How to Manage and Delete Transients in WordPress?:- WordPress plugin and theme developers mostly uses the transients API for store timely information in your WordPress Database.
They can reuse these information and make their plugins faster by allows them. While this is a marvelous performance technique, but sometimes it may affect during testing or development of your website.
Here in this article we will show you that how to easily manage and delete transients in WordPress.
What is Transients?
For know about transients this is necessary for know that what is transients.
The Transients API in WordPress allows developers to store your information in your wordpress database with an expiration time. This helps you in improve WordPress performace and your website speed up while overall server load.
For example, many WordPress social media plugins use transients to protect and store share counts for posts.
If they didn’t use transients API then your server will need to connect with all social networks on each page load which will slow and decrease your site speed and also performance of website.
That is the reason why transients are awesome and must for your WordPress website.
Now this question arises that why would you ever want to manage or delete transients?
Well, sometimes things will be wrong. Let’s say that connection between facebooks and your website didn’t go so well. Now it is showing a count of 0. You can wait minimum 30 minutes or sometimes longer time for a transient to expire, or you can clear out the transient all cache of your website to get most accurate count.
It also helps in testing of a plugin to make sure that the plugin is really working like it is supposed to.
Last but not least, you may want to delete expired transients to clear out you website database. This is convenient when you are moving a staging site to live at WordPress Hosting Server
Are WordPress transients like cookies?
The transients are like cookies but only in the sense that they both transients and cookies are allows developers to store temporary website information. By the way the transients API is more powerful.
Cookies are stored in the user’s browser and have some disadvantage and several limitation. They also less secure and not as programmable. Here on the other hand transients stored website data more secure and easily programmable with the transients API.
That’s why said let’s take a look at how to easily manage transients in WordPress and delete them when needed.
Managing Transients in WordPress
Firstly you need to install and activate the transients manager. For more information see our step by step guide. You need to visit Tools>> Transients page to view and manage transients used by your WordPress website.
Here you will see a list of transients which stored in your WordPress database.
- Delete expired transients
- Delete all transients with an expiry date
- Delete all transients
You can define a transient by looking it’s name. The product is mostly used by trusted WordPress theme and plugin developers in the transient to make it easily identifiable.
Right next to the name column. Now you will see the value for each particular transient. The value of transient could be an object, number or alphanumeric string as the value.
You will also see an expiration time for each particular transient. In these transient some of the transient have no expiration time set and will be displayed as ‘Does not Expire.’ You can delete any of the transient or click on the edit button to change their value.
This feature is suitable when you are testing theme or plugin and want to check it with different transient values.