Find & Remove Unused Images Safely

Yes. It's compatibility-aware: you choose whether to include WooCommerce, Elementor, Gutenberg, and ACF, and it only counts the sources you enable, with exclusions designed to avoid false "used" results.

Yes. Removals go to the ThumbPress trash first rather than being permanently deleted, so nothing is lost immediately and you can review before clearing anything for good.

Absolutely. Each trashed image is tagged with where it came from, so restoring it sends it straight back to its original list.

A content scan cannot see a path hard-coded into a template file or a stylesheet, so those images can show up as unused. That is exactly why removals go to the trash first - skim the list before you clear it.

Usually because the source it lives in was not enabled for the scan, or it is stored somewhere the scan cannot read - a hard-coded template path, an external cache, or a plugin that keeps its own table. Enable the relevant compatibility sources and re-run.

Once a quarter is plenty for most sites, or after a big content cleanup, a theme change, or a bulk import - the moments when large numbers of images tend to become orphaned.

No. By definition nothing on the site links to them, and the trash step means that if the scan was wrong about a particular file you can put it straight back.