MediaRef Cleanup Auditor

MediaRef Cleanup Auditor analyses attachment records, content, metadata, and the uploads filesystem using durable, bounded jobs. It includes exact duplicate hashing, thumbnail analysis, optional live verification, quarantine and restoration, builder and plugin capability reporting, REST workers, and WP-CLI. There is no paid edition, scan limit, license server, advertising gate or required external service. All processing occurs on the WordPress installation. Donations may support development but do not change functionality. Safety language is deliberate: “No reference detected” is not proof that an item is unused. Dynamic code, remote consumers and unsupported data stores can create blind spots. Every cleanup attempt performs a fresh targeted reference check and verifies file identity. Built for large and old media libraries Scans use database-backed jobs, keyset cursors, adaptive bounded batches, staged publishing, and expiring worker locks. A browser refresh does not erase progress, and the same job can be resumed with WP-CLI. The Storage Explorer groups files by year, month, MIME type, attachment ownership, and derivative type, making sites with upload folders spanning many years easier to review. Included without feature locks

• Media Library, metadata, options, builder, and filesystem reference analysis.
• Durable uploads manifest with missing, unknown, generated, and orphan-file classification.
• Exact duplicate groups using file size, MIME type, and SHA-256 fingerprints.
• Thumbnail inventory, missing-size analysis, selective cleanup review, and reporting.
• Optional same-origin live-page verification, disabled by default.
• Storage Explorer and Large Image Analyzer with date, folder, dimension, and size filters.
• Protected and ignored media states.
• Identity-checked private quarantine, restoration, and separate permanent deletion.
• REST dashboard workers and the complete wp mediaref-cleanup-auditor WP-CLI command set.
• Individual scanner classes for supported builders, galleries, commerce, LMS, membership, multilingual, cache, and custom-field ecosystems.

There is no Pro edition, image limit, scan limit, remote license validation, or required account.

1.2.2

• Added bulk filesystem manifest writes and larger adaptive browser batches.
• Added cursor indexes for large staged runs.
• Reused unchanged duplicate fingerprints from the previous published scan.
• Replaced per-file matching and thumbnail queries with joined batch operations.
• Deferred expensive image probing and populated dimensions from metadata and derivative filenames.

1.2.1

• Added cleanup candidates with age, status, folder, MIME and size filtering.
• Added exact duplicate groups with usage-aware keep recommendations.
• Added durable dry-run and quarantine jobs with one-item fresh rechecks.
• Added a quarantine manager with restoration and confirmed permanent deletion.
• Added browser-to-WP-CLI cleanup job continuity.

1.1.0

• Added a Storage Explorer with year/month, MIME, original, generated and unmapped totals.
• Added a paginated Large Image Analyzer with folder, byte-size and dimension filters.
• Added bounded image-dimension probing during filesystem scans.
• Added conservative optimization-saving estimates without modifying files.

1.0.6

• Added WordPress-bundled jQuery for delegated actions and smooth transitions.
• Replaced the result notice with a detailed reference dialog.
• Added working protect and unprotect actions from the result dialog.

1.0.5

• Prevented incomplete job data from rendering immediately after starting a scan.
• Kept scan-type controls stable and disabled during job creation.

1.0.4

• Rebuilt the administration application in dependency-free vanilla JavaScript.
• Added delegated events, cached DOM access, targeted scan updates, and GPU-friendly transitions.
• Removed the React and WordPress Components runtime from the admin screen.

1.0.3

• Replaced the generic REST parser with an explicit same-origin JSON client.
• Improved REST error reporting and environment recommendations.

1.0.2

• Rebuilt the administration interface with the native WordPress Components library.
• Added a professional overview, scan monitor, results table, environment report, and parser coverage view.
• Added responsive, accessible interaction and visual states without external UI services.

1.0.1

• Fixed scan cursors repeatedly restarting a stage instead of advancing.
• Added a no-progress guard and clearer processed-row wording.

1.0.0

• Durable staged scan engine and REST/CLI workers.
• Library, metadata, filesystem, duplicate, thumbnail and live scanners.
• Capability and parser blind-spot reporting.
• Identity-verified quarantine, restoration and permanent deletion.