TIEtools Automatic Maintenance Kit

No. This is the all-in-one version for people who want the functionality of three separate plugins in one place.

Absolutely no idea. It was never designed for that, so I'd honestly be surprised if it does.

Yes, it is. I would LOVE to hear your comments, see your reviews and listen to what you'd like added or changed. You can do that here on WP.org (through the support forum) or at http://www.setupmyvps.com/tietools.

No. Since they're all included in TIEtools, I don't bother to add new functionality to the others any more. Any reported bugs get fixed, of course.

There are a few differences, yes. The most obvious - apart from the revamped options page - is the addition of on/off switches for each process. On top of that, TIEtools offers image expiry which is not available in TIEexpire. This functionality allows you to strip images out of existing posts after a given number of days, so you can keep post text while saving space. The email notification process is extended in TIEtools. As well as sending notification of expired posts, it can send emails for removed duplicates. This is not available in TIEdupedeleter. There's also a more flexible error log filename option in this version which isn't in the separate plugin because that one is specifically built to run without any input or intervention.

No. All the plugins use exactly the same option names wherever there is overlap. They will retain your settings when switching from the separate plugins to the all-in-one or vice versa, provided nothing weird happens.

They shouldn't. They use different function names but the same options and database queries, so they should coexist peacefully (and unnecessarily).

Please refer to the appropriate plugin's list of questions:

• TIEexpire FAQ
• TIEdupedeleter FAQ
• TIElogremover FAQ

Image expiry allows news sites to keep the text of their posts but shed all the space-consuming imagery after a user-defined number of days. The plugin does this by stripping out the HTML that shows images, the WordPress shortcodes for image captions and "unattaching" the images. You can optionally delete the images (and their associated resized versions) as they are stripped out of the posts or you can leave them in your media library and deal with them later. Note that the automatic deletion does not work retroactively (i.e. it won't go through your media library deleting all your unattached images).

Some themes and other addons put unattached images into the media library. For example, a blog logo that you upload to a theme's settings page usually ends up there. It is possible for the image expiry process to remove these images. If you want to play safe, don't use the delete option in the image expiry settings. Alternatively, attach the images to a page of your choice so that they will be secure.

Yes, but you'll have to edit the plugin file. Look for the function called TIEtools_postexpire and move things around in there.

Yes. You'll have to edit the plugin file, though. Look for the TIEtools_send_notification function (it's at the end of the file, so it's easy to find). There's a different email for each recipient, with an additional phrase added to all three for duplicate posts, so you can customise to your heart's content.

At most once per hour. You can change this in the do_TIEtools_activation function: switch the value 'hourly' to whatever suits you (and will work with wp_cron).

The very first time the queries run, it might. This is especially true if you have a lot of posts and use several of the checks. Notifications are particularly ponderous. In testing, it caused a delay of a few seconds in page serving the first time it ran with all three notification emails marked and around 100 expirations to do. After that, I never noticed a delay again, even with a reasonable expiry rate.

You're reading it. The plugin code is also heavily commented to help you find your way. You can visit the plugin homepage at http://www.setupmyvps.com/tietools for thoughts and comments.