WPCreatix

<p><strong>Media Sweep: The Ultimate WordPress Media Library Cleaner</strong></p>
<p>Media Sweep is a powerful WordPress plugin designed to help you reclaim valuable server space by identifying and safely removing unused media files from your WordPress site. Whether you’re dealing with orphaned attachments, forgotten uploads, or files left behind by themes and plugins, Media Sweep provides a comprehensive solution to keep your media library clean and organized.</p>
<p>Perfect for bloggers, agencies, e-commerce sites, and any WordPress website looking to optimize storage space and improve site performance.</p>
<p>🚀 <strong>Key Benefits:</strong></p>
<p>✅ <strong>Reclaim Server Space</strong> – Remove unused files and free up valuable storage<br />
✅ <strong>Improve Site Performance</strong> – Faster backups and reduced server load<br />
✅ <strong>Safe & Reversible</strong> – Files moved to trash folder, not permanently deleted<br />
✅ <strong>Smart Detection</strong> – Advanced algorithms identify truly unused files<br />
✅ <strong>Batch Operations</strong> – Process multiple files efficiently<br />
✅ <strong>Detailed Analytics</strong> – Comprehensive scan reports and file insights</p>
<h3>🎯 Core Features</h3>
<h3>🔍 Dual Scan Modes</h3>
<p><strong>Media Library Scan</strong><br />
* Scans all media attachments in your WordPress library<br />
* Checks for usage in posts, pages, and custom fields<br />
* Detects thumbnail and size variations<br />
* Identifies gallery shortcodes and blocks<br />
* Fast and efficient for large media libraries<br />
* <em>Recommended for most WordPress sites</em></p>
<p><strong>File System Scan</strong><br />
* Deep scan of your uploads directory<br />
* Finds orphaned files not in the media library<br />
* Detects cache and temporary files<br />
* Identifies theme and plugin generated files<br />
* Comprehensive but may take longer to complete<br />
* <em>Best for sites with file management plugins</em></p>
<h3>📊 Smart File Detection</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Usage Analysis</strong> – Checks posts, pages, custom fields, and widgets</li>
<li><strong>Database Scanning</strong> – Searches content for file references</li>
<li><strong>Shortcode Detection</strong> – Identifies gallery and media shortcodes</li>
<li><strong>Block Analysis</strong> – Scans Gutenberg blocks for media usage</li>
<li><strong>Plugin Integration</strong> – Detects files used by popular plugins</li>
<li><strong>Theme Assets</strong> – Identifies theme-related media files</li>
</ul>
<h3>🗂️ Advanced File Management</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Status Classification</strong> – Files categorized as In Use, Unused, or Orphaned</li>
<li><strong>Bulk Actions</strong> – Select and process multiple files at once</li>
<li><strong>Smart Filtering</strong> – Filter by file type, status, date, and directory</li>
<li><strong>Search Functionality</strong> – Quickly find specific files</li>
<li><strong>Preview Mode</strong> – View files before taking action</li>
<li><strong>Detailed File Info</strong> – Size, type, usage locations, and more</li>
</ul>
<h3>🛡️ Safety Features</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Trash System</strong> – Files moved to secure trash folder, not deleted</li>
<li><strong>Restore Capability</strong> – Easily restore accidentally removed files</li>
<li><strong>Backup Integration</strong> – Works with popular backup plugins</li>
<li><strong>Progress Monitoring</strong> – Real-time scan progress with pause/resume</li>
<li><strong>System Resources</strong> – Intelligent resource management prevents timeouts</li>
<li><strong>Rollback Protection</strong> – Safe operations with detailed logging</li>
</ul>
<h3>📈 Comprehensive Analytics</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Scan History</strong> – Track all previous scans and results</li>
<li><strong>Storage Statistics</strong> – See exactly how much space you’ve reclaimed</li>
<li><strong>File Breakdown</strong> – Detailed analysis by file type and status</li>
<li><strong>Usage Patterns</strong> – Understand your media library usage</li>
<li><strong>Performance Metrics</strong> – Scan duration and processing statistics</li>
</ul>
<h3>🚀 Easy 3-Step Process</h3>
<p><strong>Step 1: Choose Scan Type</strong><br />
* Select Media Library or File System scan based on your needs<br />
* Configure advanced options for thorough analysis</p>
<p><strong>Step 2: Run the Scan</strong><br />
* Watch real-time progress as Media Sweep analyzes your files<br />
* Pause and resume scans as needed without losing progress</p>
<p><strong>Step 3: Review & Clean</strong><br />
* Browse detected files with detailed information<br />
* Use bulk actions to efficiently process multiple files<br />
* Restore files from trash if needed</p>
<h3>🔧 Advanced Configuration</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Scan Options</strong> – Deep scan, thumbnail inclusion, custom field checking</li>
<li><strong>File Type Filters</strong> – Focus on specific file types (images, documents, etc.)</li>
<li><strong>Directory Exclusions</strong> – Skip specific folders during scans</li>
<li><strong>Performance Settings</strong> – Adjust batch sizes and resource limits</li>
<li><strong>Automation Rules</strong> – Set up automatic cleanup schedules (planned for future versions)</li>
</ul>
<h3>💡 Perfect For</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Content Creators</strong> – Bloggers and publishers with large media libraries</li>
<li><strong>Web Agencies</strong> – Managing multiple client sites efficiently</li>
<li><strong>E-commerce Sites</strong> – Cleaning up product images and assets</li>
<li><strong>Membership Sites</strong> – Optimizing user-generated content</li>
<li><strong>Portfolio Sites</strong> – Managing large image collections</li>
<li><strong>News Sites</strong> – Handling high-volume media uploads</li>
</ul>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>Need help with Media Sweep? We’re here to assist!</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Support Forum:</strong> <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/media-sweep/" rel="ugc">WordPress.org support forum</a></li>
<li><strong>Feature Requests:</strong> <a href="https://wpcreatix.com/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">Submit ideas and suggestions</a></li>
<li><strong>Bug Reports:</strong> <a href="https://wpcreatix.com/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">Report issues for quick resolution</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>Media Sweep respects your privacy and does not collect or transmit any personal data. All file analysis and cleanup operations are performed locally on your server. No external services are contacted during plugin operation.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Media Sweep is crafted with ❤️ by the <a href="https://wpcreatix.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPCreatix</a> team. We’re passionate about creating tools that help WordPress users optimize and maintain their websites efficiently.</p>
<p>Special thanks to the WordPress community for their continuous feedback and support in making this plugin better.</p>


