Atique Ullah

<p>Smart WordPress media library cleanup. Detect unused, orphaned & broken media safely with advanced live scanning.</p>
<h3>The Intelligent Way to Clean & Optimize Your WordPress Media Library</h3>
<p>Orphanix Media Cleanup is a powerful WordPress media management plugin designed to detect unused files, identify broken media references, and safely reclaim valuable server space.</p>
<p>Unlike basic cleanup tools, Orphanix performs both database-level analysis and live frontend verification — ensuring accurate detection without risking important content used by themes, page builders, or plugins.</p>
<p>Whether you manage a blog, WooCommerce store, agency website, or a large media-heavy platform, Orphanix helps you maintain a clean, optimized, and reliable media library.</p>
<h3>Key Benefits</h3>
<p>✔ Free up server storage by removing unused media<br />
✔ Prevent broken images and layout issues<br />
✔ Improve website performance and reliability<br />
✔ Protect dynamically loaded media from accidental deletion<br />
✔ Clean large media libraries safely and efficiently</p>
<h3>Core Features</h3>
<p>🔍 Media Library Scan<br />
• Detect unused and orphaned media files<br />
• Identify unattached media items<br />
• Scan uploads directory for unmatched assets<br />
• Filter by file type (images, videos, PDFs, documents)</p>
<p>🛠 Broken Media Detection<br />
• Find missing image references in content<br />
• Detect corrupted or unreachable media files<br />
• Identify broken URLs affecting layout or SEO</p>
<p>🌐 Live Site Scan (Advanced)<br />
• Scan actual frontend output<br />
• Detect dynamically loaded images<br />
• Verify usage across templates and builders<br />
• Prevent accidental deletion of active media</p>
<p>⚡ Deep Compatibility Detection<br />
• Analyze post content and metadata<br />
• Scan custom fields (ACF supported)<br />
• Detect WooCommerce product image usage<br />
• Identify references in widgets and menus</p>
<p>🛡 Safe Trash & Restore System<br />
• Move files to a secure plugin trash folder<br />
• Restore deleted files anytime<br />
• Permanent deletion only after confirmation</p>
<p>📊 Analytics & Reporting<br />
• View scan summaries<br />
• Track storage savings<br />
• Review categorized results<br />
• Monitor cleanup history</p>
<p>🚀 Performance Optimized<br />
• Batch-based scanning engine<br />
• Designed for large websites<br />
• Memory-efficient processing<br />
• No server overload during scans</p>
<h3>Easy 3-Step Cleanup Process</h3>
<ol>
<li>Run a Media Scan, Broken Media Scan, or Live Site Scan.  </li>
<li>Review detailed scan results and verify usage.  </li>
<li>Safely delete or restore files using the built-in trash system.</li>
</ol>
<p>Simple. Safe. Accurate.</p>
<h3>Why Choose Orphanix Media Cleanup?</h3>
<p>• Dual Scan Engine (Database + Live Verification)<br />
• Advanced builder compatibility detection<br />
• Safe trash workflow before permanent deletion<br />
• Designed for small blogs to large enterprise sites<br />
• Clean interface with real-time scan tracking</p>
<p>Orphanix goes beyond simple “unused file detection” by validating real usage across your entire website.</p>
<h3>Perfect For</h3>
<p>• Bloggers and content creators<br />
• WooCommerce store owners<br />
• Agencies managing multiple sites<br />
• Developers handling large media libraries<br />
• Portfolio and media-rich websites</p>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>Orphanix Media Cleanup runs entirely on your server.</p>
<p>No data is sent to external services.<br />
No tracking. No telemetry.<br />
Full control and privacy.</p>


Orphanix Media Cleanup

Smart WordPress media library cleanup. Detect unused, orphaned & broken media safely with advanced live scanning.

