About this plugin
InTouch Media Cleaner finds attachments in your Media Library that nothing on the site references any longer, so you can reclaim the disk space they take up. It is built around one rule: it would rather miss an unused image than delete one that is still in use.
This plugin is built to fail safe: when its coverage of your site is incomplete — an unsupported page builder, an offloaded file, a custom field — it says so in plain language and holds back, instead of producing a confident list that could break a live page.
What it looks at
- Post and page content — Gutenberg blocks (image, gallery, cover, media-text, video, file), classic shortcodes ( [gallery], [playlist], [caption] ), raw HTML ( wp-image-N classes, src / href / srcset, inline CSS url() ), including drafts, trashed posts and revisions.
- Structural links — featured images ( _thumbnail_id ), attachment parents.
- Theme — site icon, custom logo / header / background for every installed theme, Additional CSS.
- Full Site Editing — global styles and block-theme backgrounds.
- Widgets — image, gallery, custom HTML, block widgets.
- Navigation menus — items pointing straight at an attachment or an uploads/ file.
- Comments — uploads/ URLs mentioned in comment text.
- WooCommerce — product and variation images, product galleries, category / brand images, the placeholder and e-mail header images, downloadable files.
- Elementor — images, galleries and background images in Elementor data, page and global-kit backgrounds, popups and Theme Builder templates, and the media dynamic tag.
- A deliberately noisy safety sweep — any value in the options table, or in post / term / user meta, that matches a real attachment ID or URL is treated as a reference. This never deletes anything; it only protects.
How it keeps you safe
- Confidence, not a raw count. Every candidate gets a score. When site coverage is incomplete — an unsupported builder version, a builder with no integration, a plugin deactivated in the last 30 days, a scanner that failed — the score for every item is capped at 70%, below the default selection threshold of 95%.
- The first scan is analysis only. No deletions are possible until a second scan confirms the picture.
- Freshly uploaded media is untouchable. Anything added in the last 14 days is never proposed, regardless of score.
- Scans expire. Results older than 7 days require a re-scan before any action.
- Soft delete with a real undo. Deleting moves files to a plugin-managed trash with a cooling period; restore brings them back at the same attachment ID, so existing references keep working.
- A shown-work coverage panel. The Scan tab lists what was checked, what was skipped or degraded and why, and the classes of reference no scan can ever see (images used only in transactional e-mails, generated PDFs, external JavaScript, a mobile app, hardcoded in custom PHP, or built by string concatenation).
Privacy
The plugin sends nothing off your server. Its only outbound message is a purge audit e-mail to your site’s admin address after files are permanently deleted, so there is always a trace of what is gone. That e-mail is sent with WordPress’ own wp_mail(); it carries a manifest (file name, size, SHA-256, reason) as an attachment, or — if that is too large — saves the manifest to your site and links to it from the Logs tab.
It can be turned off in the settings. No analytics, no telemetry, no external requests.
Free and paid
This is the free plugin, and every safety mechanism above is part of it — none of them are held back for a paid tier. Support for more page builders and field plugins (Divi, Bricks, Beaver Builder, ACF-aware resolution, a filesystem scan) is planned for a future paid version.