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dimadin/clean-expired-transients
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Safest and simplest WordPress transients garbage collector.

1.2(9y ago)117GPL-2.0+PHP

Since May 4Pushed 8y ago1 watchersCompare

[ Source](https://github.com/dimadin/clean-expired-transients)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/dimadin/clean-expired-transients)[ Docs](http://blog.milandinic.com/wordpress/plugins/clean-expired-transients/)[ RSS](/packages/dimadin-clean-expired-transients/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced today

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Clean Expired Transients
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[![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/c00e6253307db20918fffeed7a5a5bbde94b6f441bb0719b152d523ce9317276/68747470733a2f2f6170692e7472617669732d63692e6f72672f64696d6164696e2f636c65616e2d657870697265642d7472616e7369656e74732e706e673f6272616e63683d6d6173746572)](https://travis-ci.org/dimadin/clean-expired-transients)

[Plugin homepage](https://milandinic.com/wordpress/plugins/clean-expired-transients/) | [Plugin author](https://milandinic.com/) | [Donate](https://milandinic.com/donate/)

Safest and simplest transients garbage collector.

This plugin cleans every transient from database older than one minute using safe native WordPress function. It works on multisite too.

By default, it will check for expired transients once daily, though you can call it any time using `Clean_Expired_Transients::clean();`.

Clean Expired Transients is a very lightweight, it has no settings, just activate it and it works immediately.

Note that it can be used by developers in their project in any place, it doesn't require activation and it's safe to use since it checks is there existing installation, just include it.

###  Health Score

28

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LowBetter than 52% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity7

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity65

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~297 days

Total

3

Last Release

3487d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/54c4bd393dafccafaf09bf6441bbd933db30b4d4fd153211f79636e8838cdac5?d=identicon)[dimadin](/maintainers/dimadin)

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Top Contributors

[![dimadin](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2678421?v=4)](https://github.com/dimadin "dimadin (17 commits)")

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