Ultimate media cleaner vs WP-Sweep

Ultimate media cleaner give you the power to find “unused files” (please read the next line) in your sites and delete them Unused files is more “not usage found” with our detection system. You have to know that WP is easy to use, but is a very complex software. Remember that WP can be used like e-commerce, video share platform, normal blog, etc. So is impossible to be 100% accurate about the “unused files”, so for this version we changed for “Not usage found”, this phrase is more accurate about what this plugin do PRO VERSION We made one Pro version, we added some “nice to have feature”, you can find it at Ultimate media cleaner PRO Crawler option Even if we made all possible to try to find reference in the database, there are some files used in ways impossible to detected internally. The only way is to use one web crawler and to detect the reference in direct in your HTML, JS and CSS code We work in our own web crawler, you can find it at Ultimate media cleaner Crawler (external and pay service) We made one Pro version, we added some “nice to have feature”, you can find it at Ultimate media cleaner PRO HOW THIS PLUGIN WORK Is important to you to know how this plugin work, so here we go: The plugin is composed in 5 prat Find files from database and find files from your folder system part This two parts are really similar, the unique difference is where the information is coming from. Files from the database will show you every file and images found in the database (in your database this will be the table Post with values post_type=’attachment’) And folders, are files found in the wp-upload folder. Keep in mind that some plugin use this folder to add their own files, and this plugin will not detect their usage After selecting from where you want to show the WP files The plugin will try to find out if the file is used or unused, this is made with some sql script, trying to found some physical reference in post and pages Try to find if the file is used in some shortcode (coming soon) Found if the crawler system detected the file (pay service) Show you the result and give you the opportunity to delete, ignored the “unused files”, if is used, the plugin will not show any option You can ignore the file, because you know that this file is used, but the file have the “unused” label You can put in the delete list (this will not delete the file) Keep in mind that the “not usage found” label can have from 0% to 100% accuracy The delete list part You can see every file that you want to delete, so have two option, continue and delete them or remove it from them from the list Try to make your own verification and validate that the file you want to delete is not used in your site The option part You can found some useful configuration, like hide the delete button for children images The crawler part You can crawl your site to have better accuracy in the “not usage found” found HOW TO USE IT This plugin is like “one-shot usage”, you should do: In only one day (you can take one day without making news post or page, to make this maintenance activity ) Make one backup of your site (There are good backup plugin in WP) Add one test post or page with test images/files See if the plugin is working and detecting the test images/file are used Delete the unused test files or images See if the test post or page is working as it should If the plugin is working for this test, go with some productions post and page (like the oldest, the least viewed or less important posts or pages) See if the plugin is working and detecting the images/file are used Delete the unused files or images You have two possible result: Working, not working Working Keep going with other images and files, but trying to see if your site still working Delete all unused files/images Normally your site is free of unused files, so you can delete and forget about the plugin Not working restore your site from the backup system Delete the plugin Find another plugin IMPORTANT This plugin can destroy your site IF you don’t know how to use it, YES YOU CAN DESTROY IT!!! This plugin need you to see if is working like it should, take the “not usage found” like inaccurate and go by little steps, see if is working with your WP configuration, plugins, themes, etc. Is very wisely to use one backup system, that take in account your upload folder and database HOW IT WORKS They are some big part of this plugin: the search: it show you all medias in your site, from the database or you upload folder the verification: try to find if the media is used, if all detection fail to find reference, the media will show like is “not usage found”, but again this can be inaccurate deletion: after you chose witch files will be deleted, the plugin will delete it from the database and from your upload folder

