Email Log Plugin Database Cleanup on your Child Site

A well-known plugin for logging all emails sent from a site is Email Log. The plugin creates a custom database table for storing the log entries of email set in the database table called;

wp_email_log

If the email log plugin is used on a site which has a decent amount of activity, where a normal to high number of emails are being sent, then the site database can easily be bloated. Also, when the plugin is deactivated and deleted, the custom database table will not be deleted.

Email Log does have an option in the setting where you can remove all the data on uninstall, but by default, it will not remove the log data.

Email Log Settings

WP Optimize plugin js an easy way to remove the database table that the Email Log plugin was using.

From the WP Optimize admin menu, go to;

WP Optimize Database Tables

Scroll down or search for wp_email_log, it will show that the email log plugin is not installed anymore. The next step is to click on the remove button, and the database table will be removed. You can confirm the database table has been removed by searching for it.

This can end up being an easy way to reduce the size of a site database table by removing data that is no longer being used. It can easily be a way to remove 400-700 MB of data from the site database, remove some of the bloat, and increase site efficiency.