PRBLEM Sweep

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.

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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.