Sweepify – Images Cleaner

Sweepify – Images Cleaner gives you a safe, professional media management dashboard to reclaim disk space and keep your WordPress media library clean — without ever risking your live content.

Every cleanup action goes through a protected trash first. You can restore any file at any time before permanently deleting it.

Features

• Unused image detection — scans posts, pages, widgets, menus, theme mods, featured images, and site options
• Orphaned media detection — finds attachment records without files (phantom) and files on disk without attachment records (untracked)
• Duplicate detection — identifies duplicate files using MD5 hash comparison
• Oversized image flagging — configurable file size (MB) and pixel dimension thresholds
• Obsolete thumbnail detection — finds thumbnail sizes no longer registered in your theme
• Elementor deep scan — scans Elementor JSON data, backgrounds, galleries, and templates (requires Elementor)
• WooCommerce scanning — scans product images, galleries, variations, and category thumbnails (requires WooCommerce)
• ACF field scanning — scans image, file, and gallery fields (requires Advanced Custom Fields)
• Safe cleanup workflow — Scan → Review → Trash → Restore → Permanent Delete
• Plugin-controlled trash — trashed files are moved to your uploads directory and can be restored at any time
• Ignore list — exclude specific attachments, file paths, or folders from all scans
• Background processing — scans run in small chunks via WP-Cron to avoid timeouts on large sites
• Live progress bar — real-time scan progress via REST API polling
• Safety Mode — prevents accidental permanent deletion; all cleanup goes through trash first

How It Works

1. Go to Sweepify in your WordPress admin menu
2. Click Start New Scan
3. Wait for the background scan to complete (progress bar shows live status)
4. Review results by category: Unused, Duplicates, Broken, Oversized, Thumbnails
5. Select files and click Move to Trash
6. Restore any file from trash if needed
7. Only permanently delete when you are confident

Safety First

Sweepify never permanently deletes anything automatically. Every file goes through a protected trash folder inside your uploads directory (uploads/wpic-trash/). You can restore any trashed file at any time.

Permanent deletion requires a timed confirmation token and, if Safety Mode is enabled, an extra confirmation step in Settings.