Freshet Unused Media

1.1.0

• “Delete selected” is no longer live until you have ticked something. Pressing it with an empty selection used to ask you to confirm a deletion, then report “Deleted 0, skipped 0, failed 0” as a success — two steps that both read as if something had happened. The button now starts disabled and says what to do if you hover it, and lights up the moment a row in that list is ticked.
• The screens explain themselves a great deal less. The Usage box on the Edit Media screen has lost five of its six paragraphs: each of them restated the badge sitting directly above it (“Not scanned yet.” under Not scanned, “No references found anywhere.” under Unused). What is left is the one paragraph that names the other library entry holding a shared file, because it carries the only link to it. The Scan tab has lost everything below the scan button — the list of the places a scan looks, the line about ambiguity counting as used, the two reasons to run it again — and the In trash section is down from a lead and three points to the one sentence you could not have read off the screen. Nothing about what the plugin detects, judges or deletes has changed; the caveat about files uploaded in the last 24 hours now lives only on the Unused tab, which is the screen you are on when you go hunting for one.
• The delete confirmations count in the right unit, and now have a singular. They said “attachments” for a figure that has always counted files, and a list filtered down to one file asked “Delete all 1 unused files matching the current filter?”.

1.0.10

• Media → Usage puts the scan button where the scan is. The Scan tab now reads figures, when the last scan finished, then the button — the three paragraphs explaining what the scan looks at have moved below it, where they are still there to read and no longer sit between you and the thing you came to press.
• A rule now separates the unused files from the ones in the trash, so the In trash section reads as the different set it is rather than as more of the list above it.

1.0.9

• Less explaining, more screen. Media → Usage has lost the paragraphs that described what the lists already show: the intro above Used files, the note list above Unused files, and the two paragraphs around the Space figures. What is left is the heading, the figures and the files.
• The file lists now look like the Media Library. Thumbnail on the left with the title beside it and the filename under the title — the same arrangement WordPress uses on Media → Library, instead of the filename dropping to a line of its own below the thumbnail.
• “Delete all unused” is a filled red button rather than red text, so it can be found on the heading row without reading for it.

1.0.8

• Scans now show how far along they are and how long is left. While a scan runs, the bar under Media → Usage says how many attachments it has done out of how many, how long it has been scanning, roughly how much of it is left, and which check the time is going into — “checking post content”, “checking custom fields”. A scan of a big library no longer looks like a screen that has stopped responding.
• The estimate counts only the time the scan actually spent. Stopping a scan and resuming it tomorrow does not make it claim a week’s work: the hours nobody was scanning are not in the figure.
• A finished scan says what it cost — how long it took, and how the time was split across the checks (“post content 41%, custom fields 33%, …”). It stays on the screen after the scan, which is where the question is actually asked: before starting the next one.
• The plugin’s header strip on Media → Usage now sits flush at the top of the screen and runs its full width, instead of starting a short way in with a gap above it.

1.0.7

• The listing, not the scanner. Nothing about how the plugin scans or deletes has changed since 1.0.6. This release carries the wordpress.org listing: a readme that says what the plugin does in the words people search for — find unused media and unused images, clean up the media library — with three new FAQ entries on deleting unused images, on why bulk-deleting “unattached” files is unsafe, and on how this differs from the Unattached filter; five real screenshots of the Scan tab, the Unused tab, the Usage column and the Usage box; and a Playground blueprint so the plugin can be tried in the browser from the listing.

1.0.6

• Files whose every library entry is in the trash are listed in their own “In trash” section under the unused list, with their own count and their own checkboxes. Trashing an entry removes no file, so a binned file a page still shows is held back there rather than offered, and one the scan has not reached is shown as not scanned; erasing one from this section is the permanent half of the media trash. The unused list, its count and its delete pool are the library’s and do not move.
• The plugin no longer registers its own translation loader — WordPress loads wordpress.org language packs itself.