Best clean plugins for WordPress
The most popular clean plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Advanced Database Cleaner leads with 100K+ active installs, ahead of Media Cleaner (90K+) and Advanced WordPress Reset (10K+). All 71 plugins tagged “clean” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 clean plugins
- 1.
Advanced Database CleanerThe most installed clean plugin, with 100K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 1,962 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.
Media Cleaner90K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 779 reviews, updated 5 days ago.
- 3.
Advanced WordPress Reset10K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 1,233 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.
Unbloater5K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 17 reviews, updated 4 months ago.
- 5.wp_head() cleaner
2K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 6 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 6.Easy WP Cleaner
2K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 41 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 7.Transient Cleaner
1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 23 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 8.
Disable Login Language Switcher1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.0.18.
- 9.
Remove WordPress Overhead1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 10.
Material Admin Theme1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 12 reviews, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
All 71 plugins tagged “clean”

Advanced Database Cleaner
#340by Younes JFR.2 months ago
Clean database by deleting orphaned data such as 'revisions', 'expired transients', optimize database and more...
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.9(2K)
- Downloads
- 675/day

Media Cleaner
#489by Jordy Meow5 days ago
Find and delete unused images and media files, fix broken entries, with a trash to undo anything. A lighter, faster WordPress! 💕
- Installs
- 90K+
- Rating
- 4.6(779)
- Downloads
- 4.2K/day

Advanced WordPress Reset
Up in the last 7 days:2#1,446by Younes JFR.2 months ago
The ultimate solution for resetting your WordPress database or specific components to their default settings using the advanced reset features.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.9(1.2K)
- Downloads
- 68/day

Unbloater
Down in the last 7 days:1#3,067by christophrado4 months ago
Remove unnecessary code, nags and bloat from WordPress core and certain plugins.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 5.0(17)
- Downloads
- 29/day
wp_head() cleaner
Down in the last 7 days:8#4,447by jwilsson2 months ago
Remove unused tags from wp_head() output.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 23/day
Easy WP Cleaner
Down in the last 7 days:20#4,891by Nikunj Soni1 year ago
Easy WP Cleaner is user friendly plugin to clean unnecessary data from WordPress database and also allows you to optimize your WordPress database.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(41)
- Downloads
- 15/day
Transient Cleaner
Up in the last 7 days:10#5,433by David Artiss2 months ago
Clean expired transients from your options table. The original and best!
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(23)
- Downloads
- 33/day

Disable Login Language Switcher
Down in the last 7 days:5#5,467by Dominik Schilling4 years ago
Removes the language dropdown from the login screen.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Remove WordPress Overhead
Down in the last 7 days:13#5,477by omnisite2 years ago
Remove overhead from the HTML, speed up your website and disable widgets you don't use
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Material Admin Theme
Down in the last 7 days:58#5,918by chmln10 years ago
Material blue theme for wordpress admin. Flat design, improved contrast. Have your backend look like 2015.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(12)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Image Cleanup
Down in the last 7 days:9#6,167by opicron9 years ago
Image Cleanup will index unreferenced images. These can be leftovers from cropping and scaling images. Stop them cluttering your content folder!
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.5(63)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Auto Prune Posts
Down in the last 7 days:16#6,413by ramon fincken1 year ago
Auto deletes expires (prunes) posts after a certain amount of time. On a per category basis (single category, or all at once.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.2(10)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Mass Delete Unused Tags
Down in the last 7 days:7#7,776by ramon fincken3 years ago
Deletes all unused tags, handy tool if you want to start over with a quick clean blog.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day
SweepPress
Down in the last 7 days:32#8,933by Milan Petrovic16 days ago
Remove unused, orphaned, duplicated data in your WordPress website using 55+ sweepers, manage and clean Options table, optimize database.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 38/day

WP Cron Cleaner
Down in the last 7 days:50#9,350by Younes JFR.2 months ago
View all your cron scheduled tasks, then clean what you want.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 3.4(12)
- Downloads
- 7/day
WP-Cleanup
#9,454by JortK16 years ago
This Wordpress plugin will cleanup your Wordpress database by remove all unused data from your database.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.0(3)
- Downloads
- 5/day

Clean unused shortcodes
Up in the last 7 days:25#10,573by Amr Abdelkarem24 days ago
Scan your site for orphaned shortcodes and remove them safely from post content and excerpts.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.4(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day

