Transients Manager vs WP-Optimize
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| Feature | Transients Manager v2.0.7 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 5.0/5 Visit Details | WP-Optimize v4.7.0 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.8/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 20,000+ | 1M+ |
| Last updated | October 18, 2024 | September 21, 2026 |
| Editions | Transients Manager | WP-Optimize · WP-Optimize Premium ($) |
| Pros | View, search, edit and delete transients from Tools; Bulk delete of expired or persistent transients; Toolbar button to pause transient writes | Page, browser and minified-asset caching in the free edition; Database cleanup for revisions, spam, tables and more; Image compression and WebP conversion |
| Cons | A developer tool; deleting transients can break features; Shows cross-promotion notices for other plugins; Offers to install other plugins from the admin | Unused CSS, Google Fonts hosting and Cloudflare purge are paid; Image compression relies on the reSmush.it service; Many scheduled background jobs run on the site |
| Mentioned in our posts | — | 1 |
| Features (Speed Optimization plugins checklist) | ||
| Page cache | — | Yes |
| Browser cache | — | Yes |
| Minify CSS/JS | — | Yes |
| CDN | — | Yes |
| Object cache | — | No |
| Database cleanup | — | Yes |
| Free version | — | Yes |
| More features | ||
| Other features | List all transients in the database, Search transients by name, Edit the name, expiration and value of a transient, Bulk delete of expired, persistent or all transients, Toolbar button to pause transient writes, Cross-promotion notices for other plugins | Image compression through reSmush.it, WebP conversion of compressed images, Scheduled page cache preload, 404 error log with daily pruning, Gzip compression test, Spam comment review link, Unused CSS removal ($), Local hosting of Google Fonts ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| Other | WordPress.org plugin directory | reSmush.it, checkgzipcompression.com, Cloudflare ($) |
| Requires WordPress | 5.3 | 4.9 |
| Requires PHP | 5.6.20 | 7.2 |
| Tested up to | 6.6 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | — | checkgzipcompression.com, api.resmush.it, plugins.svn.wordpress.org, teamupdraft.com |