Title: PRBLEM Sweep Author: PRBLEM Published: September 8, 2026 Last modified: September 8, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/prblem-sweep/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=3687185) ![](https://ps.w.org/prblem-sweep/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3687185) # PRBLEM Sweep By [PRBLEM](https://profiles.wordpress.org/prblem/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/prblem-sweep.1.6.0.zip) * [Details](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/prblem-sweep/#description) * [Reviews](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/prblem-sweep/#reviews) * [Development](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/prblem-sweep/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/prblem-sweep/) ## Description PRBLEM Sweep is a conservative WordPress maintenance utility built around a simple rule: understand first, classify risk, and never silently treat ambiguous data as disposable. PRBLEM Sweep builds on Recovery Guard, Duplicate Media and Autoload Inspector with five focused maintenance areas: * Cleanup Rules — configurable boundaries for revision retention, stale auto drafts, trashed posts, spam comments and trashed comments. Rules only narrow candidate sets; they never promote REVIEW data to SAFE. * Cron Inspector — read-only WordPress Cron visibility with cautious naming signals when a hook resembles a plugin observed being removed. Cron is never unscheduled automatically. * Plugin Leftover Intelligence v2 — pre-delete snapshots now include options, transients, tables, post meta keys, user meta keys, WordPress Cron hooks and active Action Scheduler hooks. All residue remains PROTECTED and inspection-only. * Never Touch Guards — explicit owner protections for database cleanup categories, media attachment IDs, option names, tables and cron hooks. Database authorization and media actions check guards at action time. * Before / After Reports — database cleanup actions record bounded candidate counts and database-footprint estimates before and after cleanup. Storage-engine allocation may remain stable even after rows are correctly removed. Existing safeguards remain: * Database cleanup creates bounded recovery points before removal and stops when a required snapshot cannot be stored. * Duplicate media scanning uses SHA-256 and never treats duplicate bytes alone as permission to remove an attachment. * Possible unused and duplicate media are re-checked immediately before being moved to WordPress Trash. * Autoload inspection remains read-only. * Naming similarity is evidence, not proof, so plugin residue deletion stays locked. Compact workspaces keep the page short: * Overview — Quick Sweep and a small intelligence queue. * Database — Candidates / Cleanup Rules subviews. * Media — Possible Unused / Duplicate Files subviews. * Leftovers — compact removal history plus a collapsed seven-area residue inspector. * System — Storage / Autoload / Cron / Never Touch / Recovery / Reports subviews. Visit https://prblem.com/ for PRBLEM products. ## Screenshots [[ [[ [[ [[ [[ [[ ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “PRBLEM Sweep” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ PRBLEM ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/prblem/) [Translate “PRBLEM Sweep” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/prblem-sweep) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/prblem-sweep/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/prblem-sweep/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/prblem-sweep/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/prblem-sweep/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.6.0 * Refreshed the WordPress admin visual system to match the PRBLEM Sweep public brand: cream surfaces, charcoal panels and lime SafeClean accents. * Added a live status ring and compact Database, Media, Leftovers and Recovery metrics to the main hero. * Reworked Overview cards, primary cleanup CTA, status badges and workspace navigation for clearer hierarchy without changing cleanup policy or backend behavior. * Preserved the tested 1.5.2 SafeClean, Recovery, Cron, media, leftover and Never Touch logic unchanged. #### 1.5.2 * Tightened Cron Inspector removed-plugin matching to prevent generic words such as check, update, plugin, cron, and task from creating false REVIEW signals. * Exact cron hooks captured before plugin deletion now provide the strongest leftover evidence; fallback naming signals require a full slug or distinctive token boundary match. #### 1.5.1 * Prepared plugin metadata, licensing and readme content for WordPress.org distribution. * Clarified recovery results by separating logical cleanup items from physical database rows restored. * Fixed transient-pair recovery accounting so one cleanup item is reported as one restored item. * Prevented active or reinstalled plugins from being reported as removed-plugin Cron leftovers when an older installation used a different folder name. * Marked historical residue from a currently installed plugin as reinstalled/active and excluded it from active leftover counts. * Improved duplicate-media scan diagnostics with attachment, readable-file, size- collision, hash-file and byte counters. * Hardened WordPress.org Plugin Check compatibility for prepared queries, identifier placeholders and read-only admin request handling. * Kept Cleanup Rules, Never Touch guards, read-only inspectors, Recovery Guard and media Trash safeguards unchanged. #### 1.5.0 * Added rule-aware cleanup boundaries for revisions, auto drafts, trash posts, spam comments and trash comments. * Added read-only WordPress Cron Inspector with removed-plugin naming signals. * Expanded Plugin Removal Watch to residue intelligence v2 across seven evidence areas. * Added Never Touch guards for database categories, media IDs, options, tables and cron hooks. * Database and media action-time checks now honor explicit guards. * Added before/after cleanup reports with database-footprint snapshots and row- removal counts. * Added compact Database Rules and System Cron / Guard / Reports subviews. * Kept plugin residue deletion and cron unscheduling locked. #### 1.4.0 * Added bounded Recovery Guard for database cleanup actions. * Cleanup is cancelled when a required recovery point cannot be stored safely. * Added seven-day recovery retention, ten-point limit and 5 MiB per-point safety cap. * Added restore conflict protection: existing post/comment IDs are never overwritten. * Added manual SHA-256 duplicate-image scanning with 300-attachment and 256 MiB hash budgets. * Duplicate media is never auto-deleted; only duplicate attachments that also pass the unused-media re-check can be moved to WordPress Trash. * Added read-only Autoload Inspector with largest-option size signals and cautious possible-owner hints. #### 1.3.0 * Replaced the long single-page dashboard with compact workspace navigation. * Added Overview, Database, Media, Leftovers and System workspaces. * Added Quick Sweep for current SAFE database categories. * Added selectable SAFE database bulk cleanup. * Added orphan post meta, comment meta and term meta cleanup. * Added guarded bulk media Trash actions with fresh candidate checks. #### 1.2.0 * Added the central SafeClean Engine. * Added conservative risk policy for supported database cleanup categories. * Added detailed plugin residue inspector and evidence scoring. * Kept plugin residue deletion locked. * Moved third-party WordPress admin notices outside the visual hero. #### 1.1.0 * Rebuilt the Admin UI around the PRBLEM visual identity. * Added Visit PRBLEM.com links. #### 1.0.0 * Initial release. ## Meta * Version **1.6.0** * Last updated **1 day ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 6.2 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.1** * PHP version ** 7.4 or higher ** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/prblem-sweep/) * Tags * [cleanup](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/cleanup/)[cron](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/cron/) [database](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/database/)[maintenance](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/maintenance/) [media](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/media/) * [Advanced View](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/prblem-sweep/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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