CodingBunny Database Cleaner
Up in the last 7 days:200#11,616by CodingBunny11 days ago
Keep your WordPress database fast and clean by removing orphaned data left behind by plugins, themes, and WordPress core.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 34/day
Ultimate media cleaner
Down in the last 7 days:75#11,828by nicearma4 years ago
Find used medias from you from the database and/or your upload folder and give the way to delete them the ones "unused"
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 2.3(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Clean Unused Medias
Up in the last 7 days:7#14,108by xuxu.fr5 years ago
Clean Unused Medias, another simple way to delete the medias you don't need anymore.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.8(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Clean WP Dashboard
Down in the last 7 days:80#15,480by sant0sk117 years ago
Easily remove any/all of the default WordPress dashboard widgets
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Tamed Admin Theme
Down in the last 7 days:79#15,661by lucawater10 years ago
A basic, clean and minimalistic Wordpress admin theme.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Space Remover
Down in the last 7 days:118#16,559by mgwe10 years ago
Space Remover removes any leading or trailing spaces from your post and page content. Securing a clean and consistent website layout.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP AdminTools
Down in the last 7 days:48#16,645by Stefan Seibel11 years ago
Control additional Wordpress, SEO and Database features with this swiss army knife for WordPress.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Simplify Admin Menus
Up in the last 7 days:311#17,447by Adam Alexandersson2 months ago
Simplify your WordPress admin interface by customizing menu items and admin bar elements per user role or individual user.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Mass Delete Taxonomies
Down in the last 7 days:225#20,303by ramon fincken3 years ago
Deletes all tags (or other taxonomies), handy tool if you want to start over with a quick clean blog.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 4.9(9)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Upload Directory Cleaner
#20,763by Elias Lackner7 years ago
The UDC plugin allows you to scan and delete all unregistered files from your Wordpress upload directory.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Head Cleanup
Up in the last 7 days:114#21,200by Matt McInvale15 years ago
Remove extraneous header tags from your site's head area. Simple user interface that allows you to select what tags to remove.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Easy Dashboard
Up in the last 7 days:150#21,258by Marco Milesi1 month ago
Replace the default WordPress dashboard with a cleaner welcome page focused on shortcuts, branding, and faster access to content.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 4.4(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Auto Title Case
Up in the last 7 days:101#21,607by Web Guy5 months ago
Automatically converts post and image titles to title case.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day

OO Cleaner for CFDB7
Up in the last 7 days:351#21,876by OO Solutions2 months ago
Automatically delete old CFDB7 entries after a configurable number of days.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Upload Janitor
Down in the last 7 days:132#22,522by michaeltyson17 years ago
Clean up unused images and other files from your uploads folder.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Content Cleaner
Up in the last 7 days:152#23,279by colin34409 years ago
Automatically removes non-printable characters, including the ETX character, from content, title, and Advanced Custom fields.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Head Trimmer
Up in the last 7 days:299#25,709by John Dalesandro4 months ago
Selectively remove WordPress version information, feeds, shortlinks, emoji support, scripts, styles, and other automatically generated extras from the …
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

WPtimize
Down in the last 7 days:78#25,774by Yossi Aharon9 years ago
This plugin will cleanup and optimize your WordPress.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Strings Sanitizer
#26,521by Prospek Creation14 years ago
Aggressively sanitizes titles for clean, SEO friendly post slugs, and media filenames during upload.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
KT-CleanPress
Down in the last 7 days:258#26,710by mohamad wael14 years ago
Clean And Optimize WordPress .
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Clean
Down in the last 7 days:515#26,793by Artem Sannikov3 years ago
Плагин WP-Clean предоставляет большое количество функций для оптимизации, безопасности и удаления лишних файлов (кода) в WordPress.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP DB Cleaner
Down in the last 7 days:65#28,161by Utkarsh10 years ago
A wordpress cleaner plugin to help find and remove orphan, duplicate and missing data.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Unwanted Cleaner
Up in the last 7 days:526#28,732by Presskopp5 months ago
Unwanted plugins and themes are automatically removed during WordPress core updates, or you can delete them manually at any time in your dashboard.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
DX Remove Unused Custom Fields
#29,451by Mario Peshev12 years ago
Delete the Custom Fields from your postmeta table where assigned posts no longer exist.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.2(12)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Assetbroom
Down in the last 7 days:160#29,548by KAP ASIAs2 days ago
Detect unused images, duplicate media files, and safely clean your WordPress media library without breaking your website.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 7/day

Clean My WP
Up in the last 7 days:1,408#30,594by Ludwig You1 year ago
Clean My WP is a WordPress plugin that cleans up unnecessary data from your WordPress installation.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

SmartPro Database Optimiser & Cleaner
Down in the last 7 days:332#30,752by Kirtikumar Solanki5 months ago
Smart, lightweight tool to clean, optimize, and back up your WordPress database for better speed and performance.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Bulk Orders Remover for WooCommerce
#33,768by From Poland With Dev7 years ago
Bulk Orders Remover for WooCommerce
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Dashboard & Menu Cleaner (Quick Menu Finder)
Up in the last 7 days:5,595#36,111by fedmich15 years ago
This plugin will help you hide the default WordPress dashboard widgets like Incoming Links, etc.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
TIElogremover
#36,489by TIEro13 years ago
An extremely simple plugin which removes accumulated error log files from your web space.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Remove HTML From Content
Up in the last 7 days:1,160#37,680by Adam Ainsworth5 years ago
Simple plugin that strips all but the most common HTML tags from the content of WordPress pages and posts.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Cleaner WordPress Editor
Up in the last 7 days:740#39,535by fr33think3r14 years ago
This plugin makes wordpress posting/editing a less strainful experience. It weeds out all the junk in the post editor window so that its easier to con …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Uninstaller by Azed
Up in the last 7 days:7,036#40,532by azeddev10 years ago
This plugin allow you to delete your wordpress installation safely.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day