Steven Ayers

John Dorner

<p>Where used? This plugin helps you find usage of attachments, posts, links, blocks and more in all post types, taxonomy terms, post meta, user meta, and menus. This plugin is multisite compatible!</p>
<h4>Items That Will Be Detected</h4>
<ul>
<li>images, attachments</li>
<li>links</li>
<li>Gutenberg custom blocks or reusable blocks</li>
<li>iframes</li>
<li>Shortcodes (coming soon)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Areas Where It Searches For The Items</h4>
<ul>
<li>posts, post meta (even custom post types)</li>
<li>taxonomy terms, term meta</li>
<li>users, user meta</li>
<li>WordPress menus</li>
<li>Redirection rules (if Redirection plugin is installed)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Discover Problems</h4>
<ul>
<li>Broken links ( 404 errors hurt SEO ranking)</li>
<li>Redirects referenced (301, 302 etc.)</li>
<li>Unused reusable blocks</li>
</ul>
<h4>Prevent You From Causing Problems</h4>
<ul>
<li>Know where something is referenced before you delete it and create broken links or broken functionality on your site</li>
<li>Find where a reusable block is used before you delete the reusable block</li>
<li>Find out where blocks are used before you uninstall a plugin that has custom blocks</li>
<li>Know when the slug of your page has been accidentally redirected due to regex matching via Redirection plugin</li>
</ul>
<h3>IMPORTANT: This Plugin DOES NOT</h3>
<ul>
<li>Does not search theme’s code or any plugin’s code for hardcoded references</li>
<li>Does not detect references or backlinks located on websites beyond the scope of your WordPress install.</li>
<li>Does not search custom database tables</li>
<li>WARNING: Does not find every existence of usage due to mentioned lines above and possibly some unforeseen scenarios. Please always be cautious when deleting posts and attachments. This plugin does it’s best to help you be more confident in deleting unused content and maintaining existing content.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Compatible With</h3>
<ul>
<li>Multisite Installations</li>
<li><a href="https://roots.io/bedrock/" rel="nofollow ugc">Bedrock</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/fix-alt-text/" rel="ugc">Fix Alt Text</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/" rel="ugc">Redirection</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/" rel="ugc">Advanced Custom Fields – ACF</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/humanmade/network-media-library" rel="nofollow ugc">Network Media Library</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Recommended Plugins To Install</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/" rel="ugc">Redirection</a> – WhereUsed is more powerful as a tool with the Redirection plugin. Certain features of WhereUsed are not available unless Redirection is installed.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/fix-alt-text/" rel="ugc">Fix Alt Text</a> – Like WhereUsed? You’ll love our other plugin, Fix Alt Text, which will help you manage your image alt text easier for better website SEO and accessibility.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Quick Setup Guides</h3>
<h4>Single Site Setup</h4>
<ol>
<li>Install the WhereUsed plugin per instructions above and then activate it.</li>
<li>Modify settings as need to ensure your entire site gets scanned properly. Adjust settings here: Admin > Tools > WhereUsed > Settings</li>
<li>Do an initial full scan on the bottom right of the Dashboard here: Admin > Tools > WhereUsed</li>
<li>Once the scan is complete, you can review the Dashboard to discover detected broken links and redirects.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Multisite Setup</h4>
<ol>
<li>Install the WhereUsed plugin per the instructions above and activate the plugin for the entire network or go to each site individually in the network and activate the plugin.</li>
<li>All sites will default to using the network settings (for convenience). This can be disabled on a per site basis in the network settings area. WP Admin > Network Settings > Settings > WhereUsed</li>
<li>Each site will need to be scanned so that all references are detected</li>
<li>Multiple scans (full scan on each site) are prevented from running simultaneously to protect the server from getting too overwhelmed at one time.</li>
<li>Once all scans have been run, you will be able to see all references on each site and all references between each site.</li>
</ol>


WhereUsed

Finally, a free plugin that helps to track down all the clutter on a site. We constantly inherit sites that have been neglected for years and years. WhereUsed does a great job to locate and address all these lingering files, links, etc. Thanks, WhereUsed team for your hard work on this plugin.




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