Transients Manager
Provides a familiar interface to view, search, edit, and delete Transients.
5(38 reviews)
·20K+ active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, Transients Manager is a WordPress cron plugin with 20K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 38 reviews. It has been downloaded 528K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.3+ and PHP 5.6.20+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: WP Crontrol.
5/538 reviews
20K+active installs
528K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
Easily Manage Transients
This is a developer tool that provides a user interface to manage transients.
You can easily view, search, edit, and delete transients from Tools > Transients.
A toolbar toggle allows you to suspend transient updates to help with testing and debugging.
Features of Transients Manager
- Toolbar button to suspend transient writes
- View all transients in the database
- Edit the name, expiration, and value of any transient
- Delete any transient
- Search transients by name
- Bulk actions to delete: all, expired, unexpired, or persistent transients
Credits
This plugin is owned by Syed Balkhi and maintained by the WPBeginner team.
It was originally created by Pippin Williamson.
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Ratings & Reviews
538 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Useful
by Farzad·7 months ago
Just Perfect 😀
Excellent!
by Jihad Sinnaour·1 year ago
Useful dev tool
Works with WP 6.1.1
by pandammonium·3 years ago
This is invaluable for developing plugins with WP transients.
It’s an easy-to-use plugin that does one thing well.
It works in WP 6.1.1, although it contains some code deprecated in PHP8.2.
Useful tool when testing
by Alan Fuller·3 years ago
I find this plugin very useful when testing to search and delete specific transients
Perfect
by Beren·4 years ago
Worked perfectly to find and delete stale Jetpack transients! Running on WP 5.8.1.
Download Trends
Today: 138Yesterday: 225This week: 1KPeriod total: 77K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.3+ requiredTested up to 6.6.5 |
| PHP | 5.6.20+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.0
94.2%
Other
5.8%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.0.7 – October 18, 2024
- Fix: Security fix
Contributors
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