Janitorix Media Audit

That is the failure mode the entire design exists to prevent, and it is why coverage floors, risk ceilings, and never-delete rules all sit between a scan and any action. But no scanner can see a URL assembled at runtime, or an image embedded in a newsletter you sent last year. Trash first, and check before emptying it.

Elementor is supported directly. For builders that are not — Divi, Bricks, Oxygen — a fallback scanner sweeps for image references it does not understand. It will not raise your confidence score, because it cannot prove it searched thoroughly. It can and does prevent deletions.

Open the dashboard. If a scanner failed, it is named. If coverage is below 70%, it says so. The score is never lowered without a reason you can read.

No. Nothing is ever deleted without you clicking, and nothing is deleted in one step.

Every table and option the plugin created is removed. Your media is not touched.

The Media Library's "Unattached" filter is not the answer — see below. Check post content, post meta (ACF fields, page builders, featured images), options (logo, Customizer, widgets), and theme files, by filename and by attachment ID. Or run a scan here: every image gets a confidence score with the evidence behind it.

Only after two conditions: the image is proven unused (not merely unattached), and deletion goes through Trash first so a mistake is reversible. This plugin enforces both — it refuses Trash for anything at Medium risk or above, and nothing is ever deleted in one step.

Every upload stays unless someone removes it, and WordPress generates several resized copies per upload. Unused originals plus their thumbnails accumulate silently. A periodic scan keeps it flat.

It can, in ways no database scan sees. An image can be unused on your site and still rank in Google Images or be hotlinked elsewhere — check Search Console, Performance, Images before a bulk delete. Deleted URLs return 404, which loses any signal they had; redirect if they mattered. Sitemaps list images too, and take time to regenerate. When in doubt, Trash and wait before emptying.

"Unattached" only means the image was not uploaded inside a post. It says nothing about whether anything references it — a logo, a Customizer image and most page-builder images are all "unattached" and all in use. Unused means no reference anywhere, which takes a real search to establish.