How Media Cleaner Pro Silently Deleted WooCommerce Product Images
101 products lost featured images. 46 categories lost thumbnails. Files were gone from disk. The culprit was a media cleanup plugin running in expert mode.
101 products lost featured images. 46 categories lost thumbnails. Files were gone from disk. The culprit was a media cleanup plugin running in expert mode.
Wordfence flagged 7 files. The real infection was 30+ backdoors, a WSO web shell, and malware payloads stored inside WordPress database options. Here is the full forensic cleanup.
10 concurrent GraphQL requests ramped from 600ms to 3.4s. Here is the full debugging story: what I checked, what fooled me, and where the bottleneck actually was.
Using --exclude='cache/' in your rsync command? That pattern matches at every directory level and silently deletes plugin source code. Here's what happened during a real migration, why it…
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