WordPress Cleanup : Remove Unused Tags

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WordPress is a blogging platform that powers TechHive and various other blogs on the internet and keeping your WordPress installation clean is a bit of a challenge sometimes. So, in order to keep your blog healthy and running, all you need to do is remove a few unwanted things from your blog. I have compiled a list of items that you can remove in order to make your WordPress installation clean!

Well, cleaning is good for everything and so it is for your WordPress blog! You can clean up a lot of things for your WordPress blog, which includes the following.

• Unwanted Plugins


• Unwanted Themes


• Unused Tags


• Unused Categories

These things tend to take up space on in your database and make your actual data processing slow. So, we need to perform actions to make it load fast and also remove unwanted stuff!

Before proceeding ahead, please make a backup of your WordPress files and Database just in case something goes wrong and you end up with a messy WordPress blog!

Remove Unwanted Tags from WordPress :

1.  To begin with this cleaning process, you need to install a plugin. Go to your WordPress Dashboard and Choose Add Plugin. Then, search for Mass delete unused tags. Download and install the plugin.
   


2. Now, Activate the plugin.
   


3. Next, go to Plugins -> Delete all unused tags.
   


4. Then, choose "Yes, delete all unused terms" . This will delete all the unused tags you have on your WordPress Blog.
   


5. Hope you are able to clean up your WordPress blog with this simple tool.

In case of the others, i.e. Unwanted plugins or Unwanted Themes, you will have to delete them manually because a Plugin can not predict which ones are unwanted for you! So, that is all up to you which one to keep and which ones to delete but make the right choice! Don't compromise your blog in order to remove plugins!

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