Best database plugins for WordPress
The most popular database plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Search Regex leads with 100K+ active installs, ahead of WP-Sweep (100K+) and Advanced Database Cleaner (100K+). All 362 plugins tagged “database” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 database plugins
- 1.
Search RegexThe most installed database plugin, with 100K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 101 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 2.WP-Sweep
100K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 138 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 3.
Advanced Database Cleaner100K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 1,962 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.
Go Live Update Urls90K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 59 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 5.
BackUpWordPress80K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 1,373 reviews, updated 3 days ago.
- 6.Database Backup for WordPress
60K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 66 reviews, updated 6 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 7.
Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions60K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 181 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
- 8.WP-DBManager
50K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 95 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 9.
WP phpMyAdmin40K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 58 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 10.
Search & Replace Everything by WPCode20K+ active installs. Rated 3.9 from 7 reviews, updated 3 months ago.
All 362 plugins tagged “database”

Search Regex
Down in the last 7 days:1#291by John Godley1 month ago
Search Regex adds a powerful set of search and replace functions to WordPress posts, pages, custom post types, and other data.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.7(101)
- Downloads
- 1.2K/day
WP-Sweep
Down in the last 7 days:3#295by Lester Chan2 months ago
WP-Sweep allows you to clean up unused, orphaned and duplicated data in your WordPress. It also optimizes your database tables.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.7(138)
- Downloads
- 758/day

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

Go Live Update Urls
Up in the last 7 days:1#475by Mat Lipe12 days ago
Change the domain on your site with one click.
- Installs
- 90K+
- Rating
- 4.5(59)
- Downloads
- 878/day

BackUpWordPress
#514by Tom Willmot3 days ago
Simple automated backups of your WordPress-powered website.
- Installs
- 80K+
- Rating
- 4.7(1.4K)
- Downloads
- 143/day
Database Backup for WordPress
#624by WP Engine6 months ago
Database Backup for WordPress is your one-stop database backup solution for WordPress.
- Installs
- 60K+
- Rating
- 4.5(66)
- Downloads
- 197/day

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions
Up in the last 7 days:1#689by NerdPress5 months ago
One-click database optimization with precise revision cleanup and flexible scheduling. Speeding up sites since 2011!
- Installs
- 60K+
- Rating
- 4.7(181)
- Downloads
- 146/day
WP-DBManager
Up in the last 7 days:1#701by Lester Chan3 months ago
Manages your WordPress database.
- Installs
- 50K+
- Rating
- 4.4(95)
- Downloads
- 260/day

WP phpMyAdmin
Down in the last 7 days:3#833by Puvox Software17 days ago
[ ✅ 𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐔𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐒 𝐵𝓎 𝒫𝓊𝓋𝑜𝓍 ] phpMyAdmin - Database Browser & Manager (for MySQL & MariaDB)
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rating
- 4.6(58)
- Downloads
- 666/day

Search & Replace Everything by WPCode
Up in the last 7 days:3#1,086by WPCode3 months ago
Search and Replace everything in WordPress. Easily find and replace media, images, text, links and more with a single click using a simple user interf …
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 3.9(7)
- Downloads
- 201/day

Docket Cache
Up in the last 7 days:5#1,190by Nawawi Jamili8 days ago
Speed up your WordPress site with a persistent object cache, powered by OPcache. An efficient alternative to Redis and Memcached.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.9(50)
- Downloads
- 373/day

Database Manager
Down in the last 7 days:7#1,285by Pexle Chris7 months ago
Manage the database from your WordPress Dashboard using Adminer.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 5.0(28)
- Downloads
- 406/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

WPS Cleaner
#1,464by NicolasKulka2 months ago
WPS Cleaner cleans your WordPress site as well as your database.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.3(99)
- Downloads
- 75/day

Plugins Garbage Collector (Database Cleanup)
#1,856by Vladimir Garagulya2 months ago
Find and delete unused database tables belong to deactivated or deleted plugins directly from WP dashboard.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.4(92)
- Downloads
- 82/day

Database Cleaner
#2,115by Jordy Meow9 days ago
Clean up and optimize your WordPress database: revisions, transients, autoload, orphaned data. Built for large databases, safe and fast.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(150)
- Downloads
- 597/day

Brozzme DB Prefix & Tools Addons
Down in the last 7 days:6#2,173by Benoti9 months ago
Easily change your WordPress DB prefix, save time, increase security.
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 4.7(58)
- Downloads
- 40/day
AAA Autoload Optimizer
Up in the last 7 days:5#2,222by Progress Planner6 days ago
Find and fix bloated autoloaded options slowing down your WordPress database
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 4.6(25)
- Downloads
- 322/day

Business Essentials for Contact Form 7
Up in the last 7 days:3#2,533by Scott Paterson1 month ago
Business Essentials for Contact Form 7
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 3.3(10)
- Downloads
- 62/day

Database for Contact Form 7
Up in the last 7 days:8#2,614by Ninja Team20 days ago
Automatically save all data submitted via Contact Form 7 to your database
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 4.2(14)
- Downloads
- 88/day

