Plugin / Media Cleaner

Description

Media Cleaner cleans your Media Library from the media entries (and files) which aren’t used in your website, as well as broken entries. An internal trash allows you to make sure everything works properly before deleting the media entries (and files) permanently. It uses a smart analysis powered by many implementations for specific plugins and themes.

Before using this plugin, make sure you have a proper backup of your install. This step is not optional; it is required. You cannot trust any tools modifying or deleting your files.

For compatibility, Pro version and important information, please read this until the end. Last but not least, it is necessary to read the tutorial. It is available on the official website, here: Media Cleaner.

VERY IMPORTANT

This tool is a knife. Do not use it if you don’t have any backup, or if you don’t understand what it does. This plugin does its best to help you. Learn how to use it and you will get awesome results.

DASHBOARD

The files detected as not used will be listed in a specific dashboard. It will be up to you to delete them. Then, they will be moved to a trash internal to the plugin. After more testing, you can retrieve those files from the trash, or you can delete them permanently.

COMPATIBILITY

It works with any kind of media entries, including their retina and/or WebP versions. It is tested on modern WordPress installs (Gutenberg included) as well as older ones, with various themes and by a community of thousands of users. It does support WooCommerce. As it requires meticulous a lot of work and testing, the Pro version might be required if you are using complex plugins to handle the content of your website. I am constantly increasing the compatibility.

PRO VERSION

The Pro version adds Filesystem Analysis, extra support for complex plugins, Live Site option and WP-CLI support.

With the Filesystem Analysis, Media Cleaner Pro scans your physical /uploads directory, and match it against the Media Library. It also has extra support for complex plugins, such as:

• ACF (+ ACF Widgets)
• Divi Builder
• Fusion Builder (Avada)
• WPBakery Page Builder
• Visual Composer
• Elementor
• Beaver Builder
• Brizy Builder
• Oxygen Builder
• WCFM MarketPlace
• And more (Theme X, ZipList Recipe, UberMenu…)

The Live Site option will analyze the online version of your website, which might enhance the accuracy of the Cleaner in edge-cases.

Last but not least, Media Cleaner Pro has support for WP-CLI. If you have direct access (SSH) to your server, you will be able to run the plugin at a much higher speed or have it ran automatically, if you like.

AGAIN, BE CAREFUL

Better to be safe than sorry. This plugin deletes files! Therefore, backup is not only important, it is necessary. Don’t use this plugin if you are not ready. I can’t help you if you damaged your install.

SPECIAL THANKS

• Mike Meinz, an amazing developer from the US who made a thorough debugging of the whole process, load lot of corrections and optimizations, and added support for more plugins.
• Satoshi Soma, an excellent Japanese developer who helped me when I needed it the most.