Best transient plugins for WordPress
The most popular transient plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Transients Manager leads with 20K+ active installs, ahead of WPS Bidouille (9K+) and Delete Expired Transients (4K+). All 9 plugins tagged “transient” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 7 transient plugins
- 1.
Transients ManagerThe most installed transient plugin, with 20K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 38 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 2.
WPS Bidouille9K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 54 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 3.
Delete Expired Transients4K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 13 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.
Transient Cleaner1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 23 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 5.
Clear Transient From Dashboard100+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.5.24.
- 6.
Purgify10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 7.
Clean Expired Transients10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.1.28.
All 9 plugins tagged “transient”
Transients Manager
Down in the last 7 days:2#1,216by Syed Balkhi2 years ago
Provides a familiar interface to view, search, edit, and delete Transients.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 5.0(38)
- Downloads
- 368/day
WPS Bidouille
Down in the last 7 days:2#2,185by NicolasKulka2 months ago
WPS Bidouille provides information about your WordPress and contains optimization tools.
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 4.9(54)
- Downloads
- 42/day
Delete Expired Transients
Down in the last 7 days:4#3,233by webaware2 months ago
Delete old, expired transients from WordPress wp_options table
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 5.0(13)
- Downloads
- 32/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
Clear Transient From Dashboard
Down in the last 7 days:142#15,677by minkapi6 years ago
Logging in as admin, you can clear all transients from the dashboard.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Purgify
#29,883by Deepak Rajpal22 days ago
Clear all caches in one click, clear transients, and purge individual database rows by key, from the admin toolbar or Tools → Purgify.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Clean Expired Transients
#39,804by Milan Dinić7 years ago
Safest and simplest transients garbage collector.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day