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WP Transient Manager

See, search and clean up WordPress transients from Tools → Transient Manager

by Azan Umer · github.com/azanumer/wp-transient-manager · website

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Install

Download source zip No release zip yet

This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.

Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/azanumer/wp-transient-manager/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
No built-in updater. New versions won't appear under Dashboard → Updates. Install new releases yourself, or let Git Updater track the repository.
Readme github.com/azanumer/wp-transient-manager ↗

See, search and clean up WordPress transients from Tools → Transient Manager. Transients are WordPress's built-in temporary cache — stuck or expired ones bloat wp_options and slow every page load. This plugin lists them biggest first, so you can see exactly what is eating space.

Features

  • List all transients — name, serialized size and expiry, biggest first, 50 per page.
  • Search by transient name.
  • Delete expired — one click removes every transient whose timeout has passed (plus its timeout row).
  • Delete all — with a type-DELETE confirmation so you can't click it by accident.
  • Delete single — per-row delete with a JavaScript confirm.
  • Site transients — on multisite, a second tab lists _site_transient_* rows from wp_sitemeta.
  • Safe — only manage_options users can open the page; every action is nonce-checked. Deleting a transient never breaks a site: WordPress simply regenerates it on the next request.

Why it matters

A plugin that stores a 2 MB transient and never cleans it up adds 2 MB to every wp_options autoload query. Multiply that by a dozen sloppy plugins and your database is doing megabytes of useless work on every single request. This plugin makes that bloat visible — and removable in one click.

Installation

  1. Upload the plugin folder to /wp-content/plugins/.
  2. Activate it from Plugins.
  3. Go to Tools → Transient Manager.

Notes

  • Transients with no timeout row show "Never" — those are permanent until deleted.
  • Object-cache drop-ins (Redis/Memcached) store transients in memory instead of the database; this plugin lists the database rows, so it is most useful on sites without a persistent object cache.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.