Media Sweep – WordPress Media Cleaner

Clean up your WordPress Media Library by finding and removing unused files. Safely scan, preview, and sweep away orphaned media to keep your site fast …

Freemius

Milan Petrovic

<p>SweepPress is an easy-to-use WordPress plugin built around 52 different Sweepers for database cleanup (the Pro version has 57), support for WP-CLI, and WP REST API to perform the cleanup operations. The plugin also features a powerful WordPress Options database table management panel.</p>
<h4>Quick Video Overview</h4>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" title="SweepPress Lite: Website Cleanup and Optimization" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vmy2XbjpYoI?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<h4>Options Management</h4>
<p>The WordPress Options database table holds settings for WordPress Core, all the plugins, and themes. This table can grow significantly, especially since records are not auto-deleted when removing a plugin or theme. SweepPress has Sweepers that deal with transient cache records (stored in this table), and now, since version 3.0, it has a full Management panel where you can see all the records in the <code>Options</code> table, detect source for the record and status to help you decide if you should delete the record or not.</p>
<p>SweepPress has two methods to detect the source of the record, and it will mark all the recognized records. This panel doesn’t show transient records (used for cache) or WordPress options (deleting these options is a terrible idea). There is also a Quick Tasks subpanel, which can help you quickly remove options fitting into few standard predefined criteria.</p>
<p><strong>Options deletion process is not automatic! No matter how precise options usage detection is, you need to verify and confirm that you want to delete one or more records.</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.dev4press/plugins/sweeppress/" rel="nofollow ugc">SweepPress Pro</a> It also has advanced management panels for all the WordPress metadata and multisite Sitemeta database tables, including options to track the usage of meta-records, and remove all the entries from the database associated with specific meta.</p>
<h4>Modes of Sweeping</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Auto Sweep</strong>: available on the dashboard, running many (not all) sweepers without user input.</li>
<li><strong>Quick Sweep</strong>: available on the dashboard, allowing the sweepers to be selected.</li>
<li><strong>Full Sweep</strong>: available on its panel, with detailed information about sweepers and no limit run.</li>
<li><strong>CLI Sweep</strong>: the plugin supports WP-CLI and adds commands to run all the sweepers with the command line.</li>
<li><strong>REST API Sweep</strong>: the plugin supports WP REST API and allows sweeping via the new REST endpoints.</li>
</ul>
<p>All sweepers use optimized SQL queries to find the data for removal, which is also done using SQL queries. This is the fastest and most efficient way to remove a large amount of data quickly.</p>
<h4>List of Sweepers</h4>
<ul>
<li>Posts: Auto Drafts</li>
<li>Posts: Spam Content</li>
<li>Posts: Trashed Content</li>
<li>Posts: Posts Revisions</li>
<li>Posts: Posts Orphaned Revisions</li>
<li>Posts: Draft Posts Revisions</li>
<li>Posts: Postmeta Locks</li>
<li>Posts: Postmeta Last Edits</li>
<li>Posts: Postmeta Oembeds</li>
<li>Posts: Postmeta Old Data</li>
<li>Posts: Postmeta Orphans</li>
<li>Posts: Postmeta Duplicates</li>
<li>Comments: Spam Comments</li>
<li>Comments: Trashed Comments</li>
<li>Comments: Unapproved Comments</li>
<li>Comments: Orphaned Comments</li>
<li>Comments: Comments User Agents</li>
<li>Comments: Commentmeta Orphans</li>
<li>Comments: Commentmeta Duplicates</li>
<li>Comments: Pingbacks Cleanup</li>
<li>Comments: Trackbacks Cleanup</li>
<li>Comments: Akismet Meta Records</li>
<li>Terms: Terms Orphans</li>
<li>Terms: Termmeta Orphans</li>
<li>Terms: Termmeta Duplicates</li>
<li>Terms: Term Relationships Taxonomy Orphans</li>
<li>Terms: Term Relationships Objects Orphans</li>
<li>Terms: AMP Validation Errors</li>
<li>Terms: Unused Terms</li>
<li>Users: Usermeta Orphans</li>
<li>Users: Usermeta Duplicates</li>
<li>Options: Expired Transients</li>
<li>Options: RSS Feeds</li>
<li>Options: All Transients</li>
<li>Options: CRON Jobs</li>
<li>Options: Unhooked CRON Jobs</li>
