Is your site still running slow, like it's just coming out of hibernation? Have you tried every optimization trick from cacheing to throwing cash at it? It might just be your database dragging you down. For both dedicated developers and beginner bloggers, we'll show you MySQL commands, WordPress functions, and easy-to-use plugins that'll get your databases slimmed down and ready for swimsuit season

1. Spring Cleaning Your Site:
Dirtless Databases
How to Keep Your WordPress Database Squeaky Clean

2. Adam Soucie
• Highforge
• Web Developer
• Content writer

3. • All of your site’s data
• Pages, posts, comments,
etc.
• You don’t have a site without
it
What is WordPress Database?

4. 4 Easy Tips
1. Optimize using MySQL
2. Repair broken tables
3. Prevent/limit revisions
4. Delete excess junk

5. • Make a database
backup
• Spend 10 minutes
reviewing your site
• Set up a development
environment if possible
BEFORE YOU BEGIN

6. Optimizing using MySQL
1. Log in to PHPMyAdmin
2. Select “Check Tables
Having Overhead”
3. Select “Optimize Table”

8. • Can be done through
PHPMyAdmin
• WordPress will repair
automatically as of 2.9
• Must be enabled in
wp-config.php
Repairing Broken Tables

9. define( 'WP_ALLOW_REPAIR', TRUE );
Source: http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/wordpress-maintenance-101-how-to-optimize-and-repair-database-tables/

10. Prevent/Limit Revisions
1. Different from autosaves
2. Revisions created every
time you save
3. Can be limited or
completely prevented
4. Handled in
wp-config.php

11. define( 'WP_POST_REVISIONS', X );
where X is the number of revisions
or
‘TRUE’ to allow unlimited
Source: http://codex.wordpress.org/Revisions

12. • Expired transients
• Spam and unapproved
comments
• Trashed items (posts,
pages, etc.)
Cleaning Excess Junk

13. define( ‘EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS’, X );
where X is the number of days
Source: http://www.wpexplorer.com/optimize-wordpress-database/

14. The Transients Debate
1. Created with the Transient API
2. Supposed to expire and be deleted
3. Relied upon by lazy developers
4. WordPress only wipes them on Database Upgrades

15. The Plugins
1. WP-Optimize
2. purge-transients
https://github.com/Seebz/Snippets/tree/master/Wordpress/
plugins/purge-transients

16. Any questions?

17. Sources:
The WordPress Codex
WP Tavern (wptavern.com)
WP Explorer (wpexplorer.com)
Stu Miller (stumiller.me)

18. More info:
www.adamsoucie.com
www.highforge.com
Illustrations by:
Tina Fiume