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The new Remote Scan is one of the most powerful additions ever introduced to Advanced Database Cleaner. It combines accuracy, transparency, and user control — helping you identify orphaned items with near-perfect precision while keeping your data completely safe.

1. What Is the Remote Scan?

The Remote Scan is a cloud-based identification system 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 relations based on your own WordPress environment — analyzing your installed plugins, themes, and database structure. It then sends this local context securely to the remote scan, where it’s combined with our continuously updated global knowledge base to achieve the most accurate detection possible. This process allows Advanced Database Cleaner to tell you exactly which items belong to which addons — helping you safely identify orphaned entries before deleting them.

2. Why We Opted for a Remote Database Instead of Packing It with the Plugin

Many users wonder why this relations database isn’t simply included inside the plugin itself. The answer is technical practicality and performance. Our remote relations database is enormous — it already contains over one million verified relations between WordPress items and their originating plugins or themes, and it continues to grow daily. Bundling this data directly inside the plugin would make it extremely heavy, slow down scans, and require frequent updates just to stay current. By hosting it remotely, we can:

• Keep the plugin lightweight and fast.
• Deliver instant accuracy updates without releasing new plugin versions.
• Handle complex lookups in milliseconds through a dedicated, optimized backend.

This architecture ensures both efficiency and reliability, while still giving you the freedom to scan locally if you prefer.

3. How We Build and Maintain the Relations Database (99.99% Accurate)

Our remote relations database is the heart of the system — and its accuracy is what makes Advanced Database Cleaner truly unique. It’s populated and refined continuously using three complementary methods:

1. Automated Parsing and Detection Scripts We run advanced algorithms that analyze all existing plugins and themes from the official WordPress repositories, automatically detecting how they interact with the database.
2. Manual Verification by Our Team Our team manually reviews ambiguous or complex cases to confirm relations and ensure complete reliability.
3. Community Contributions When users manually assign ownership to unknown items inside the plugin and choose to share that data anonymously, their corrections help improve the database for everyone.

Through this multi-layered approach, we’ve achieved 99.99% accuracy — to not say 100% — in detecting which addon owns which database item.

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 data is securely transmitted to our server:

Field	Description	Purpose
website	The domain of your WordPress site	Used only for license activation verification
license	Your license key	To confirm license validity and scan eligibility
items_type	One of: options, transients, tables, cron jobs, postmeta, or usermeta	Defines what type of items you’re scanning
wp_prefix_flag	Your database tables prefix	Helps identify table relations within your setup
installed_addons	List of all historically and currently installed plugins/themes	Provides context so the server can match relations more accurately
prepared_items	Names only (never values) of the items to scan	Compared with our relations database to detect ownership

That’s all — no sensitive data, no option values, no content, and no URLs. We only keep minimal technical logs such as request history to prevent abuse and ensure fair usage (rate limiting). Your actual scan data is never stored or reused beyond that single request.

5. Security, Privacy, and Your Choice

Security and user trust are the foundation of everything we build. Our remote scan servers run under sigmaplugin.com’s own secure infrastructure, and all communications are fully encrypted (HTTPS). We will never perform or permit any operation that could compromise your site’s security. If you prefer not to share any data externally, you can simply select the Local Scan Only option. This mode performs the entire analysis locally on your WordPress installation — it uses only your environment to detect relations, without sending anything to our server. The only trade-off is a slightly lower accuracy compared to the remote scan. We are also fully GDPR compliant:

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

In short: your site remains yours. The Remote Scan simply gives you the extra intelligence to make smarter, safer cleanup decisions.

Conclusion

The Remote Scan combines local context with cloud intelligence to deliver unmatched detection accuracy while respecting your privacy. It’s fast, secure, and transparent — and entirely your choice to use it or stay fully local. With this feature, Advanced Database Cleaner takes another major step toward making WordPress database optimization both smart and safe.