CodingBunny

CodingBunny Database Cleaner is a straightforward yet powerful WordPress plugin that helps you analyze, filter, and safely remove unnecessary data from your database. Whether it’s orphaned options, leftover post meta, unused comments, transients, or more, the plugin gives you a clear picture of what’s in your database and lets you clean it up with confidence.
The plugin automatically detects the likely origin of each database entry — plugin, theme, or WordPress core — so you always know what you’re dealing with before you delete anything.
<h3>Why use CodingBunny Database Cleaner?</h3>
<ul>
<li>See what’s really in your database: get a clear overview of all entries, with auto-detected source.</li>
<li>Clean safely: every action is protected by nonces, role checks, and confirmation prompts. No accidental deletions.</li>
<li>Improve performance: a leaner database means faster queries, smaller backups, and a snappier site.</li>
<li>Automate cleaning: schedule automatic cleanups for greater peace of mind.</li>
<li>Help the community: if the plugin misidentifies the owner of a database entry, you can contribute a correction to help everyone.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Features</h4>
Tables 
* Optimize, repair, and convert tables to InnoDB 
* Delete unused tables 
* Table source detection
Options 
* Delete unused options 
* Manage and optimize autoloaded options
Posts 
* Delete posts, revisions, auto drafts, trash 
* Set up scheduled automatic cleanup
Post Meta 
* Delete unused and orphaned post meta entries 
* Set up scheduled auto clean
Comments 
* Delete spam, trashed, and orphaned comments, pingbacks and trackbacks 
* Set up scheduled auto clean
Comment Meta 
* Delete unused and orphaned comment meta 
* Set up scheduled auto clean
User Meta 
* Delete unused and orphaned user meta 
* Set up scheduled auto clean
Term Meta 
* Delete unused and orphaned term meta 
* Set up scheduled auto clean
Term Relationship 
* Delete unused and orphaned term relationships 
* Set up scheduled auto clean
Post Types 
* Delete unused post types
Transients 
* Delete unused and expired transients 
* Set up scheduled auto clean
Cron Jobs 
* Delete unused cron jobs 
* Set up scheduled auto clean
Action Scheduler 
* Delete completed, failed, and canceled actions 
* Set up scheduled auto clean
oEmbed Caches 
* Delete all oEmbed caches or only expired ones 
* Set up scheduled auto clean
Full Database Cleanup 
* Clean your entire database in a single action
General Tools 
* Multisite support: clean individual subsites or the entire network 
* Detailed filtering, searching, and sorting in every module 
* Paginated results for efficient handling of large databases 
* Safety confirmations and nonce verification on every action 
* Contribute ownership corrections to help the community

CodingBunny Database Cleaner


This plugin does exactly what it promises and helps keep the WordPress database clean without unnecessary complexity. The interface is straightforward, and the cleanup process is easy to understand even for non-technical users.



One suggestion for improvement: instead of adding a separate DB Cleaner item in the main WordPress admin menu, it would feel more natural and consistent with WordPress conventions to place it under Tools → DB Cleaner.



Overall, a useful plugin for routine database maintenance.


Simple and Useful Database Cleanup Plugin

Keep your WordPress database fast and lean by finding and removing orphaned data left behind by plugins, themes, and WordPress itself.

