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WP-Sweep · Version history

WP-Sweep changelog and version history

Latest version
2.0.1
Aug 24, 2026 (2 months ago)
Releases
20
since 2015
In the last year
4
about one every 30 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 8.2 or later

Releases each year

  • 20152 releases
  • 20162 releases
  • 20174 releases
  • 20181 release
  • 20191 release
  • 20202 releases
  • 20233 releases
  • 20251 release
  • 20264 releases

20264 releases

  1. WP-Sweep 2.0.1Latest

    • NEW: A Sweep link on the plugin’s row of the Plugins screen, opening Tools -> Sweep.
    • FIXED: The Sweep screen timed out on large databases. 2.0.0 computed every count before printing a byte — and asked for each table’s total row count once per row instead of once, so SELECT COUNT(*) ran against the postmeta table four times per load. The screen now renders at once and fetches the co…
    • FIXED: Counting the duplicated meta sweeps fetched every duplicate row’s ids into PHP through GROUP_CONCAT, just to add them up. On a postmeta table with millions of duplicates that alone could exhaust the request. The count now reads per-key totals only; the ids are read where they are needed, by…

  2. WP-Sweep 2.0.0

    • FIXED: Unused Terms read “unused” off the count column, and core’s own counter counts published posts — so a term used only by drafts, pending posts, private posts or posts in the trash showed a count of zero and was deleted, taking its relationships with it. Those posts came back untagged with not…
    • FIXED: Sweeping the terms of a taxonomy nothing registers any more finished with DELETE FROM wp_terms WHERE term_id NOT IN ( SELECT term_id FROM wp_term_taxonomy ), which is every stray row in the table rather than the ones the sweep had just orphaned. Rows the screen had neither counted nor listed…
    • FIXED: Orphaned Term Relationships decided a row was an orphan by looking for its object_id in wp_posts — which only asks the right question when the taxonomy belongs to posts. For a taxonomy registered against users or comments, object_id is a user or comment ID, so every relationship whose ID hap…
    • FIXED: The oEmbed sweep matched %_oembed_%, and in a LIKE pattern an underscore matches any single character — so it meant “any meta key containing oembed with a character either side”, and it was a contains match rather than a prefix one. Keys belonging to other plugins were hard-deleted along wit…
    • FIXED: The oEmbed sweep was the one meta sweep that never consulted the protected-keys list, so a key a site had explicitly added to wp_sweep_postmeta_whitelist was deleted anyway — the list was even read for it and then ignored
    • FIXED: Optimising the database ran SHOW TABLES with no prefix, which is every table in the schema. On a database shared between installs — an ordinary hosting arrangement — the details view listed every co-tenant’s tables, and the sweep issued OPTIMIZE TABLE against installs this administrator does…
    • BREAKING: Requires WordPress 6.8 and PHP 8.2.
    • BREAKING: The screen stays under Tools but its address changed, from tools.php?page=wp-sweep/admin.php to tools.php?page=wp-sweep. The old form put the installation directory name into the URL.
    • BREAKING: The classes are renamed WPSweep -> WP_Sweep, WPSweep_Api -> WP_Sweep_API and WPSweep_Command -> WP_Sweep_Command. Every filter and action keeps its name.
    • BREAKING: WP_Sweep::$limit_details is gone. Read it with limit_details() and change it with the wp_sweep_limit_details filter.
    • BREAKING: The six wp_sweep_admin_*_sweep actions fire below the single sweep table, in the order they always had, rather than below six separate ones.
    • BREAKING: Sweep All is gone. Tick the header checkbox and apply the Sweep bulk action instead, which does the same thing and lets you leave rows out.
    • NEW: Bulk sweeping. Tick the sweeps you want and run them in one go instead of one click at a time.
    • NEW: The sweeps are grouped on screen. The unfiltered view puts each under a heading with an icon — Post, Comment, User, Term, Option, Database — while staying one table, so a single bulk sweep still runs everything you tick. Sorting a column drops the headings rather than leaving them describing r…
    • NEW: Group filters and sortable columns, from a real WP_List_Table.
    • NEW: The whole screen works with JavaScript turned off. The row actions are ordinary nonced links and the bulk action is an ordinary form post.
    • NEW: The meta key whitelists protect the duplicated meta sweeps as well as the orphaned ones, which the readme always claimed and the code never did.
    • NEW: wp_sweep_capability and wp_sweep_limit_details filters. WP-Sweep has no settings screen: wp_sweep_limit_details is how the Details cap is changed.
    • NEW: Every sweep carries a description of what it removes, shown under its name, and counts worth acting on are emphasised.
    • NEW: An uninstall.php that cleans up across a whole network rather than the first hundred sites. WP-Sweep itself stores nothing: no option rows, no tables, no capabilities and no scheduled events.
    • NEW: Restructured into includes/, following the Plugin Handbook.
    • NEW: PHPUnit and vitest suites, and GitHub Actions CI across six WordPress and PHP combinations, single site and multisite.
    • CHANGED: Meta key exclusions are matched in PHP rather than with SQL LIKE, so an underscore in a protected key is an underscore rather than a wildcard.
    • CHANGED: Every database call goes through one method, and every query is prepared.
    • FIXED: A stored XSS on the admin screen. The Details list was built by string concatenation and injected as HTML, so a comment author name containing markup ran as script in the administrator’s browser.
    • FIXED: The plugin no longer builds paths from its own directory name, so the admin script loads when it is installed under a directory other than wp-sweep.
    • FIXED: Filtering wp_sweep_excluded_termids to an empty array produced invalid SQL, leaving the Unused Terms count blank.
    • FIXED: A term was excluded from the Unused Terms sweep whenever its ID matched a default_<taxonomy> option, even if that option pointed at a term that no longer exists. WordPress ships default_link_category set to 2, so on most sites whatever term held ID 2 quietly refused to sweep.
    • FIXED: Sweeping without JavaScript deleted data and displayed nothing; the result is now shown.
    • FIXED: The multisite uninstall loop stopped at 100 sites, hydrated whole site objects to read one column, and left the switch stack unwound by one.

  3. WP-Sweep 1.2.0

  4. WP-Sweep 1.1.9

20251 release

  1. WP-Sweep 1.1.8

20233 releases

  1. WP-Sweep 1.1.7

  2. WP-Sweep 1.1.6

  3. WP-Sweep 1.1.5

20202 releases

  1. WP-Sweep 1.1.3

  2. WP-Sweep 1.1.2

20191 release

  1. WP-Sweep 1.1.1

20181 release

  1. WP-Sweep 1.1.0

20174 releases

  1. WP-Sweep 1.0.12

  2. WP-Sweep 1.0.11

  3. WP-Sweep 1.0.10

  4. WP-Sweep 1.0.9

20162 releases

  1. WP-Sweep 1.0.7

  2. WP-Sweep 1.0.8

20152 releases

  1. WP-Sweep 1.0.6

  2. WP-Sweep 1.0.5

Questions about WP-Sweep’s releases

What is the latest version of WP-Sweep?

2.0.1, released on Aug 24, 2026 (2 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 8.2 or later.

How often is WP-Sweep updated?

4 releases in the last year, about one every 30 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from November 2015.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in WP-Sweep’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.