<li>Network: Expired Transients</li>
<li>Network: All Transients</li>
<li>Network: Inactive Signups</li>
<li>Database: Optimize Database Tables</li>
<li>Database: Repair Database Tables</li>
<li>ActionScheduler: Log Entries</li>
<li>ActionScheduler: Orphaned Log Entries</li>
<li>ActionScheduler: Failed Actions</li>
<li>ActionScheduler: Completed Actions</li>
<li>ActionScheduler: Canceled Actions</li>
<li>bbPress: Replies Orphans</li>
<li>BuddyPress: Activity Meta Orphans</li>
<li>BuddyPress: Groups Meta Orphans</li>
<li>BuddyPress: Messages Meta Orphans</li>
<li>BuddyPress: Notifications Meta Orphans</li>
<li>Elementor: Trashed Submissions</li>
</ul>
<h4>WP-CLI and WP REST API Support</h4>
<p>The plugin registers new CLI commands for running sweep operations from the command line (WP-CLI is required). It also registers the REST API endpoint for the same purpose: running remote sweep operations (only for the administrator role!). CLI and REST API support can be enabled through plugin settings.</p>
<h4>Action Scheduler Support</h4>
<p>The plugin can clean up the ActionScheduler tables. These tables are used by the Action Schedule plugin and components developed for WooCommerce but also in many other WordPress plugins, including WP Rocket and Rank Math. For these sweepers to be visible, at least one plugin using those tables needs to be active.</p>
<h4>Additional Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Sweeper File Log: log every sweeper execution into a log file with all sweeper/removal SQL queries executed by each used sweeper.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Special Notice</h4>
<p>The plugin will show the backup reminder notice by default (and it can be disabled) on every page. It is essential to understand that once the plugin deletes data, it can’t be restored. So, if you change your mind later, it is important to make the backup before the data removal. The SweepPress plugin is not responsible for any data loss — ensure backups! In SweepPress Pro, there is a Backup Data feature that will create partial backups from data before it is removed and store it into SQL export files.</p>
<h4>Plugin Home Page</h4>
<ul>
<li>Learn more about the plugin: <a href="https://www.dev4press/plugins/sweeppress/" rel="nofollow ugc">SweepPress Home Page</a></li>
<li>Plugin knowledge base: <a href="https://www.dev4press.com/kb/product/sweeppress/" rel="nofollow ugc">SweepPress on Dev4Press</a></li>
<li>Support for the Lite version: <a href="https://support.dev4press.com/forums/forum/plugins-lite/sweeppress/" rel="nofollow ugc">Support Forum on Dev4Press</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>SweepPress Pro</h4>
<p>SweepPress Lite edition is a fully functional plugin with no limits to its operations. But SweepPress Pro contains a lot of additional features not available in the Lite version:</p>
<ul>
<li>Backup the data before it is deleted into SQL export files. Includes a management panel for Backup files.</li>
<li>Management for ALL the WordPress Metadata tables: <code>postmeta</code>, <code>termmeta</code>, <code>commentmeta</code>, <code>usermeta</code> and <code>blogmeta</code>.</li>
<li>Management for the WordPress Multisite Sitemeta table: this table is equivalent of the Options table, but for all the blogs in the multisite.</li>
<li>Track and Detect use of metadata and allow removal of any meta-records for all supported metadata tables.</li>
<li>Preview duplicated metadata records for all supported metadata tables. Preview data for some sweepers.</li>
<li>Create and manage Sweeper Jobs: create custom background sweeper jobs to run at a specific date or as a recurring job.</li>
<li>Control and track WordPress CRON jobs: list all the WordPress CRON jobs, track and display the source, and more.</li>
<li>Sweeper Monitor: monitor the website for cleanup daily or weekly, and send notifications when the sweeping limit is reached.</li>
<li>Database Tables: an overview of all tables in the database with source information and various actions for better control.</li>
<li>GravityForms Support: three additional sweepers to remove all trashed forms, spammed, and trash entries by form.</li>
<li>CLI Command to list CRON jobs: list all registered WP CRON jobs via the command line.</li>
</ul>
<p>Future updates will include more exclusive Pro features.</p>


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