Will this plugin reduce also tables number or only database size?

  • Resolved der34abe

    (@der34abe)


    5 years, 2 months ago

    I have a problem: my databases became too big and hit the limit of inodes of my hosting provider. How to reduce the number of database tables?

    Will this plugin be helpful to do that? Or does removing plugins help in deleting their respective database tables or it only deletes their files?

    Thanks

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  • Plugin Author Younes JFR.

    (@symptote)

    Hi,

    To reduce the number of tables, you should perform a cleanup of your orphaned tables that belongs to plugins/themes that have been deleted without deleting their tables.

    This answers your second question! When deleted from WordPress, plugins and themes should delete options and tables they have created. This is what should be done. However, this is not always the case! Many plugins and themes do not clean their options and tables after their uninstallation.

    As long as you are removing plugins/themes, leftovers will be accumulated in your database and will influence your website performance.

    If you feel that your database has too many tables that are orphaned, you can then proceed to a cleanup. Otherwise, I think that you should simply upgrade your hosting plan.

    Thread Starter der34abe

    (@der34abe)

    Thank you very much for this complete answer!

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