Title: Database Bloat
Last modified: May 6, 2024

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# Database Bloat

 *  Resolved [dfreemanujm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dfreemanujm/)
 * (@dfreemanujm)
 * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-bloat-4/)
 * We installed your plugin about 8 months ago. Starting this past February we noticed
   a HUGE amount of bloat in our database table wp_options. The table was growing
   by about 20k rows a day. Our developer says it is VERY unusual and shouldn’t 
   be writing to wp_options. What can we do to fix this and remove all the rows?

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 *  Thread Starter [dfreemanujm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dfreemanujm/)
 * (@dfreemanujm)
 * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-bloat-4/#post-17736567)
 * This is just a small sample:
 *  Plugin Author [Fahad Mahmood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fahadmahmood/)
 * (@fahadmahmood)
 * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-bloat-4/#post-17737791)
 * I have checked the plugin script files carefully and I am confirming about these
   database entries, these are not related to my plugin. The reason is, my plugin
   is just functioning as a widget, means, it reads the feeds, it doesn’t pull/fetch
   feeds and save into the database. It simply reads and display. Your developer
   should not decide quickly just because of the plugin name says “RSS” in it, take
   more time to find the root cause.
 *  Thread Starter [dfreemanujm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dfreemanujm/)
 * (@dfreemanujm)
 * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-bloat-4/#post-17739318)
 * I’m very confused. We didn’t meant to insinuate we were SURE it was related. 
   We’re looking for your input. Now, what I can tell you is, we turned off your
   plugin and the database stopped growing and there are no more of those transients
   being added to the database. I’m not sure how your plugin is unrelated (this 
   may be due to my ignorance) but doesn’t pull in the feeds. I thought that was
   the whole purpose. It’s not named “rss feed widget”. Are you saying it just connects
   a widget to an rss feed?
 *  Plugin Author [Fahad Mahmood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fahadmahmood/)
 * (@fahadmahmood)
 * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-bloat-4/#post-17739339)
 * I am sure, you are reporting some other plugin functionality.

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## Tags

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 * 4 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Fahad Mahmood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fahadmahmood/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-bloat-4/#post-17739339)
 * Status: resolved