CCleaner is one of the most popular junk removal tool for windows that lets you removed temporary and orphaned,unused entries in your Windows Registry, Similarly Clean Options is a WordPress plugin that lets you find orphaned options and allows for their removal from the wp_ options table.
Clean Options finds orphaned options in the wp_options table but are not referenced by “get_option” or “get_settings” by any of the PHP files located within your blog directory. If you have deactivated plugins and/or non-used themes in your directory, the associated options will not be considered orphaned until the files are removed.
How to Clean WordPress :
- Download and Install Clean Options plugin, After Activating the plugin, you would find the plugin under Tools, then click Find Orphaned Options.
- From the list of possibly orphaned options, select all and then click โView Selected Options Informationโ.
- Then see the list of options and its values and then select either YES | NO and click โSubmitโ to delete the options.
NOTE : It is strongly suggested that you BACKUP your database before removing any options.
Clean Options WP Plugin works with PHP >= 4.2.0 and PHP 5 and is compatible upto WP 2.9.2