Jordy Meow

Media Cleaner is a powerful plugin that helps you clean up your WordPress media library by deleting unused media entries and files, as well as fixing broken entries. With an internal trash feature, you can preview and confirm changes before permanently deleting anything. Plus, Media Cleaner uses smart analysis to ensure compatibility with specific plugins and themes.
Use it alongside <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/database-cleaner/" rel="ugc">Database Cleaner</a> for the ultimate clean-up experience.
Media Cleaner is like a ninja assassin for your Media Library – it’ll stealthily take out all the unnecessary media and broken entries that are cluttering up the place. Just make sure you have a solid backup plan in place before you let this bad boy loose.
To learn more about compatibility, features, and the Pro version, check out the <a href="https://meowapps.com/media-cleaner/tutorial/" rel="nofollow ugc">tutorial</a> on the <a href="https://meowapps.com/media-cleaner/" rel="nofollow ugc">official website</a>.
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<h3>COMPATIBILITY</h3>
This plugin is compatible with all media types, including retina and WebP versions. It has been tested on a wide range of WordPress versions, including the latest version with Gutenberg, as well as on various themes with a large community of users. It also supports WooCommerce. For users with more complex plugins for handling website content, the Pro version may be necessary for optimal compatibility. We are constantly working to increase compatibility with other plugins.
<h3>PRO VERSION</h3>
<a href="https://meowapps.com/media-cleaner/" rel="nofollow ugc">Media Cleaner Pro</a> adds extra features to the free version of Media Cleaner:
<ul>
<li>Filesystem Analysis: Scans your physical /uploads directory and matches it against the Media Library.</li>
<li>Extra support for complex plugins, such as ACF, Metabox, Divi Builder, Fusion Builder (Avada), WPBakery Page Builder, Visual Composer, Elementor, Beaver Builder, Brizy Builder, Oxygen Builder, Slider Revolution, Justified Image Grid, Avia Framework, and many more!</li>
<li>Live Site Scan: Analyzes the online version of your website, potentially improving accuracy in some cases.</li>
<li>WP-CLI support: Allows you to run the plugin at a higher speed or automatically with direct server access (via SSH).</li>
</ul>

Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress!

It certainly did help me clean up my media library!

Great plugin!

This plugin works great. I love the ability to trash images, run a broken link check to verify, and restore any images still needed, or permanently delete. I used Screaming Frog to run a broken link check after trashing the unused images with Media Cleaner, and no false positives were found. I was then able to confidentially delete all the unused images. The site's storage was reduced from 7 GB to 2.91 GB - which is a huge help when the hosting plan has a 10GB storage limit. I'm using it on another site today, and will continue to recommend it to clients who have out of control Media Libraries.

Update: I used Media Cleaner on another site and it found 14GB of unused media which took the site storage from 15GB to 1GB.

Totally worked - reduced site storage size from 7 GB to 2.91 GB


Much of my work in my consultancy is to take in new clients and help fix up any mess or configuration issues.



Many websites, particularly e-commerce shops gets a ton of products in and out and after a few years the media library can get pretty massive.



Using this media cleaner plugin has helped me clean up gigabytes of unused media files on many websites.



This helps to make backups much faster, and my customers have an easier time finding the right images. Thank you.


Huge timesaver


It works perfectly. Thank you so much. 


Nice plugin

Are you looking to clean up 85000 images after you removed 50000 posts from a website?
This is the solution, it will just take a while, but it is something that there are no options, :-)

The best solution


This plugin is full of little popups begging you not to give it a bad review if it just happens to not be very good at what it's supposed to do. Well sorry guys, but this is a terrible plugin. It's a nice idea to scan media you're using and media you're not and delete the latter, but the problem is there are so many ways you can be using media that it's just not sensitive to, and so it's a hard to imaging a single site where it won't throw the baby out with the bathwater, with disastrous effects, deleting lots of media that you're using or linking to. For example, it deletes PDFs links via custom fields. It deletes images when they are the background of an element. Of course you need to backup before you use it - and it rightly warns you to do so - but you shouldn't have to assume a plugin will destroy your site and be making plans for when it inevitably does. Backups are meant for emergencies. The work involved in fixing a site afterwards is intense.


They beg you not to give a bad review


A unused media feature is something that has greatly been needed in the WordPress core for a long time now. The unattached is pretty useless and ends up deleted used media throughout the WordPress installation. Jordy and his team have so far been super responsive and we're very impressed in the code of the plugin being WordPress plugin developers ourselves. This is a tool that we're glad to add to our toolkit while building sites for clients. Great work and we're excited to see what new features you bring in the future. 


Filling a much needed gap in WordPress


Helped me to cleanup my WordPress install easily. Thank you !I would love to see a GeneratePress/Generateblocks integration to detect images used as CSS background 💖


Excellent plugin

Clean your WordPress! Eliminate unused and broken media files. For a faster, and better website.

CodingBunny Database Cleaner vs Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress!