Unused media scan flags images still in use
The unused-media scan flags images that pages, WooCommerce galleries and Elementor layouts still use as unused, so owners risk deleting live files.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
11 public reports · first reported 7 May 2020 · last reported 7 August 2025
What's going wrong
Site owners who run the WPS Cleaner unused-media scan on WooCommerce shops, Elementor sites and theme-driven blogs report that it marks images as unused even though pages still display them. Some saw every image in their library flagged, including product photos, logos, video posters and images inside page-builder content. Others lost images after cleaning. The scan does not seem to read every place WordPress stores image references, so owners must check each file by hand before deleting. A tool that reads these sources before flagging would give site owners a safer way to clean media.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports.
Products affected
WPS Cleaner.
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Who has this problem
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