How teams use StaticQ Media
Real-world walkthroughs of cleanup, optimization, and offload projects. We are seeding this section as the plugin matures — the first illustrative scenario is below, and we are actively looking for users who want to share their numbers.
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A 12,000-image WordPress site after three theme changes
A photography portfolio that has lived on WordPress for nine years, switched themes three times, and accumulated metadata for image sizes that no longer exist. The Media Library reports 12,300 attachments. Disk usage is 41 GB, of which roughly 9 GB is unused thumbnails and orphaned files.
The workflow
- 1 Run the Media Library Scanner — it identifies attachments missing current sizes, attachments with deprecated sizes, and any local/cloud sync gaps.
- 2 Use Batch Fix All to repair metadata first, then regenerate or download missing files in queue mode.
- 3 Run Orphan Detection to find files on disk with no matching attachment record. Quarantine before delete.
- 4 Run the Post Content Scanner to fix any stale URLs in posts that referenced thumbnails that no longer exist.
- 5 Configure R2, then process the queue across overnight cron ticks — no admin pages stalled, no upload-time spikes.
Outcome
After the cleanup pass, every attachment has the current sizes generated, the orphan folder holds the unused files for review, and the Cloudflare R2 bucket mirrors the local uploads directory. Disk usage drops by the size of the orphaned files plus the offloaded portion. New uploads go through the same pipeline automatically.
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