S404 Orphaned Attachment Scanner Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
Plugin Description
s404 Orphaned Attachment Scanner helps you find and remove media files that are sitting in your WordPress Media Library but are not used anywhere in your installation — not in posts, pages, widgets, theme customizer, ACF fields, WooCommerce products, page-builder data, or any active plugin’s settings.
Features
- Batched AJAX scan — never times out on large libraries
- 9 detection layers — post content, post meta, featured images, widgets, theme customizer, ACF, WooCommerce, page builders (Elementor, Beaver Builder, Divi, Bricks…), ALL active plugin wp_options
- Filesystem scan — checks theme files and optionally the entire WP installation for hard-coded references
- Format filtering — scan only images, video, audio, documents, or specific formats (JPEG, PNG, WebP, SVG…)
- Age threshold — only flag files older than N days, protecting freshly uploaded assets
- Trash & Permanent Delete — move items to Trash for safety (requires
define('MEDIA_TRASH', true);in yourwp-config.phpto enable the media bin) - Deletion log — every action is recorded with timestamp and username in your local history
- Bulk actions — select, trash, delete, exclude, or export to CSV
- Exclusion list — permanently hide specific IDs, MIME types, or path patterns from scan results
- Scheduled scans — WP-Cron with daily/weekly/monthly frequency and optional email report
- Developer hooks —
s404as_is_attachment_usedfilter,s404as_before_delete/s404as_after_deleteactions
Usage
- Go to Tools S404OrphanedAttachmentScanner
- Optionally select format filters
- Click Start Scan
- Review results — preview thumbnails, file sizes, MIME types
- Select items and use bulk actions, or use per-row buttons
- Export a CSV for your records before deleting
Screenshots
Dashboard — scan controls with format filters
Results table — sorted by file size with bulk actions
