Melapress File Monitor

Awesome plugin

I’m not expecting / warranting an answer, I just want to state for the record (and for other interested parties) that this plugin is very badly coded and has caused me a lot of problems.

First off, it doesn’t purge its Cron jobs and wp_options after being disabled/removed.

Second off, those Cron jobs and wp_options have created an absolute BLOAT on my site. After just a couple of week there were MILLIONS of mfm_directory_runner% spam entries in my wp_options. Also the daily mfm_monitor_file_changes cron job was crashing my php-fpm (resource exhaustion).

If you want to monitor file changes on the site, it’s much better to write a short bash script and run it through a cron job, than doing anything at the WordPress level. This plugin has been a big mistake, and any plugin like it would very likely also be a big mistake.

Melapress is a great plugin but I hate it when plugins doesn’t clean-up their DB table leftover after uninstall.
Add an option in the settings to delete db tables on uninstall.

If you want to uninstall this completely, drop these 6 tables
mfm_events
mfm_events_metadata
mfm_scanned_directories
mfm_scanned_files
mfm_stored_directories
mfm_stored_files

Only just started using it really, but it seems to be doing what we need. Support were very quick in creating a patch for a bug that turned up.

We are using it for more than 2 years now with real great results. One of its kind for such a topic (files monitor). Really recommended.