Comments on: Clean Options Plugin Release Candidate

By: Mittineague

Mittineague — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:00:20 +0000

With WordPress version 2.9 comes some major relief for this plugin. WordPress removes the troublesome "rss_hash" options! Woot!

Also included are 3 new translations:
Brazilian Portuguese
Simplified Chinese
Croation (Hrvatski)

1.3.0 16-Jan-2010

* updated the $known_ok array (for WordPress 2.9)
* optimized for WordPress 2.9
* replaced deprecated user_role
* pt_BR Portuguese translation
* zh_CN Chinese translation
* hr_HR Croation translation

By: Sparanoid

Sparanoid — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:01:48 +0000

I think it's better to move CleanOptions link under Settings tab.

By: Mittineague

Mittineague — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:24:44 +0000

Despite the security hole with versions of WordPress < 2.8.4, some users still run older versions. So I have added a fix for those with WordPress < 2.7

But I have also removed a feature that is only available with WordPress < 2.3, that being the option description in the "pre-delete review" screen.

This version also has a Belarusian translation.

1.2.3 10-Sep-2009

* removed WordPress < ver. 2.3 feature
* WordPress < ver. 2.7 fix
* be_BY Belarusian translation

By: Mittineague

Mittineague — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:28:46 +0000

This release does not contain any code changes, but includes language files for Spanish, Russian and Ukrainian.

1.2.2 27-Aug-2009

* es_ES Spanish translation
* corrected ru_RU Russian translation
* uk_UA Ukrainian translation

By: Mittineague

Mittineague — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:34:33 +0000

Clean Options version 1.2.1 has quite a few changes. Some Core options that were missed in version 1.2.0 have been added to the "known core" array so that they won't be accidently removed. Thankfully, the SimplePie "transient" options seem to take care of themselves and do not clutter the database with obsolete feed data like Magpie did. Because of this, bloggers that are using WordPress version 2.8+ can now remove all of the "rss" options.

As not all blogs have the default content and plugin folder arrangement, the Clean Options plugin now works for those non-default blogs.

Even though the plugin has been using nonces, it now also has a capability check for even more security.

The first of the translations, in ru_RU Russian, has been completed and is included in this version.

1.2.1 14-Aug-2009

* added more "transient"s
* allow 2.8+ blogs to remove all obsolete rss_hash rows
* allow for non-default folder locations/names
* improved unpaired rss block
* capability check for added security
* eliminate 2.8+ false warnings
* ru_RU translation
* minor tweaks
* changed Version History to Changelog in readme

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:24:01 +0000

Love this plugin. Use it on all my wordpress.org blogs. I am glad to know I can delete the _transient_feed lines … I was looking to compact my databases before I backed them up and used to delete the RSS lines, but I was a bit worried when I just checked and didn't see what I was used to! Thanks.

By: Riccardo

Riccardo — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:29:18 +0000

Hi there, the trouble is I have thousands tags with 0 count! It looks like there's no simple way to achieve this!

By: Mittineague

Mittineague — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:23:46 +0000

Hi Riccardo,

Tags are not kept in the wp_options table. Writing code to allow Clean Options to delets unused tags would most likey amount to writing so much code that it would end up being like a plugin in a plugin.

And I'm not sure deleting tags requires a plugin. If you log in and go to Posts -> Post Tags, you will see a paginated table of tags with the number of posts they're associated with under the Posts column. I don't have any "0" tags so I haven't tried it, but my guess is that if you delete a tag from there, it will handle the job well.

By: Riccardo

Riccardo — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:17:10 +0000

Great plugin mate. How about adding a function to remove orphaned/unused tags?

By: zonebattler

zonebattler — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:05:54 +0000

Thanks for the quick reply! Yes, I realized already that there are many "_transient_feed_" and "_transient_timeout_feed_" rows now, but I didn't draw the (obvious) conclusion myself that these are the "replacements" of the "rss_" rows of previous WordPress versions.

I'm happy to see that I mustn't take the "database error" warning of your plugin too seriously! That makes me feel much more comfortable with my precious blog…

Thanks again for doing that cumbersome work which should have been done by the WordPress programmers in the first place!

Greetings from across the Atlantic,
Ralph