Title: Media Verdict Author: Vanf Published: October 10, 2026 Last modified: October 10, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/media-verdict/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=3738041) ![](https://ps.w.org/media-verdict/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3738041) # Media Verdict By [Vanf](https://profiles.wordpress.org/guillermo-kafelnikov/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/media-verdict.0.4.1.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-verdict/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-verdict/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-verdict/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-verdict/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/media-verdict/) ## Description Media Verdict scans your whole site — post content (all post types, drafts and revisions), post meta (featured images, WooCommerce galleries, Elementor data), term meta, user meta, options (widgets, customizer, logo, site icon) and builder/slider sources ( Smart Slider 3, Revolution Slider, LayerSlider, Master Slider, Visual Composer, WPBakery, Cornerstone, Oxygen) — and tells you which media library items are in use and which have **no detected usage**. Fail-safe by design: * When in doubt, an item is marked as **used**. * The UI says “no detected usage”, never “guaranteed unused” — no scanner can see dynamic references (hardcoded CSS, JS-built URLs, email templates). * Deletion **always** creates a ZIP snapshot first (original + all generated sizes, with md5 manifest). * Deletion **always** goes to the WordPress trash, never forced. * One-click restore from the snapshot, with integrity verification. In the Media Library (grid and list modes) used items get a green frame and unused- detected items a red frame with a badge; hovering or clicking shows the evidence(“ Used in: Post #123, Product #45”). WP-CLI: `wp media-verdict scan|list|snapshot|trash|restore|report`. ## Screenshots [⌊Media Library grid with green "in use" and red "no usage detected" frames.⌉⌊Media Library grid with green "in use" and red "no usage detected" frames.⌉[ Media Library grid with green “in use” and red “no usage detected” frames. [⌊Scan dashboard: counters, filters and per-file evidence table.⌉⌊Scan dashboard: counters, filters and per-file evidence table.⌉[ Scan dashboard: counters, filters and per-file evidence table. ## Installation 1. Upload the `media-verdict` folder to `wp-content/plugins/`. 2. Activate it. 3. Go to Media Media Verdict and run a scan. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Media Verdict” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Vanf ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/guillermo-kafelnikov/) [Translate “Media Verdict” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/media-verdict) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-verdict/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/media-verdict/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/media-verdict/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/media-verdict/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 0.4.1 * New: 12 more usage parsers — Elementor, Divi, ACF, Beaver Builder, Bricks, Breakdance, Fusion Builder (Avada), Meta Box, Toolset, Spectra, Kadence Blocks and SiteOrigin Page Builder. 20 parsers total, all fail-safe (they can only mark files as in use, never as unused). #### 0.4.0 * New: Filesystem scan — walks the uploads directory and flags files with no media library entry (orphans + orphaned derivatives such as thumbnails, retina and WebP whose master is gone). Quarantine zips files into a snapshot first; nothing is deleted outright. * New: Duplicate detection — SHA-256 hashing during the filesystem scan, with a compare-and-resolve view to keep one file per group and snapshot the rest. * New: References ledger — every usage reference from the last scan in one searchable table, with one-click CSV export for audit trails. * Plugin header now ships `Plugin URI` and `Author URI` (linked author + plugin name in the plugins list). #### 0.3.2 * Internationalization: all user-facing strings are now English source strings with full Spanish (es_ES) translation shipped in `languages/` (`media-verdict. pot` included for translators). The UI follows the site language automatically— no manual switch needed. * WordPress.org review compliance: renamed the internal AJAX action prefix from` mv_` to `media_verdict_` (plus nonces, script handles and related identifiers) to meet the directory prefixing guideline; readme Contributors now uses the WordPress. org username and the short description was shortened to 145 characters. #### 0.3.1 * Fixed: scans started from wp-admin lost all evidence between AJAX requests (the driver creates a new scanner per request) and marked everything as unused. Evidence is now persisted per batch in the `media_verdict_scan_evidence` option and merged back before finalizing, so admin scans produce the same verdicts as CLI scans. #### 0.3.0 * New builder parsers: Cornerstone (`_cornerstone_data` “ID:size” attachment references) and Oxygen (`ct_builder_json` numeric `attachment_id`s, with stripslashes for its escaped JSON). Both detected and verified against real test pages. * Builder coverage is now: Smart Slider 3, Revolution Slider, LayerSlider, Master Slider, Visual Composer, WPBakery, Cornerstone, Oxygen — plus Divi, Beaver Builder and Depicter via the generic content matcher. #### 0.2.0 * Builder/slider parsers: Smart Slider 3, Revolution Slider, LayerSlider, Master Slider, the new Visual Composer and classic WPBakery shortcodes — each with its own storage format (custom tables, escaped JSON, base64 blobs, template placeholders). Filterable registry (`media_verdict_parsers`). * Fixed: URL normalizer regex that silently broke every URL-based match. * Settings: new “Parsers activos” list showing which builders were detected on the site. #### 0.1.0 * Initial release: detection engine, library overlays, snapshot/trash/restore flow, WP-CLI. ## Meta * Version **0.4.1** * Last updated **9 hours ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 6.4 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.1.3** * PHP version ** 8.0 or higher ** * Tags * [cleanup](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/cleanup/)[images](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/images/) [media](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/media/)[media library](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/media-library/) [unused images](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/unused-images/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-verdict/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/media-verdict/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/media-verdict/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Vanf ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/guillermo-kafelnikov/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/media-verdict/)