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Clean Expired Transients

Safest and simplest transients garbage collector.

By Milan Dinić·Transient·Free
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·10 active installs·Updated 7 years ago
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As of April 2026, Clean Expired Transients is a WordPress transient plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 2.4K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP 5.2.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 7 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Transients Manager.

0/5Rating
10active installs
2.4K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015

Overview

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This plugin cleans every transient from database older than one minute using safe native WordPress function. It works on multisite too.

By default, it will check for expired transients once daily, though you can call it any time using Clean_Expired_Transients::clean();.

Clean Expired Transients is a very lightweight, it has no settings, just activate it and it works immediately.

Note that it can be used by developers in their project in any place, it doesn’t require activation and it’s safe to use since it checks is there existing installation, just include it.

And it’s on GitHub.

Read full description on WordPress.org

Ratings & Reviews

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Compatibility

WordPress4.0+ requiredTested up to 5.1.22
PHP5.2.4+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.2

  • Released on 17th December 2016
  • Removed plugin action links
  • Added cleaning of temporaries after cleaning of transients is finished.
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Milan DinićMilan Dinić
Plugin Info
Version
1.2
Last Updated
Feb 24, 2019
WP Requires
4.0+
Tested Up To
5.1.22
PHP Requires
5.2.4+
Active Installs
10
Downloads
2.4K+
Added
May 4, 2015
Business
Free

Tags

transienttransients

Developer

M
Milan Dinić
21 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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