Tag Archives: Clean Options

Clean Options Plugin Release Candidate

The first version of the Clean Options plugin became available in April of 2007. Since then there have been a few bug fixes, a few enhancements, a few version compatibility updates, and couple of minor tweaks.
Two issues still remain that could, and will most likely, be handled differently, but it is believed that the current [...]

Clean Options RSS options

The Clean Options plugin lists options named "rss_(hash value)" and "rss_(hash value)_ts". Where do these options come from? Wordpress uses the fetch_rss function to get content from RSS feeds. For example, the dashboard uses fetch_rss() to get incoming links, dev news (wordpress.org/development/feed/), and planet news (planet.wordpress.org/feed/).
The fetch_rss function uses Magpie to cache the feed contents [...]

Clean Options and Speed

In the blog article The 3 Easiest Ways to Speed Up WordPress, John Pozadzides discusses improving page load time. The Clean Options plugin can help by removing unnecessary rows from the wp_options table. How much does this speed up queries? Relatively, probably not much unless you have many excess rows. But then again, why make [...]