David Sword

<h4>Delete thumbnails & resized images from your Media Library</h4>
<ul>
<li>Delete some or all of WordPress’s resized images (thumbnails, medium, and large, plus extra ones Plugins/Themes make secretly)</li>
<li>This can clear thousands of unwanted files from your uploads directory </li>
<li>Useful if you’ve had lots of different theme/plugins over the years, and inadvertently accumulated a vast number of resized images that are no longer used by your site</li>
</ul>
<h4>Take careful note</h4>
<ol>
<li>Deleting is permanent</li>
<li>You can use <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/" rel="ugc">this plugin</a> to regenerate your Media Library after (as WordPress will need the default sizes)</li>
</ol>
<h4>Please Note</h4>
<ul>
<li>🍺 This is a <strong>recently revived and re-written plugin</strong>, the bad reviews were correct for the old versions, but not current version. If you experience any issues, please open a support request, I’m happy to help fix any issues and help plugin grow.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Road Map</h3>
<h4>The current todo list</h4>
<ul>
<li>[ ] Add css animation/color to nag inputs when clicking disabled button</li>
<li>[ ] Add <code>count($this->library)</code> result as ‘exempt’ in main info banner to assure Media Library items are safe</li>
<li>[ ] Add size range filters (ie: delete resized that are within x – y restraints)</li>
<li>[ ] Make <code>View</code> link work off of a Lightbox instead of a new browser tab</li>
<li>[ ] Please add any additional requests into the Support tab.</li>
</ul>


Delete Thumbnails

It does what it promise.

Find and delete thumbnails & resized images from your Media Library

Jordy Meow

<p>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.</p>
<p>Use it alongside <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/database-cleaner/" rel="ugc">Database Cleaner</a> for the ultimate clean-up experience.</p>
<p>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 <strong>solid backup plan</strong> in place before you let this bad boy loose.</p>
<p>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>.</p>
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<h3>COMPATIBILITY</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>PRO VERSION</h3>
<p><a href="https://meowapps.com/media-cleaner/" rel="nofollow ugc">Media Cleaner Pro</a> adds extra features to the free version of Media Cleaner:</p>
<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

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

Delete Thumbnails vs Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress!