LWS Cleaner helps you
clean your WordPress website. This gives it a second youth, fast and easily!
Clean your posts, comments, terms, users or even unused medias with a single click. Manage your files and delete non native files to ensure utmost security on your website.
Articles
The LWS Cleaner plugin allows you to clean up various content related to your articles in a few clicks:
- Delete article revisions
- Delete automatic drafts
- Delete articles in the recycle garbage can
- Delete orphan metadata from articles
- Delete duplicate metadata from articles
- Delete the oEmbed cache of article metadata
Comments
Clean up the comments area just as easily:
- Delete unapproved comments
- Delete unwanted comments
- Delete comments in the recycle garbage can
- Remove orphaned metadata from comments
- Remove duplicate metadata from comments
- Disable comments on the site
Terms
You can also clean up terms:
- Remove unused terms
- Remove orphaned metadata from terms
- Remove duplicate terms
- Remove orphaned relationships from terms
Users
- Delete duplicate user metadata
- Delete orphaned user metadata
Parameters
- Delete transients (cached data types in WordPress)
- Delete crons (crons schedule events automatically)
Plugins / themes
- Delete unused plugins
- Delete unused themes
Media
In this tab you will find a list of media that appear to be unused.
- Delete media in a grouped way
- Add media to the ignore list in a grouped way (to avoid deleting them by mistake)
- Delete / ignore media on a case by case basis
- Remove from the ignore list
Files
In this last tab, detect and delete non-WordPress native files found in your web files. Be sure to check if the folder/file in question is not useful to you. This system can help you free up space on your server and possibly find a suspicious file.
- Delete a non-native WordPress folder
- Delete a non-native file from WordPress
This plugin is pre-installed when ordering one of these LWS webhosts:
WordPress hosting, Classic shared
web hosting and
cPanel hosting
There are 3 different ways to install LWS Cleaner (as with any other
wordpress.org plugin).
Using the WordPress dashboard
- In WordPress, in the Extensions menu, click on "Add"
- Search for the 'LWS Cleaner' plugin
- Click 'Install Now'
- Activate the plugin
Uploading in WordPress Dashboard
- Download the latest version of this plugin
- In WordPress, in the Extensions menu, click on "Add"
- Click on the top button "Upload an extension"
- Select the zip file from your computer (zip file from step 1.)
- Click 'Install Now'
- Activate the plugin
Using FTP
- Download the latest version of this plugin
- Unzip the zip file. This extracts the files from the compressed folder on your computer
- Upload the LWS Cleaner folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory in your web space
- Activate the plugin in WordPress