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

• Go to Sweepify in your WordPress admin menu

• Click Start New Scan

• Wait for the background scan to complete (progress bar shows live status)

• Review results by category: Unused, Duplicates, Broken, Oversized, Thumbnails

• Select files and click Move to Trash

• Restore any file from trash if needed

• 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.