Easy Ways to Optimize WordPress Database using WP-Optimize

Zetmedia - When a website has long been active, should be optimized to remove data that is not important (eg revision posting repetitive and automatic draft) so as not to swell the size of the database and blog access speed is not compromised.

You can do this in phpMyAdmin optimization hosting is used. However, this method is quite complicated, especially for those who do not understand the technical hosting. The easy way is to use the plugin WP-Optimize. You can perform database optimization with a single click on your blog.

Here's how to optimize WordPress database using the plugin WP-Optimize.

A. Installing and Activating WP-Optimize

The first step is to install and activate the Wp-Optimize. For this purpose, follow the steps below.

1. Sign into your self-hosted WordPress blog by using your username and password.
2. Once in Dashboard, hover your mouse over Plugins feature, and then click Add New.
   
3. In the search box plugin, type WP-Optimize.
4. In the WP-Optimize brief description that appears, click the Install Now.
   
5. Click Activate Plugin to activate the WP-Optimize.
   

B. Optimization Database

If WP-Optimize is already active, now is the time you use the plugin to optimize your database wordpres blog. The trick below.

1. Click the WP-Optimize feature.
   
2. On the Optimizer page that appears, you'll see a section Clean-up options and Actions. On Clean-up options, select the options that correspond to the condition of your blog. In Actions, select Optimize database tables. After that, click the Process button.
   
3. You'll see notifications about database optimization (including the elimination of spam comments Akismet escaped). 
   

C. Time for Process Optimization

How often optimization should be done? There is no default rule. Personally, I do database optimization after publishing posts. For example, if I publish a post in a week on my blog, the database optimization is done once a week.
As you can see, WordPress database optimization is very easy to use WP-Optimize. Therefore, if you have a self-hosted WordPress blog, you should try WP-Optimize to keep your blog database remain healthy. Good luck!

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