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database plugins
346 plugins in the directory carry the database tag. This page leads with what has moved in the last 90 days, because a ranked list of the biggest ones is available anywhere.
What moved
Ownership changes, closures and long-silent plugins that shipped again, over a rolling 90-day window recomputed daily. Events older than 90 days drop off as new ones arrive. The part of this category that a directory listing cannot show. Nothing here says anything about intent.
| Date | Plugin | Installs | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Oct 2026 | DB Table Viewer | 90+ | released after a long silence |
| 21 Oct 2026 | Loadvexa – Autoload & Cache Diagnostics | fewer than 10 | changed hands |
| 18 Oct 2026 | detabess | 10+ | released after a long silence |
| 17 Oct 2026 | SnapShots | 20+ | released after a long silence |
| 07 Oct 2026 | Cache Cleaner X-Ray – Performance & Database Diagnostics | 200+ | released after a long silence |
| 05 Oct 2026 | Emoji Guard | fewer than 10 | changed hands |
| 02 Oct 2026 | Preserve MainWP Connection | 100+ | released after a long silence |
| 02 Oct 2026 | Emoji Guard | fewer than 10 | released after a long silence |
| 19 Sep 2026 | Simple Table Manager | 400+ | released after a long silence |
| 17 Sep 2026 | Templ Optimizer | 1,000+ | released after a long silence |
| 08 Sep 2026 | Publish kintone data | 50+ | released after a long silence |
| 26 Aug 2026 | Database Read Replicas | 10+ | released after a long silence |
| 12 Aug 2026 | Plugins Garbage Collector (Database Cleanup) | 10,000+ | released after a long silence |
Most installed
The 50 most installed plugins carrying this tag, ordered by install band, which WordPress.org rounds to one significant digit. Ordering is adoption only. Nothing here is a recommendation, and no link on this page earns anything. The full directory, all categories together, is in the master list.
| Plugin | Installs | Rating | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Database Cleaner – Optimize & Clean Database to Speed Up Site Performance Clean database by deleting orphaned data such as 'revisions', 'expired transients', optimize database and more... | 100,000+ | 4.9★ | 3 months ago |
| Search Regex Search Regex adds a powerful set of search and replace functions to WordPress posts, pages, custom post types, and other data. | 100,000+ | 4.7★ | 1 month ago |
| WP-Sweep WP-Sweep allows you to clean up unused, orphaned and duplicated data in your WordPress. It also optimizes your database tables. | 100,000+ | 4.7★ | 2 months ago |
| Go Live Update Urls Change the domain on your site with one click. | 90,000+ | 4.5★ | 10 days ago |
| BackUpWordPress Simple automated backups of your WordPress-powered website. | 80,000+ | 4.7★ | 2.5 years ago · quiet |
| Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions One-click database optimization with precise revision cleanup and flexible scheduling. Speeding up sites since 2011! | 60,000+ | 4.7★ | 6 months ago |
| Database Backup for WordPress Database Backup for WordPress is your one-stop database backup solution for WordPress. | 60,000+ | 4.5★ | 7 months ago |
| WP-DBManager Manages your WordPress database. | 50,000+ | 4.4★ | 3 months ago |
| WP phpMyAdmin [ ✅ 𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐔𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐒 𝐵𝓎 𝒫𝓊𝓋𝑜𝓍 ] phpMyAdmin - Database Browser & Manager (for MySQL & MariaDB) | 40,000+ | 4.6★ | 15 days ago |
| Docket Cache – Object Cache Accelerator Speed up your WordPress site with a persistent object cache, powered by OPcache. An efficient alternative to Redis and Memcached. | 20,000+ | 4.9★ | 22 days ago |
| Database Manager – WP Adminer Manage the database from your WordPress Dashboard using Adminer. | 20,000+ | 5.0★ | 7 months ago |
| Search & Replace Everything by WPCode – Find and Replace Media, Text, Links, and More Search and Replace everything in WordPress. Easily find and replace media, images, text, links and more with a single click using a simple user interf … | 20,000+ | 3.9★ | 3 months ago |
| Advanced WordPress Reset – Debug, Recover & Reset WP The ultimate solution for resetting your WordPress database or specific components to their default settings using the advanced reset features. | 10,000+ | 4.9★ | 3 months ago |
| Database Cleaner: Cleanup, Optimization & Repair Clean up and optimize your WordPress database: revisions, transients, autoload, orphaned data. Built for large databases, safe and fast. | 10,000+ | 5.0★ | 7 days ago |
| Plugins Garbage Collector (Database Cleanup) Find and delete unused database tables belong to deactivated or deleted plugins directly from WP dashboard. | 10,000+ | 4.4★ | 3 months ago |
| WPS Cleaner WPS Cleaner cleans your WordPress site as well as your database. | 10,000+ | 4.3★ | 3 months ago |
| AAA Autoload Optimizer Find and fix bloated autoloaded options slowing down your WordPress database | 9,000+ | 4.6★ | 22 days ago |
| Brozzme DB Prefix & Tools Addons Easily change your WordPress DB prefix, save time, increase security. | 9,000+ | 4.7★ | 9 months ago |
| Database for Contact Form 7 Automatically save all data submitted via Contact Form 7 to your database | 7,000+ | 4.2★ | 18 days ago |
