The Remote Scan in Advanced Database Cleaner: Precision Meets Security

The new Remote Scan is one of the most powerful additions ever introduced to Advanced Database Cleaner Premium that works alongside the local scan to let you analyze your database remotely using secure cloud infrastructure. It helps identify orphaned data with exceptional precision, without overloading your website’s resources.

1. What Is the Remote Scan?

The Remote Scan is a cloud-based detection feature that analyzes your WordPress database items - such as options, transients, tables, cron jobs, postmeta, and usermeta - to determine which plugin or theme created them.

When you start a remote scan, the plugin first performs a local scan that detects potential relations based on your own WordPress environment - analyzing your installed plugins, themes, and database structure.

Then, this local context is securely sent to the remote scan process, where it’s combined with our continuously updated online knowledge base to produce a far more accurate result.

The local scan alone can provide partial insights, but the remote scan offers dramatically higher accuracy thanks to our large, intelligently maintained relations database.

It allows Advanced Database Cleaner Premium to tell you exactly which items belong to which plugins/themes - helping you safely detect orphaned or unnecessary entries before cleaning them.

2. Why We Use a Remote Database Instead of Bundling this Database Inside the Plugin

Many users wonder why this relations database isn’t simply included within the plugin itself. The answer lies in efficiency, scalability, and real-time accuracy.

Our remote relations database is massive - it already contains over one million verified relations between WordPress data items and their originating plugins or themes, and it continues to grow every day.

Bundling such a dataset inside the plugin would make it extremely heavy, slow to scan, and difficult to update frequently.

By keeping it on a dedicated remote server, we can:

• Keep Advanced Database Cleaner Premium lightweight and fast.
• Provide real-time updates without requiring plugin releases.
• Perform complex detection processes efficiently through an optimized backend infrastructure.

This design ensures maximum performance, ongoing improvements, and an always-fresh accuracy level - while still giving you the freedom to use a local-only mode if preferred.

3. How We Build and Maintain the Relations Database

Our remote relations database is the core engine that powers the remote scan’s intelligence and precision.

It is continuously updated and refined through three complementary data sources:

1. Automated Detection Processes

   We use proprietary algorithms and internal analysis routines that continuously study known WordPress plugins and themes to understand how they interact with the database.

2. Manual Verification by Our Team

   Our experts regularly review and confirm relations to maintain reliability, especially in cases where automation cannot determine ownership with absolute certainty.

3. Community Contributions

   When users manually assign ownership to unknown items within the plugin and choose to share their corrections anonymously, these verified relations are manually double checked by our team and then added to improve the database for everyone.

Through this multi-layered approach, we’ve achieved 100% accuracy, in determining which plugin or theme is responsible for a specific database record, such as an option, a postmeta key, or a custom table entry.

4. What Data Is Sent to Our Server and Why

Transparency is essential to us. When you request a remote scan, the following non-sensitive information is securely sent to our server:

That’s all - no option values, no post contents, no URLs, and no sensitive information are ever sent.

We only keep minimal technical logs such as request history to prevent abuse and ensure fair use (rate limiting).

Your actual scan data is never stored or reused beyond that specific request.

Example of Data Sent

Here’s a simplified example of the kind of JSON data sent to our remote server when requesting a scan for some options:

{
  "website": "example.com",
  "license": "XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX",
  "items_type": "options",
  "wp_prefix_flag": true,
  "installed_addons": [
    "elementor",
    "woocommerce",
    "wpforms"
  ],
  "prepared_items": [
    "elementor_version",
    "woocommerce_currency",
    "wpforms_tasks_meta"
  ]
}

This data is used solely to detect which of your items belong to known plugins or themes and to identify potential orphaned data.

The process is fully automated, secure, and designed to protect your privacy.

5. Security, Privacy, and Your Choice

Security and user trust are the foundation of everything we build.

All remote scans are processed through sigmaplugin.com’s own secure infrastructure, and every request is fully encrypted (HTTPS).

We will never perform or authorize any action that could compromise your site’s integrity.

If you prefer not to send any data externally, you can simply select the Local Scan Only option.

This mode performs the entire analysis within your own WordPress installation - using only your local environment to detect relations - without any communication with our server.

While functional, the Local Scan cannot reach the same level of accuracy as the Remote Scan, since it lacks access to our constantly updated relations database of over one million entries.

We are also fully GDPR compliant:

• You may request deletion of any shared corrections at any time.
• No personally identifiable data is ever stored or processed.

In short: your website data remains fully under your control. The Remote Scan simply adds intelligence and context, enabling safer and more confident database cleaning.

Conclusion

The Remote Scan in Advanced Database Cleaner Premium combines local context with cloud-based intelligence to deliver unmatched detection accuracy while maintaining strict privacy standards.

It’s secure, transparent, and entirely your choice to use it or remain local.

With this innovation, Advanced Database Cleaner Premium continues to redefine safe and smart WordPress database optimization.