Eli Hanna

CoffeeWP Media Cleanup helps you reclaim disk space and tidy up your WordPress media library without risking data loss. Every destructive action moves files to an internal trash so you can recover anything you did not mean to delete.
A guided three-step wizard walks you through the work:
<ol>
<li>Pre-scan settings — review detected page-builder compatibility, pick which thumbnail sizes WordPress should generate, and choose a batch size that fits your server.</li>
<li>Scan — walk your uploads tree and detect which files are unused, broken, or missing.</li>
<li>Results — see what is unused, what is broken, what is missing, which thumbnails are stale, and run targeted clean actions on selected rows or across the whole result set.</li>
</ol>
Clean actions:
<ul>
<li>Delete unused media (file moves to trash; attachment record soft-deleted).</li>
<li>Delete missing files (clears DB rows whose backing file is gone).</li>
<li>Delete broken-link records (clears attachment posts whose files never existed).</li>
<li>Delete orphan thumbnails (removes derivative files with no attachment parent).</li>
<li>Regenerate missing thumbnails (re-runs WordPress’s image-size pipeline).</li>
<li>Add orphan files to the Media Library (creates attachment records for unattached files).</li>
</ul>
Trash + restore:
A dedicated Trash view lists every file the plugin has moved out. Restore any item with one click, permanently delete individual rows, or empty the trash. Optional auto-delete after N days. Trashed files live under <code>wp-content/uploads/cwpm/trash/</code> and are protected from being overwritten by new uploads (filename collisions are detected and avoided).
Activity log:
Every clean action writes to a daily log file at <code>wp-content/uploads/cwpm/logs/</code>. The Logs view shows each file with size and download link. Optional auto-delete after 30 days.
Designed to be safe:
<ul>
<li>Soft-delete by default — no file is ever permanently removed except via the explicit “Empty trash” or “Permanent delete” controls.</li>
<li>Per-row checkboxes and a typed-confirmation disclaimer modal gate the destructive actions.</li>
</ul>
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin does not connect to any external services. No data leaves your WordPress install.
<h3>Third-Party Libraries</h3>
The plugin bundles these GPL-compatible libraries (LICENSE files shipped alongside each):
<ul>
<li>Color Punch (MIT) — internal CSS / JS UI framework. Shipped at <code>assets/vendor/color-punch/</code>.</li>
<li>Font Awesome Free (CC BY 4.0 icons + SIL OFL 1.1 fonts + MIT code) — icon font. Shipped at <code>assets/vendor/font-awesome/</code>. Upstream: https://fontawesome.com/</li>
<li>Rubik, Outfit, Fira Code fonts (SIL OFL 1.1) — bundled with Color Punch under <code>assets/vendor/color-punch/fonts/</code>.</li>
<li>Catppuccin color palette (MIT) — applied via Color Punch theme variants. Upstream: https://github.com/catppuccin/catppuccin</li>
</ul>
<h3>Data + Storage</h3>
Custom database tables (created on activation, dropped only on uninstall when you enable “Delete data on uninstall”):
<ul>
<li><code>{prefix}_cwpm_scan_results</code> — per-file scan output (rel_path, attachment_id, usage flags, thumbnail status).</li>
<li><code>{prefix}_cwpm_trash</code> — trashed-file ledger (rel_path, original_path, file_name, file_size, trashed_at).</li>
<li><code>{prefix}_cwpm_file_hashes</code> — md5 hashes computed during scan; reserved for future identity-matching features.</li>
</ul>
On-disk storage (under <code>wp-content/uploads/cwpm/</code>):
<ul>
<li><code>wp-content/uploads/cwpm/trash/</code> — files moved by the trash system. Recoverable until you Permanent-Delete or Empty-Trash.</li>
<li><code>wp-content/uploads/cwpm/logs/</code> — daily activity logs (one file per day, e.g. <code>cwpm-2026-05-13.log</code>).</li>
</ul>
Both folders contain <code>.htaccess</code> + <code>index.php</code> stubs to prevent direct web access.
Options + transients: all keys start with <code>cwpm_</code>. Stored in <code>wp_options</code>. Per-user preferences (theme, table density) stored in <code>wp_usermeta</code> with the same prefix.
Custom post type: <code>cwpm-trash</code> — used as a soft-delete state for attachment posts. The attachment record stays in <code>wp_posts</code> but is hidden from the Media Library until restored.

CoffeeWP Media Cleanup – Scan and Remove Unused Media and Orphan Thumbnails

Step-by-step wizard to clean unused media, orphan thumbnails, and broken attachments — safely, with one-click restore.

Ben Byrne

kenjigarland

Xavier Serrano

Media Deduper will find and eliminate duplicate images and attachments from your WordPress media library. After installing, you’ll have a new “Manage Duplicates” option in your Media section.
Before Media Deduper can identify duplicate assets, it will build an index of all the files in your media library, which can take some time. Once that’s done, however, Media Deduper automatically adds new uploads to its index, so you shouldn’t have to generate the index again.
Need faster indexing? <a href="https://www.mediadeduper.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Check out Media Deduper Pro</a>.
Once up and running, Media Deduper provides you with a “Manage Duplicates” page listing all of your duplicate media files. The list makes it easy to see and delete duplicate files: delete one and its twin will disappear from the list because it’s then no longer a duplicate. Easy! By default, the list is sorted by file size, so you can focus on deleting the files that will free up the most space.
Use this plugin at your own risk. The plugin developers are not responsible for any lost data or site issues as a result of using this plugin.
Media Deduper comes with a “Smart Delete” option that prevents a post’s Featured Image from being deleted, even if that image is found to be a duplicate elsewhere on the site.
If a post has a featured image that’s a duplicate file, Smart Delete will re-assign that post’s image to an already-in-use copy of the image before deleting the duplicate so that the post’s appearance is unaffected. This feature only tracks Featured Images, and not images used in galleries, post bodies, shortcodes, meta fields, or anywhere else.
Looking for more features? <a href="https://www.mediadeduper.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Media Deduper Pro</a> includes features for image fields from several popular plugins as well.
Note that duplicate identification is based on the data of the files themselves, not any titles, captions or other metadata you may have provided in the WordPress admin.
Media Deduper can differentiate between 1.) media items that are duplicates because the media files they link to have the same data and 2.) those that actually point to the same data file, which can happen with a plugin like WP Job Manager or Duplicate Post.
As with any plugin that can perform destructive operations on your database and/or files, using Media Deduper can result in permanent data loss if you’re not careful. Back up your data before you try out Media Deduper! Please!
Use this plugin at your own risk. The plugin developers are not responsible for any lost data or site issues as a result of using this plugin.
Need more support? <a href="https://www.mediadeduper.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Media Deduper Pro</a> includes dedicated support from Cornershop Creative.
<h3>Requirements</h3>
Media Deduper requires PHP 7.0 or later.

Media Deduper

Save disk space and bring some order to the chaos of your media library by removing and preventing duplicate files.

CoffeeWP Media Cleanup – Scan and Remove Unused Media and Orphan Thumbnails vs Media Deduper