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Author: Ruhani Rabin

WP-Optimize is a wordpress 2.7++ database cleanup and optimization tool. It doesn't require PhpMyAdmin to optimize your database tables. It allows you to remove post revisions, comments in the spam queue, un-approved comments within few clicks.

Additionally you can rename any username to another username too.

Features:

• Remove the wordpress post revisions including post meta data garbage
• Remove all the comments in the spam queue
• Remove all the un-approved comments
• Rename one username to another username, it's designed to rename default "Admin" user to something else
• Apply mysql optimize commands on your database tables without phpMyAdmin.
• Display Database table statistics. Shows how much space can be optimzied and how much space has been cleared.

How this could help you?

• Everytime you save a new post or pages, wordpress creates a revision of that post or page. If you edit a post 6 times you might have 5 copy of that post as revisions. Imagine if your post or pages are long and big. It is a huge number of bytes thats on your MySQL overhead. Now WP-Optimize allows you to optimize and shrink your posts table by removing not necessary post revisions from the database. As example, if you have a post which is approximately 100KB data and you have 5 revisions of that post, the total space wasted is about 500KB. And if you have 100 posts similar to it, you have 50MB database space wasted.
• Similar to the scenario described above, there might be thousands of spams and un-approved comments in your comments table, WP-Optimize can clean and remove those in a single click
• WP-Optimize reports which database tables have overhead and wasted spaces also it allows you to shrink and get rid of those wasted spaces
• Wordpress doesn't allow you to rename existing username which could be a security issue because your default wordpress admin username is "admin", if you read my Wordpress Security guide article, you will know the risks involved. WP-Optimize can rename any existing username to other name