WP-Sweep finds the rows WordPress leaves behind and removes them. Revisions of posts you edited years ago, meta belonging to a post that was deleted, terms attached to nothing, term relationships pointing at posts that no longer exist, expired transients: none of it is visible anywhere in wp-admin, and all of it is in your database. It uses the proper WordPress delete functions wherever they can reach the row, rather than running raw delete queries, so the hooks other plugins rely on still fire. Only the rows the API refuses to touch — orphaned meta whose object ID is 0 — are deleted directly. Features Revisions Auto drafts Deleted posts Unapproved comments Spammed comments Deleted comments Orphaned post meta Orphaned comment meta Orphaned user meta Orphaned term meta Orphaned term relationships Unused terms Duplicated post meta Duplicated comment meta Duplicated user meta Duplicated term meta Transient options oEmbed caches in post meta Optimizes database tables Delete functions used wp_delete_post_revision() wp_delete_post() wp_delete_comment() delete_post_meta() delete_comment_meta() delete_user_meta() delete_term_meta() wp_remove_object_terms() wp_delete_term() delete_transient() delete_site_transient() Known incompatibilities These plugins keep data in places WP-Sweep reads as orphaned. Protect their meta keys with the filters under Usage before sweeping. Custom Fonts Elementor Popup Builder MailPress Meta Slider Polylang Slider Revolution Viba Portfolio WPML Donations I spent most of my free time creating, updating, maintaining and supporting these plugins, if you really love my plugins and could spare me a couple of bucks, I will really appreciate it. If not feel free to use it without any obligations. Usage Every sweep is irreversible, so back your database up first. The screen lists every sweep with a short description of what it removes, how many items that is, and what proportion of the table they are. Tick the ones you want and use the Sweep bulk action, or use each row’s Sweep and Details buttons one at a time. Nothing on the screen needs JavaScript: the buttons are ordinary links and the bulk action is an ordinary form. There is no settings screen. The one thing worth tuning — how many items Details lists, 500 by default — is the wp_sweep_limit_details filter. The cap exists because the whole sample is held in memory and written into the page. WP-CLI wp sweep --all wp sweep revisions wp sweep revisions auto_drafts deleted_posts REST API All three routes need the activate_plugins capability. GET /wp-json/sweep/v1/count/ GET /wp-json/sweep/v1/details/ DELETE /wp-json/sweep/v1/sweep/ Item names revisions, `auto_drafts`, `deleted_posts`, `unapproved_comments`, `spam_comments`, `deleted_comments`, `transient_options`, `orphan_postmeta`, `orphan_commentmeta`, `orphan_usermeta`, `orphan_termmeta`, `orphan_term_relationships`, `unused_terms`, `duplicated_postmeta`, `duplicated_commentmeta`, `duplicated_usermeta`, `duplicated_termmeta`, `optimize_database`, `oembed_postmeta`. Filters wp_sweep_postmeta_whitelist (array) — post meta keys that must never be deleted, by the orphaned or the duplicated post meta sweep. * matches any run of characters. Default: empty. wp_sweep_commentmeta_whitelist (array) — the same, for comment meta. wp_sweep_usermeta_whitelist (array) — the same, for user meta. wp_sweep_termmeta_whitelist (array) — the same, for term meta. wp_sweep_excluded_taxonomies (array) — taxonomies left out of the orphaned term relationships sweep. Default: array( 'link_category' ). wp_sweep_excluded_termids (array) — term IDs left out of the unused terms sweep. Default: each taxonomy’s default term, plus any term that is the parent of another. wp_sweep_limit_details (int) — how many items a Details list shows. Default: 500. wp_sweep_defer_counts (bool) — whether the Sweep screen renders first and fetches its counts afterwards, one at a time. Return false to compute every count with the page, as versions before 2.0.1 always did. Default: true. wp_sweep_capability (string $capability, string $context) — the capability required. $context is one of sweep, ajax or rest. wp_sweep_total_count (int $count, string $name) — the total number of rows a sweep’s percentage is measured against. wp_sweep_count (int $count, string $name) — how many items a sweep would remove. wp_sweep_details (array $details, string $name) — the sample list shown by Details. wp_sweep_sweep (string $message, string $name) — the message reported after a sweep has run. Actions wp_sweep_admin_post_sweep, `wp_sweep_admin_comment_sweep`, `wp_sweep_admin_user_sweep`, `wp_sweep_admin_term_sweep`, `wp_sweep_admin_option_sweep` and `wp_sweep_admin_database_sweep` all fire below the sweep table, in that order. Protect specific post meta keys from being swept: add_filter( 'wp_sweep_postmeta_whitelist', function ( $meta_keys ) { $meta_keys[] = '_my_plugin_setting'; $meta_keys[] = '_acme_*'; return $meta_keys; } ); Exclude an additional taxonomy from the orphaned term relationships sweep: add_filter( 'wp_sweep_excluded_taxonomies', function ( $taxonomies ) { $taxonomies[] = 'product_type'; return $taxonomies; } );