index images in use as unused images

  • Unfortunatly the plugin indexes images in the tab “Unreferenced Unused Images” that are in use in my website.

    This image for example is indexed as unused whereas it’s in use :
    femme-thumb-deuter-aircontact-50-10-sl.jpg
    I guess that it’s because of its name contains figures eventhough the figures are not related to the size of the image.

    It seems to me the plugin indexes any image that have a figure in its name compare this figure to the different sizes of the images that are set for the theme in function.php.
    If different it’s indexed as unused.

    Am I right ?
    I would really like an explaination of how this plugin works in order to know how much I can trust it.

    Thanks for the help.
    It’s really needed.

    Fran?ois

    • This topic was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by boucdur.
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  • Tom

    (@ideawrights)

    Similar here. It lists many images as “unreferenced” but when I do a

    SELECT * from wp_postmeta WHERE meta_value LIKE ‘%image-name.jpg%’;

    it turns out they are all there and all have what look to me to be valid postmeta data. I have not looked into it as much as Fran?ois, but as it turns out, most of my images have numbers in them that are not related to the thumbnail size.

    I didn’t pay attention whether that was true for all of them or not, but it has been my experience with most thumbnail “cleanup” plugins that they use really simple regex (non-specific greedy matches) and mistake all sorts of numbers for dimension numbers. I don’t know whether that’s true for this one and whether or not it has anything to do with this issue.

    Has this issue been fixed / analyzed in between?
    I’m using the plugin for the first time on a website with a large number of images (70.000+) and I need to be sure that it doesn’t delete used images.

    Regards,
    Oliver

    Thread Starter boucdur

    (@boucdur)

    I gave up using image clean up at this time. I still don’t trust it enough to use it yet.

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