Description
Astricode Ops helps you block spam registrations, review suspicious users, clean and inspect WordPress data, analyze autoloaded options, and convert JPG and PNG images to WebP from one operational workspace.
Live Demo
Explore the Astricode Ops live demo to see Astricode Ops Free and Pro in a safe, read-only WordPress environment with prepared sample data. No signup, installation, or password is required.
Its key database safety feature is reversible quarantine. For supported option, metadata, and table operations, records can be isolated before permanent deletion, verified, restored if needed, or explicitly purged. This creates a review-first cleanup workflow instead of making every database action immediately irreversible.
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Astricode Ops Free keeps destructive and repetitive operations under explicit administrator control. It includes real-time registration protection, multi-signal user analysis, manual spam-user cleanup, database inspection and optimization, reversible quarantine, manual WebP processing, diagnostics, and activity logs. Scheduled user cleanup and automatic WebP processing require Astricode Ops Pro.
Site health and diagnostics
- Unified operational dashboard.
- WordPress and PHP requirement checks.
- Database, filesystem, locking, and WebP diagnostics.
- Clear health scores based on real installation data.
- Detection of technical conditions that require attention.
Spam registration protection and user cleanup
- Real-time registration firewall for native and third-party registration routes.
- Multi-signal risk scoring for suspicious registrations and existing users.
- Repeated-offender detection and IP blocking.
- User audits with reasons and risk distribution.
- Manual protection for legitimate accounts.
- Controlled manual cleanup of detected spam users.
- Manual deep analysis and cleanup tools with additional safeguards.
- Protection for administrators, privileged roles, active users, authors, and users connected to site content.
Astricode Ops can block or remove an unequivocally malicious account during registration as part of its real-time protection. Scheduled user cleanup requires Astricode Ops Pro.
Database cleanup, autoload and reversible quarantine
- Database size and health analysis.
- Table optimization with measured results.
- Inspection of WordPress options and autoloaded data.
- Detection and review of database records that may require cleanup.
- Inspection of post metadata and plugin tables.
- Protected previews and controlled exports.
- Manual protection of critical records.
- Reversible quarantine for supported option, metadata, and table operations.
- Integrity verification before restoration.
- Explicit restoration and permanent purge workflows.
WebP conversion for image optimization
- Controlled manual JPG and PNG to WebP conversion in bounded batches.
- Configurable quality and batch size.
- Preservation of every original JPG and PNG image.
- Conversion of WordPress-generated image sizes.
- Coverage, activity, savings, skipped-file, and failure metrics.
- Automatic WebP processing is available with Astricode Ops Pro.
Activity logs
- Registration blocking records.
- User cleanup activity.
- WebP conversion results.
- Database operation records.
- Limited log retention to avoid uncontrolled growth.
Important safety notes
- Create and verify a full backup before performing database or user cleanup operations.
- Reversible database quarantine is an additional recovery mechanism, not a replacement for backups.
- Original JPG and PNG files are preserved during WebP conversion.
- User cleanup includes safeguards, but every site has a different data model and should be reviewed before deletion.
- Deactivation preserves stored configuration, statistics, quarantine records, and logs.
- Removing the plugin files does not automatically delete persisted data.
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Installation
- Upload the
astricode-opsfolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Activate Astricode Ops from the WordPress Plugins screen.
- Open
Astricode Ops > Diagnostics. - Run the technical diagnostic.
- Review the Dashboard before performing user cleanup, database, or WebP operations.
FAQ
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Does Astricode Ops delete the original JPG or PNG files?
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No. WebP conversion creates WebP alternatives alongside the original files and WordPress-generated image sizes.
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Can I deactivate the plugin without losing its configuration?
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Yes. The stored configuration, statistics, quarantine records, and logs are preserved.
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Does Astricode Ops Free automate user cleanup or WebP conversion?
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No. Astricode Ops Free provides administrator-controlled manual user cleanup and manual WebP processing. Scheduled user cleanup and automatic WebP processing require Astricode Ops Pro.
The registration firewall can still block or remove an unequivocally malicious account during registration as a real-time protection safeguard. That is separate from scheduled cleanup.
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What is reversible database quarantine?
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For supported database operations, Astricode Ops can isolate selected option, metadata, or table records before permanent deletion. Quarantined records can be reviewed, integrity-checked, restored when supported, or permanently purged later.
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Is reversible quarantine a replacement for a database backup?
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No. Quarantine adds a controlled restoration path for supported operations, but a verified external backup remains essential.
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Why does the diagnostic inspect the uploads directory?
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WebP processing requires write access to the current and historical upload folders containing the physical image files.
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Contributors & Developers
“Astricode Ops” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.0.5
- Adds the formal extension contract required by Astricode Ops Pro.
- Exposes the versioned Free/Pro extension API and core-ready lifecycle contract.
- Keeps Astricode Ops Free functionality and public compatibility unchanged.
1.0.4
- Prepared the stable Astricode Ops package for public distribution.
- Added registration firewall traceability to the Dashboard.
- Added counters for native registration, custom forms, REST API, AJAX,
wp_insert_user,registration_errors,user_register, and recent-user consistency checks. - Added the last detected registration route, blocking layer, score, username, and email domain without storing the complete email address.
- Fixed duplicate IP penalization during post-registration safeguards.
1.0.3
- Expanded registration protection to third-party forms and integrations.
- Added consistency checks for recently created accounts.
- Centralized post-registration spam safeguards and event traceability.
1.0.2
- Added separate pre-registration and post-registration risk thresholds.
- Added an immediate safeguard for unequivocally malicious newly created accounts.
- Preserved administrator, WP-CLI, cron, privileged-role, and explicitly allowed registrations.
1.0.1
- Unified registration protection with the complete user risk engine.
- Added protection for registration flows using
wp_insert_user(). - Added firewall consistency diagnostics.
1.0.0
- First stable release of the original production-tested architecture.
- Included health diagnostics, registration protection, user auditing, database operations, reversible quarantine, WebP processing, and activity logs.
- Preserved conservative cleanup rules and persistent data during deactivation.
Older development history is preserved in the project documentation.