Participants Database
#2,659by Roland Barker3 months ago
Build and maintain a fully customizable database of participants, members or anything with signup forms, admin backend, custom lists, and CSV support.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 4.9(320)
- Downloads
- 30/day
SQLite Database Integration
Down in the last 7 days:36#3,013by WordPress.org5 days ago
Run WordPress on SQLite.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.6(12)
- Downloads
- 7.6K/day

SQL Buddy
Down in the last 7 days:11#3,212by WP Engine1 year ago
Your one-stop solution for easy WordPress database management
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 5.0(14)
- Downloads
- 45/day

CM Search And Replace
Down in the last 7 days:15#4,555by CreativeMindsSolutions26 days ago
Search and replace words, phrases, and HTML within your website posts and pages.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.2(15)
- Downloads
- 50/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
InstaMigrate
Up in the last 7 days:286#5,000by InstaWP10 days ago
Secure REST API endpoints for WordPress site migration — database export/import, file transfer, and search-replace.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 418/day
WP Synchro
Down in the last 7 days:37#5,086by WP Synchro7 days ago
WordPress migration plugin to easily migrate, clone, backup, and synchronize your WordPress site, including database, media, plugins, themes, and file …
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(30)
- Downloads
- 52/day

Change Table Prefix
Down in the last 7 days:5#5,310by Manish Kumar Agarwal8 months ago
Change the database table prefix first defined in your wp-config.php file.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.8(54)
- Downloads
- 23/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

Index WP Users For Speed
Down in the last 7 days:25#5,446by OllieJones2 months ago
Do you have thousands of users on your WordPress site? Look them up fast. Find authors more easily. Speed up your laggy dashboard.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 47/day

Views for WPForms
Down in the last 7 days:1#5,532by Aman3 days ago
Display and Edit WPForms Entries Directly on Your Website with No Coding Knowledge Needed.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(24)
- Downloads
- 37/day

CF7 Views
Down in the last 7 days:20#5,825by Aman1 month ago
Easily display Contact Form 7 Entries/Submissions on your site frontend.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.6(17)
- Downloads
- 33/day
Templ Optimizer
Down in the last 7 days:9#5,996by Templ1 month ago
Optimize your site and improve its performance with a few clicks.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 19/day
Database Collation Fix
Down in the last 7 days:7#6,085by Dave Jesch4 months ago
Convert tables using utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci or utf8_unicode_520_ci collation to a more portable Collation Algorithm.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(21)
- Downloads
- 28/day
Database Access with Adminer
Down in the last 7 days:12#6,235by Roy Orbitson9 months ago
Provides a secure interface to your WordPress database using Adminer, the popular database administration tool.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Easy Actions Scheduler Cleaner
Down in the last 7 days:14#6,987by Fernando Tellado2 months ago
Clean up your Actions Scheduler database with manual or scheduled cleanup. Remove old actions and logs automatically.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 5.0(9)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Slider Revolution Search Replace
Down in the last 7 days:10#7,303by Dhaval Kasavala3 years ago
Replace url of old domain to new domain for revolution slider only.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Record of Consent Extension for Complianz
Down in the last 7 days:17#8,001by davidevalerio13 days ago
Stores custom consent records triggered by Complianz events with compliance tracking and auditing capabilities.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 33/day

ABCode Database Exporter
#8,445by Ash Brentnall | ABCode2 months ago
One-click WordPress database export and backup. Download full or per-table .sql, .sql.gz, or .csv files. No phpMyAdmin, SSH, or cPanel needed.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Run SQL Query
Down in the last 7 days:6#8,748by Fabricio Carella10 years ago
Run SQL Query is a simple plugin to quickly execute any type of SQL query into the WordPress's DB and export the results in a CSV format file.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- 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 Lorem ipsum
Down in the last 7 days:23#9,060by Matteo Manna5 years ago
WP Lorem ipsum automatically create new fake posts to fill the database and get a very good impression for your website.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 3.4(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day

EZ SQL Reports Shortcode Widget and DB Backup
Down in the last 7 days:10#9,064by Eli1 year ago
Create and save SQL Reports in your WP Admin and place them on pages and posts with a shortcode. Keep your database safe with automatic backups.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.7(15)
- Downloads
- 11/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

Simple Table Manager
Up in the last 7 days:22#9,892by ryo0inoue1 month ago
Enables viewing and editing table records and exporting them to CSV files through a minimal database interface from your dashboard.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.8(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Data Source for Contact Form 7
Up in the last 7 days:90#10,223by codepeople25 days ago
The Data Source for Contact Form 7 plugin populates fields with data from external sources like databases, CSVs, URL parameters, ACF, and others.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Fast Woo Order Lookup
Down in the last 7 days:8#10,291by OllieJones8 months ago
Searches for orders faster on WooCommerce stores with many orders.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 12/day

f(x) Email Log
Down in the last 7 days:43#10,789by David Chandra Purnama9 years ago
Simple plugin to log all email sent via WordPress.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Cache Cleaner X-Ray
Up in the last 7 days:66#11,110by Lumiverse Dynamic28 days ago
Find what is slowing WordPress down. See what is creating pressure. Clean what is safe.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Options View
Down in the last 7 days:91#11,280by Katsushi Kawamori2 months ago
Edit the contents of the options & usermeta table.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day