With the unused images cleaner, you can launch a scan to your media folder(uploads) to look for images that are not used anywhere on your website, then isolate the unused(or orphan) images to delete or restore them.
If you are running a WordPress website handling a large number of images, you can benefit greatly from this feature. It helps free up your disk space hence optimize your website performance. Also, cleaning unused(or orphan) images before performing a backup or migration can effectively increase the process success rate.
1. Click Image Cleaner Tab
Login to your Wordpress admin panel. First, install SellCloud Backup Pro on your website. On your left admin menu, click SellCloud Plugin > Image Cleaner.
2. Backup Website
Important Note: Please make sure to backup your website before proceeding further, unless you have a backup in place. In case you forgot to make daily automated backup of your website files and database using the SellCloud Addon Plugin, do not worry as SellCloud makes daily Server Backup Snapshots and keeps 2 days of backup which you can easily restore in one-click.
3. Scan Your Media Folder
On the Scan Media tab that opens, click Scan button to run a scan to your media folder, which is ¡K/wp-content/uploads.
Then the plugin will start analysing the folder and find unused images in it. It offers a progress bar where you can monitor the live progress of the scan.
Note:
- Currently it only scans JPG and PNG images.
- Please do not refresh the page while running a scan.
4. Isolate Unused Images
Once the scan is done, all the unused images in your media folder will be listed.
Now you have options to select specific or all images from the list and isolate them to a folder created by WPvivid Backup Pro, which is ¡K/wp-content/WPvivid_Uploads/Isolate. You can choose to delete or restore the isolated images later.
It offers a search box where you enter an image path e.g. 2021/01/wpvivid-backup-plugin-restore.png or 2021/01/ to search specific images if you have many.
Choose an isolate method from the drop-down menu, click Apply to start isolating images.
5. Delete or Restore Unused Images
All the images you isolated is displayed on the Isolated Media tab, from there you can choose to delete or restore specific or all images.
Note: Once deleted, images will be lost permanently. The action cannot be undone, unless you have a backup in place.
You can also search specific images by entering an image path in the search box if you have many.
Delete Unused Image URL in Database
If you also want to delete corresponding image urls (that are not used anywhere on your website) from your database, before delete an image, go to SellCloud Settings > Media Cleaner Settings > Check the option "Delete Unused Image URL in Database" > Save Changes.