WUCO aka WP Ultimate Cleanup & Optimization, a free easy to use yet effective plugin designed to help you keep your MySQL database clean.
As of April 2026, WUCO is a WordPress cleanup plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 2.7K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 10 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP-Sweep.
WordPress stores a lot of excess information in your DB (like post revisions, auto drafts, spam and trashed comments, transient site options, etc.).
Of course there’s a reason for that and some of this data is needed once in a while, but most of it is not critical. It just sits there taking up space and never being used.
Over the time as your site grows the volume of this unused data grows with it making your database unreasonably huge thus effecting the site’s overall performance.
Using WUCO you can easily and safely clean up your database from those useless entries. With a single click you can remove revisions, drafts, auto drafts, orphaned post and comment meta, transient data and much more. You can also schedule the cleanups for later and they will be run automatically kee…
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 4.2.39 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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