Attic — Safe Database Audit

Description

Uninstalled and misbehaving plugins leave behind lingering database bloat — autoloaded options, ghost cron events, stranded transients, orphaned tables. Traditional cleanup tools reach for aggressive drop/delete queries that risk breaking your site.

Attic audits your WordPress database for bloat, without any of that:

• Autoloaded option bloat — oversized options that load on every page request, ranked by size against Site Health’s 800 KB line.
• Ghost cron events — scheduled hooks with no registered callback, firing forever and doing nothing.
• Orphaned tables — tables no installed plugin claims, with reclaimable megabytes up front.
• Stranded transients — expired timeout pairs and orphaned rows.
• Leftovers from deleted plugins — data whose owning plugin is absent from disk entirely.

Two rules outrank every feature:

1. Quarantine, never delete. Options are stored before removal. Tables are renamed (wp_attic_quarantined_*), never dropped until a purge window passes.
2. Nothing is called orphaned until your code has been searched for it. Attic streams wp-content — plugins, mu-plugins, themes, wp-config.php — looking for every candidate name before promoting anything to high confidence.

Every finding shows its full evidence inline: which rule fired, what it attributed to and whether that plugin exists on disk, how many code references were found, and the size. A finding you cannot audit is a finding you should not act on.

Filters

• attic_protected_options — additional never-flag option names
• attic_protected_cron_hooks / attic_protected_tables — same, for cron and tables
• attic_finding_confidence — last word on any single finding’s confidence
• attic_reference_scan_roots — unusual layouts, custom content dirs