This plugin scans your WordPress database and shows the tables which not belong to the core WordPress installation.
Some WordPress plugins create and use its own database tables. Those tables (small and large) are left in your database after plugin deactivation and deletion often. If your blog is more than 1 day old you have some plugins garbage in your WordPress database probably. With the help of this plugin you can check your database and discover if it is clean or not. Plugin shows not WordPress tables list with quant of its records, size they occupy in Kb. Plugin name and plugin state are shown too if those data are available.
Changes made to the core WordPress database tables (columns added) could be discovered too.

Version 0.9.7 is available. Click the Download button below if you wish to try it.

Attention! Starting from version 0.9.2 plugin works with WordPress 3.0 and higher only. For earlier WordPress versions use plugin version 0.9.1 from here.

Quick Links

• Red color rows with high probability show old deleted plugins forgotten tables, so-called plugins garbage, which can be deleted from your WordPress database with the help of Delete Tables button or some of your favorite database tools, e.g. phpMyAdmin.
• Blue color rows show tables which belong to deactivated plugins. Those tables are probably candidates for deletion after you decide to delete theirs parent plugins.
• Green color rows show tables which belong to active plugins. Those tables are now in use. You do not need to touch them.

How Plugins Garbage Collector works? It selects all table names from your WordPress database, excludes core WordPress installation tables, then scans your plugins directory .php files text for table names and shows you the result as written above.

Delete Tables button appears if you have red color rows in the scan results table only. You need to turn on checkbox near the table name if you decided to drop it before click the Delete Tables button.
Attention! Delete table operation can not be rolled back. Please double think what are you doing before use Delete Tables button.
Plugins Garbage Collector is the decision support tool only and its conclusion about table usage can be wrong in some (I hope rare) cases. For example, if plugin developer uses some sophisticated scheme to assign names for his tables, not puts simple text into source code e.g. ‘my_plugin_table_name’, but calculates it with some algorithm e.g. ‘my’.'_’.'plugin’.'_’.'table’, etc… Final decision is for you – blog owner.

Do you have a suggestion what useful feature we can add to this plugin? Please, left your comments.

Translations

• Chinese Simple: Owen
• Czech: Jindřich “Masterbill” Rubeš
• French: Simon
• Dutch: Arthur
• German: Christian
• Japanese: Yoichi
• Indonesian: Masino Sinaga
• Italian: Alessandro Mariani
• Latin: Alessandro Mariani
• Russian: Vladimir Garagulya
• Spanish: Melvis E. Leon Lopez

Dear plugin User,
if you wish to help me with this plugin translation I very appreciate it. Please contact me via Contact form and I will answer you by email. Do not forget include your site link in order I can show it with greetings for the translation help at shinephp.com, plugin settings page and in this readme.txt file. If you have better translation for some phrases send it to me. You are welcome!

Special Thanks to

• alx359 – for contribution to the source code which fixed AJAX empty response for WordPress multi-site with subdomains and other stuff.

You are welcome! Help me in the bug hunting, share with me new ideas about plugin further development, contribute to the source code and link to your site will appear here.

ChangeLog

• 0.9.7 = 28.07.2011
  - AJAX empty response for WordPress multi-site with subdomains is fixed – thanks to alx359.
  - AJAX error processing is enhanced slightly.
  - Minor enhancements to plugin page CSS are made.
• 0.9.5 = 16.01.2011
  - Chinese Simple translation is added.
  - Minor change to pgc-ajax.js error processing is made.
• 0.9.4 = 28.12.2010
  - Italian translation is updated.
  - Latin translation is added.
• 0.9.3 = 14.10.2010
  - Bug fix: database table name had been processed in the lowercase format and table could not be deleted if have uppercase letters in its name. It is fixed now. If database table has ‘dbTableWithSomeData’ name, you will see it as ‘dbTableWithSomeData’, not as ‘dbtablewithsomedata’. Thanks to [Deirdre](http://unlimitedwhispers.com) who found this bug.
• 0.9.2 = 27.09.2010
  - Technical update for WordPress 3.0 full compatibility. Staff deprecated since WordPress v.3.0 is excluded.
  - Italian translation update. Thanks to Alessandro Mariani.
• 0.9.1 = 07.07.2010
  - options form layout problem is fixed. That was wrong pgc-admin.css file version issue.
• 0.9 = 01.07.2010
  - You can mark tables which you do not wish to see as scan results as hidden.
  - You can search extra columns in the core WordPress tables, which could be added by plugins.
  - Czech translation is added.
• 0.6 = 25.05.2010
  - Dutch translation is updated.
• 0.5.2 = 18.05.2010
  - Italian translation is updated.
• 0.5.1 = 14.05.2010
  - German translation is updated.
• 0.5 = 12.05.2010
  - Italian translation is added.
  - Lost translation domain inserted into a few places in the source code. Translators a welcome to update their work .
• 0.4 = 03.05.2010
  - “Delete Tables” button is added
  - General code cleanup
• 0.3 = 02.05.2010
  - German, Japanese translations are added
  - Another text domain ‘pgc’ missing bug is fixed
• 0.2 = 01.05.2010
  - French, Indonesian, Spanish translations are added
  - Text domain ‘pgc’ missing bug is fixed
• 0.1 = 29.04.2010
  - 1st pre-release of the “Plugins Garbage Collector” WordPress Plugin.

FAQ

Coming soon. Just ask it. I will search the answer.

I am ready to answer on your questions about this plugin usage and help with possible problems. Use Plugins Garbage Collector plugin forum or this page comments and site contact form for that please.

Thanks,
Vladimir, ShinePHP.com.

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