| Business Essentials for Contact Form 7 Business Essentials for Contact Form 7 | 7,000+ | 3.3★ | 1 month ago |
| SQL Buddy – Database Management Made Easy Your one-stop solution for easy WordPress database management | 5,000+ | 5.0★ | 17 months ago |
| SQLite Database Integration Run WordPress on SQLite. | 5,000+ | 4.6★ | 9 days ago |
| CM Search And Replace – Optimize content edits with a powerful search and replace tool Search and replace words, phrases, and HTML within your website posts and pages. | 2,000+ | 4.2★ | 24 days ago |
| Easy WP Cleaner Easy WP Cleaner is user friendly plugin to clean unnecessary data from WordPress database and also allows you to optimize your WordPress database. | 2,000+ | 5.0★ | 13 months ago |
| WP Synchro – The Ultimate WordPress Migration Tool WordPress migration plugin to easily migrate, clone, backup, and synchronize your WordPress site, including database, media, plugins, themes, and file … | 2,000+ | 5.0★ | 2 months ago |
| Transient Cleaner Clean expired transients from your options table. The original and best! | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 3 months ago |
| CF7 Views – Complete Entry Management for Contact Form 7 Easily display Contact Form 7 Entries/Submissions on your site frontend. | 1,000+ | 4.6★ | 1 month ago |
| Change Table Prefix Change the database table prefix first defined in your wp-config.php file. | 1,000+ | 3.8★ | 8 months ago |
| Database Collation Fix Convert tables using utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci or utf8_unicode_520_ci collation to a more portable Collation Algorithm. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 4 months ago |
| Database Access with Adminer Provides a secure interface to your WordPress database using Adminer, the popular database administration tool. | 1,000+ | 4.5★ | 9 months ago |
| Index WP Users For Speed Do you have thousands of users on your WordPress site? Look them up fast. Find authors more easily. Speed up your laggy dashboard. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 2 months ago |
| InstaMigrate Secure REST API endpoints for WordPress site migration — database export/import, file transfer, and search-replace. | 1,000+ | — | 8 days ago |
| Templ Optimizer Optimize your site and improve its performance with a few clicks. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 1 month ago |
| Views for WPForms – Display & Edit WPForms Entries on your site frontend Display and Edit WPForms Entries Directly on Your Website with No Coding Knowledge Needed. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 2 months ago |
| Easy Actions Scheduler Cleaner Clean up your Actions Scheduler database with manual or scheduled cleanup. Remove old actions and logs automatically. | 900+ | 5.0★ | 3 months ago |
| Slider Revolution Search Replace Replace url of old domain to new domain for revolution slider only. | 800+ | 5.0★ | 3 years ago · quiet |
| Record of Consent Extension for Complianz Stores custom consent records triggered by Complianz events with compliance tracking and auditing capabilities. | 700+ | 5.0★ | 11 days ago |
| EZ SQL Reports Shortcode Widget and DB Backup Create and save SQL Reports in your WP Admin and place them on pages and posts with a shortcode. Keep your database safe with automatic backups. | 500+ | 4.7★ | 16 months ago |
| Run SQL Query Run SQL Query is a simple plugin to quickly execute any type of SQL query into the WordPress's DB and export the results in a CSV format file. | 500+ | 5.0★ | 10 years ago · quiet |
| SweepPress: Website Cleanup and Optimization Remove unused, orphaned, duplicated data in your WordPress website using 55+ sweepers, manage and clean Options table, optimize database. | 500+ | 5.0★ | 14 days ago |
| WP Lorem ipsum WP Lorem ipsum automatically create new fake posts to fill the database and get a very good impression for your website. | 500+ | 3.4★ | 5 years ago · quiet |
| Simple Table Manager Enables viewing and editing table records and exporting them to CSV files through a minimal database interface from your dashboard. | 400+ | 4.8★ | 2 months ago |
| WP-Cleanup This Wordpress plugin will cleanup your Wordpress database by remove all unused data from your database. | 400+ | 4.0★ | 16 years ago · quiet |
| Data Source for Contact Form 7 The Data Source for Contact Form 7 plugin populates fields with data from external sources like databases, CSVs, URL parameters, ACF, and others. | 300+ | 5.0★ | 23 days ago |
| Fast Woo Order Lookup Searches for orders faster on WooCommerce stores with many orders. | 300+ | 5.0★ | 8 months ago |
| f(x) Email Log Simple plugin to log all email sent via WordPress. | 300+ | 5.0★ | 9.5 years ago · quiet |
| Cache Cleaner X-Ray – Performance & Database Diagnostics Find what is slowing WordPress down. See what is creating pressure. Clean what is safe. | 200+ | 5.0★ | 26 days ago |
| CodingBunny Database Cleaner Keep your WordPress database fast and clean by removing orphaned data left behind by plugins, themes, and WordPress core. | 200+ | 5.0★ | 9 days ago |
| Options View Edit the contents of the options & usermeta table. | 200+ | 5.0★ | 3 months ago |
| Convert WP Database to UTF-8 Converts the WordPress database (both tables and columns) to UTF-8 character set. | 200+ | 5.0★ | 15 years ago · quiet |
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