EHERO Cleaner – Clean the WordPress database in one click

Clean the WordPress database in one click, without risks and without touching your content

With EHERO Cleaner you can clean the WordPress database safely: remove revisions, transients, spam and plugin junk from +25 tools, with backup and scheduled cleaning.

Over time, any website accumulates an invisible layer of junk: expired transients, dozens of revisions per post, automatic drafts, spam comments, broken term relationships and orphaned metadata from plugins you uninstalled last year. If you run a store, add thousands of completed Action Scheduler actions, expired sessions and old download logs. None of that is visible from the editor, but it bloats wp_postmeta, wp_options and wp_actionscheduler_* until they become hundreds of megabytes of dead weight.

The result shows up every day: a dashboard that takes forever to load, huge backups, endless migrations and SQL queries that drag down the response times of the whole site. Cleaning the WordPress database is one of the maintenance tasks with the highest return per minute invested, and also one of the most tedious: doing it manually through phpMyAdmin means risking a badly written DELETE.

EHERO Cleaner turns that task into a guided, measured and transparent process. More than 25 tools, each with its live counter and risk label, all built on the official WordPress APIs and acting only on data that is already in the trash, has already expired, or is structurally orphaned. Your published content is never touched. That is the difference between cleaning the WordPress database with judgment and trusting a magic button that explains nothing.

Why your database gets bloated (and why it costs you money)

WordPress stores much more than you see: every edit creates a full revision, every plugin writes metadata that it does not remove when uninstalled, every widget leaves cache transients, and every order generates rows in Action Scheduler that do not expire on their own.

• Revisions multiply the size of wp_posts and wp_postmeta without adding anything to the public site.
• Expired transients keep taking up space in wp_options even though they are no longer useful.
• Orphaned metadata slows down every JOIN WordPress makes to render a page.
• Bigger backups, slower migrations and a dashboard that gets less responsive every month.

More than 25 tools to clean the WordPress database

A complete catalog of cleaners that act only on unnecessary data. Each one is a card with a live counter, risk label and «Run now» button: you choose what to clean and see exactly what you gain.

• Expired transients, all transients, oEmbed cache and RSS/Atom feed cache.
• Post revisions (keeping the ones you specify), auto drafts and trash posts.
• Spam comments, trash comments, pingbacks and trackbacks.
• Orphaned metadata for posts, comments, terms and users; broken term relationships; duplicate metadata and forgotten edit locks.
• OPTIMIZE optimization of all tables to truly reclaim the freed space.
• «Run all safe ones» button: launches everything marked as Safe in one pass and leaves out the Moderate ones.

Specific cleanup for WooCommerce, Action Scheduler and HPOS

Stores are the ones that suffer the most from bloat and the ones that can gain the most. These tools only appear if WooCommerce is active and on overloaded stores they reclaim hundreds of megabytes at once.

• Action Scheduler: completed actions older than 30 days, failed actions, canceled actions and orphaned logs.
• Expired WooCommerce customer sessions and old download logs.
• Expired login session tokens stored in user metadata.
• Full compatibility with HPOS, WooCommerce high-performance order storage.

Scheduled cleaning: maintenance without having to remember it

The best cleaning is the one you do not have to remember. Set a routine once and your site stays light on its own, month after month.

• Choose the frequency: twice a day, daily or weekly.
• Free selection of which tools run in each pass.
• The date of the last scheduled cleaning is always visible in the panel.
• By default it cleans expired transients, trash, spam and auto drafts: the safe stuff, with no setup needed.

Metadata viewer grouped by source plugin

Have you ever wondered what each post or product really stores? The viewer shows it in read-only mode, with no risk of breaking anything, and organized by the plugin that wrote it.

• Groups keys by WordPress Core, WooCommerce, Yoast, Rank Math, Elementor, AIOSEO and many more.
• Works on posts, products, orders (including HPOS) and category and tag terms.
• Formats serialized values and JSON in a readable way, with collapsible sections.
• Summary of the total number of entries and sections at a glance.

Detector of metadata from uninstalled plugins

Here is the feature most cleaners do not even try. When you uninstall a plugin, it almost always leaves its meta_key prefixes behind in your database forever. The detector finds them and lets you remove them selectively.

• Groups meta_key prefixes by the likely source plugin, with an exact count.
• Scans postmeta, usermeta, termmeta and commentmeta.
• Deletes selected key groups, always with prior confirmation.
• Identifies sources such as Yoast, ACF, WPML, Divi, Beaver Builder, Avada and others.

Advanced deletion and bulk data purging

For resets, staging and migrations, powerful tools designed for people who know what they are doing, always under explicit confirmation.

• Delete posts or products by status or by taxonomy term.
• Purge entire groups: posts, comments, media, products, orders, coupons, categories, tags and product attributes.
• Marked as Moderate risk and separated from the rest so they are not clicked by mistake.

Activity log and real database size

Cleaning without measuring is useless: the panel shows before and after, and the history records every operation.

• Database size always visible, before and after each cleaning.
• Activity log with the history of each cleaning performed and its date.
• Live counters per tool, to justify maintenance to a client.

Safety first: why you can trust it

Touching the database is scary, and rightly so. That is why security is the plugin’s first principle, not an add-on.

• All operations use the official WordPress APIs, not improvised SQL queries.
• Only discarded data (trash, spam) or structurally orphaned data is deleted.
• Safe / Moderate risk labels and prior confirmation for anything destructive.
• All cleaning is 100% local: nothing is sent to any external server.

🎁 Free, and truly free

No stripped-down version, no usage limits, no credit card required. The more than 25 tools, scheduled cleaning, metadata viewer and uninstalled plugin detector are all included.

The easiest way to install it is from your own WordPress: Plugins → Add New and search for «EHERO Cleaner». That way updates arrive automatically. If you prefer the ZIP, you can get it right here when you add it to the cart.

Since you’re cleaning the house…

A clean database fixes the slowness caused by accumulated junk. These are the bottlenecks that usually come next, and which Cleaner does not solve because that is not its job.

Ideal for

It doesn’t matter what you publish or what you sell: if your WordPress has been running for years, you have accumulated junk. Where EHERO Cleaner shines most:

📋 System requirements

Compatibility tested with the current versions of WordPress and WooCommerce.

🛟 Technical support

Email support in Spanish* at soporte@consultoriaehero.com and a complete online manual (ES/EN). Updates arrive automatically if you installed it from WordPress.org: new cleanup tools, compatibility with new versions of WordPress and WooCommerce, and fixes, without you having to do anything.

⚖️ Comparison: why EHERO Cleaner?

What sets EHERO Cleaner apart from cleaning the WordPress database by hand with SQL and from classic cleaners.

Frequently asked questions

Is it safe to clean the WordPress database with this plugin?

Yes. EHERO Cleaner uses the official WordPress APIs and only acts on data that is already in the trash, has expired, or is structurally orphaned. Each tool has its risk label and live counter, and anything destructive asks for confirmation. Even so, the usual recommendation still applies: make a backup before a major cleanup.

Can I lose posts, products, or orders?

No. The tools only delete content that has already been discarded (trash, spam) or is technically unnecessary (orphaned metadata, auto drafts, expired transients). Your live posts, pages, products, and orders remain intact, and the metadata viewer works in read-only mode.

Do I need WooCommerce to use it?

No. It works on any WordPress installation, with or without a store. The WooCommerce-specific tools (sessions, download logs, Action Scheduler) only appear if the plugin is active, and include HPOS compatibility.

Is it really free? What’s the catch?

There is no catch: it is GPLv2, has no license check, and includes all features. We keep it because the people who install it and find it useful end up seeing us as a trustworthy place to buy a paid plugin. That’s the whole model.

Can I schedule automatic cleanups?

Yes. In Settings you enable scheduled cleanup, choose the frequency (twice a day, daily, or weekly), and select which tools run each time. The dashboard records the date of the last cleanup so you always know when it was done.

Does the plugin connect to external services?

All cleanup functionality is 100% local: no external calls are made to delete or optimize anything. The only optional connection is a newsletter subscription banner that checks coupons on consultoriaehero.com, and it can be permanently disabled with one click.

Your database has been accumulating junk from plugins you barely even remember for years. Clean it in one click and keep it: it’s free.

EHERO Cleaner: clean the WordPress database safely and for free.

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*EHERO Cleaner is distributed free of charge under the GPLv2 license and without warranty. Support for the free version is the WordPress.org forum.