Title: Finding plugin that created database table
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Finding plugin that created database table

 *  Resolved [jsigned](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jsigned/)
 * (@jsigned)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/finding-plugin-that-created-database-table/)
 * This is a great plugin. This question is not a problem with it but a how to. 
   There are a number of tables it finds that have obscure names that I don’t recognized.
   A long time ago I found what looked like the repository of all the plugins for
   wordpress. I did a search on it and found some code I was looking for. Now I 
   can’t seem to find it again. Is anyone aware of a place to search for table names
   created by plugins?
 * Also I will re-ask the unanswered question below, how does this plugin know if
   a table is being used or not?
 * Thanks
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/wpdbspringclean/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wpdbspringclean/)

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 *  Plugin Author [wpsolutions](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpsolutions/)
 * (@wpsolutions)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/finding-plugin-that-created-database-table/#post-4518739)
 * This plugin basically identifies all tables in your WP system and then it does
   a series of searches in all of the plugin directories and files based on the 
   table name string without the prefix. (The plugin will ignore WordPress core 
   tables to prevent accidental deletion)
 * If the search comes up false then it will list that table as possibly not being
   used and a candidate for deletion.
    It is the user’s responsibility to do any
   extra checks or perform a DB backup before deciding to delete the table.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/finding-plugin-that-created-database-table/#post-4518739)
 * Status: resolved