way of storing ca…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Very usefull for dev !
by naturohair·1 year ago
Very usefull for development with WordPress!
Still works!
by Organized Themes·2 years ago
Had to clean the transients, rather than wait for WordPress to do it, in our multisite (site by site) and it worked great. Thank you for this plugin :).
Really useful
by Hugues·8 years ago
Thanks for a great little plugin David. It’s one of those things that just works!
Saved my bacon more than once when some theme or plugin updates just wouldn’t register because of old transients. Used it just now again to clear a couple unwanted items in a site database options table.
Keep up the great work
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It worked for me!
by pmfeo·8 years ago
I used it to fix Instagram feed widget and worked perfectly. Thank you!
Solid plugin for cleaning expired transients
by Luke Cavanagh·8 years ago
It just works.
Download Trends
Today: 15Yesterday: 17This week: 108Period total: 5K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.4+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.7
79.4%
v1.5
17.0%
Other
3.6%
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Changelog
I use semantic versioning, with the first release being 1.0.
1.7
- Enhancement: Code quality improvements – major code changes to make sure all code guidelines are met
- Enhancement: Using new cross-plugin shared functions
- Enhancement: Tidy up of this README
Contributors
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