Optimize your WordPress database with WP-Optimize plugin
Your blog is as healthy as your sever is. If your website is unavailable traffic goes down and your business is in danger. That’s why is very important to take care of your blog, and if you’ve choose WordPress there are a lot of plugins out there to help you do just that. I’m going to present you in this pose the WP-Optimize, a plugin that takes care of the WordPress database, maintaining it in perfect shape. If doesn’t back up the WordPress database but this can be easily achieved with this great plugin.
What WP-Optimize does
There are a few action you can perform with WP-Optimize and those actions are:
- remove post revisions: in the latest WordPress versions almost all changes you make to posts are saved so you can later revert to any of those revisions if something happens
- clean marked Spam comments: it’s pretty self explanatory and cleans a serious portion of the database if selected
- clean unapproved comments: what’s the point of keeping them, right?
- optimize database tables: this is one of the most important functions as greatly reduces your database tables size using MySQL commands, so it’s pretty safe
WP-Optimize options page
How do you install and use WP-Optimize
Installation is easy. Download the plugin from here. Copy it to your Plugins directory on server, activate from admin and that’s it.
To use it go to the Dashboard tab in admin on the left sidebar and select WP-Optimize. Here you select one or more of the four options and hit go. Wait a few seconds and you’ll see a report showing how much space you’ve freed.
WP-Optimize provisionary report
Important: always backup your database before optimizing in. If things go wrong you have to be covered.
