Templ Optimizer
Optimize your site and improve its performance with a few clicks.
Solid choice
Templ Optimizer is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. It runs on 1K+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 1 week ago, and scores 77/100 on our health check.
- Actively developed — last update 1 week ago
- Tested with the latest WordPress (7.1)
- Momentum — downloads up 769.4% vs the previous 30 days
- Very few reviews so far
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Daily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where Templ Optimizer stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| clean-up | #21 |
| database | >100 |
| Optimize | #69 |
| performance | >100 |
| speed | >100 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 5 from 3 reviews
About Templ Optimizer
From the official readme · v2.4.0Description
Templ Optimizer lets you optimize your site and improve its performance with just a few clicks.
We at Templ have optimized 1000s of WordPress websites through the years, and we’ve gathered some of our best optimization tricks in this easy-to-use plugin.
Clean your site’s database and tweak WordPress settings to make your website faster.
Features:
- Clean your site’s database
- Add high-performance database indexes (and revert them)
- Delete trashed posts
- Delete revisions
- Delete auto-drafts
- Delete orphaned post meta
- Delete expired transients
- Delete database tables with other prefix
- Convert MyISAM database tables to InnoDB
- Optimize database tables
- Change heartbeat interval (a.k.a. “heartbeat control”)
- Change WP Rocket cache preload interval
- Limit post revisions
- Increase WordPress memory limit
- Diagnose slow outbound HTTP requests that block PHP
- WP-CLI support
Clean your site’s database
Your WordPress database grows with time and often contains a lot of unnecessary data. Clean your database with Templ Optimizer and see the effect on your database size and experience the difference in performance.
Add high-performance database indexes
As your site grows, WordPress’s default database keys can leave MySQL scanning large tables to find data. Templ Optimizer can add high-performance keys to the core WordPress tables (posts, postmeta, comments, commentmeta, termmeta, users, usermeta and options) so WordPress finds what it needs faster. The change is safe and fully reversible: revert to WordPress’s standard keys at any time. On large tables, use the WP-CLI command to avoid browser timeouts. This capability is inspired by the excellent Index WP MySQL For Speed plugin.
Diagnose slow outbound HTTP requests
Sometimes a site is slow even though CPU load and database queries look fine. A common cause is PHP waiting on slow third-party HTTP calls (wp_remote_get() and similar): these run synchronously, so a slow remote server can hold up a whole page. Enable HTTP request diagnostics to capture completed WordPress HTTP API calls into a dedicated, bounded log (7 days / 100,000 records per site), then find the slowest calls, the destinations with the highest cumulative blocking wait, and the plugin or theme responsible. Only the destination host and a redacted path are stored — never query values, headers, cookies or response bodies. Manage it from the admin app or with WP-CLI (wp templ-optimizer http enable|status|list|summary|show|clear|disable).
Tweak WordPress & plugin settings
Contains many smart tweaks and settings for WordPress as well as some of the most popular plugins. Free up more resources for your site to handle visitors and speed up your website.
Got a feature request?
Are you missing a feature? Do you have ideas on how Templ Optimizer can be improved? Get in touch with us on our website: https://templ.io/
Frequently asked questions
Do I need to take any precautions?
Yes, always backup your database before you do anything with your site’s database.
Where can I get support?
You can find documentation for Templ Optimizer here, where you also can chat with us.
Changelog
2.4.0
- Added: HTTP request diagnostics — find slow outbound
wp_remote_*calls that block PHP, with summaries by destination and by plugin/theme - Added: A dedicated, per-site log with bounded retention (7 days / 100,000 records) storing only host + redacted path — never query values, headers, cookies or bodies
- Added: WP-CLI commands
wp templ-optimizer http enable|disable|status|list|summary|show|clear - Added: A “HTTP Requests” screen in the admin app to enable capture, review the slowest calls and clear the log
2.3.0
- Added: High-performance database indexes for the core WordPress tables, with one-click enable and revert
- Added: Per-table status, drift detection (re-apply keys removed by a WordPress/WooCommerce core update) and a dashboard reminder
- Added: WP-CLI commands
wp templ-optimizer indexes status|enable|disable(the timeout-safe path for large tables)
2.2.0
- Changed: Minimum required PHP version is now 8.0
- Improved: Added strict typing and full type declarations across the plugin’s PHP code
- Improved: Documented all classes, methods and properties with PHPDoc blocks
2.1.3
- Fixed: Blank admin screen caused by the settings app mounting before its router was ready
- Fixed: Expired transients cleanup now counts and deletes expired transients correctly
- Fixed: PHP deprecation notices (dynamic properties) on PHP 8.2+
- Fixed: “Translation loading was triggered too early” notice on WordPress 6.7+
- Tested up to WordPress 7.1 and PHP 8.5
- Updated: Bundled Vue framework to 3.5
2.1.2
- Fixed: Prevent disabling of “optimize tables” button (Thanks Lars! :))
2.1.1
- Fixed: Added assets that had gone missing
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FAQ
Templ Optimizer: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 6, 2026
Is Templ Optimizer free?
Yes. Templ Optimizer is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Templ Optimizer safe to use in 2026?
Templ Optimizer is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. It runs on 1K+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 1 week ago, and scores 77/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Templ Optimizer?
Templ Optimizer is active on 1K+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 12,335 times since it launched in November 2021. It was downloaded 1,504 times in the last 30 days.
Does Templ Optimizer work with WordPress 7.1?
Yes. The developer has tested Templ Optimizer up to WordPress 7.1.3, the latest release. It requires WordPress 6.3 or newer.
What PHP version does Templ Optimizer need?
Templ Optimizer requires PHP 8.0 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.
When was Templ Optimizer last updated?
The latest version, 2.4.0, was released on September 29, 2026 (1 week ago).
Who makes Templ Optimizer?
Templ Optimizer is developed and maintained by Templ.
What are the best alternatives to Templ Optimizer?
The most popular alternatives to Templ Optimizer are Disable Global Style (600+ installs), Bloat Buster (30+ installs) and Advanced Clean Master (10+ installs).
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