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:
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<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>
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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.

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The Media Hygiene plugin removes unused media from the WordPress library to free up space, reduce clutter, and improve server performance. With features like bulk delete and deep folder scanning, it’s a must-have for finding and deleting unused images and media.
<h3>Introducing Media Hygiene</h3>
Introducing the Media Hygiene plugin – the ideal solution for optimizing your WordPress media library! With this powerful plugin, you can quickly and easily remove all unused images, reducing clutter, and freeing up valuable server space. This plugin is a must-have for anyone looking to delete unused images in WordPress or remove unused images from the media library.
Media Hygiene is fully compatible with major WordPress builders, including plugins like WooCommerce, custom fields and posts plugin, sliders, SEO, and more – making it versatile and convenient for all types of WordPress users. Unique features like “One shot delete” and “One-shot download” allow you to bulk delete media and download all images from the WordPress media library make it easy to keep your media library organized and up-to-date.
Making offsite backups? Reduce the time and cost of disk space with a smaller backup file size.
Say goodbye to a cluttered and disorganized WordPress media library, and hello to a cleaner, more efficient WordPress site! Whether you’re an agency, blogger, photographer, or business owner, Media Hygiene is the perfect tool for keeping your media library in tip-top shape.
Get it now and keep your WordPress site super clean!
<h3>Some use cases for website owners</h3>
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Unable to keep track of unused media files in the media library.
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Uploading the same images in different sizes to figure out optimal size and forgetting which one was actually used.
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Switching out an image in a post with another and can’t find it media library file.
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Updating the logo with a new version and don’t want the old one to be indexed by Google.
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Images included with purchased theme but never deleted after site was launched.
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After a website was redesigned or rebranded, there may a number of old images or media files no longer in use.
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Before migrating to a new hosting provider, cleaning up the media library may make it a smoother and faster migration process.
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Getting a warning from your hosting provider that you are hitting the storage limit, make your backups smaller.
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You have guest posts or contributors who may have left behind a number of images.
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Changing your product listings or discontinuing products in e-commerce sites may mean images are left unused.
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After trying out a theme, deactivation of theme may leave behind media files.
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<h3>How is it Different?</h3>
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<li><a href="https://mediahygiene.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Media Hygiene Pro</a> scans the entire website using a number of different techniques. One way is to “visualize images/media in page source code” to confirm the existence of a media file even when builders/plugins/themes use specialized custom posts to display their widgets on-screen.</li>
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<h3>File Types:</h3>
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<li>Media Hygiene will recognize most if not all major file types stored in the WordPress media library. This includes but not limited to PDF, jpg, png, gif, mp4, mp3, csv, zip, rar, and txt files. We also cover alternative extension spelling such as jpeg.</li>
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<h3>Standard Features:</h3>
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Dashboard – shows list of all unused media by occupied space and by type.
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Notifications – get email notifications when new files have been uploaded and not scanned on a specific schedule (daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, quarterly)
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Site builder compatibility – works with all major site builders such as Elementor (see list below).
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Whitelist – keep files safe from deletion. Perfect for files linked to from off-site sources.
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Filtering – files by name and date.
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Backup – download unused media file individually or by page.
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Delete – remove files individually or by page.
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Scan – scanning process for all media files not linked to any page/post or other theme settings.
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Support – only through WordPress repository.
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<h3>Changelog</h3>
<a href="https://mediahygiene.com/changelog/" rel="nofollow ugc">Check latest here</a>
<h3><a href="https://mediahygiene.com/compatibilities/" rel="nofollow ugc">Compatibility</a></h3>
Please check our website to see a completely list of compatible plugins/themes.
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Gutenberg – Standard
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Elementor Basic – Standard
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Bricks (builder)
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Divi (builder)
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WP Bakery Page Builder (builder)
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Beaver Builder (builder)
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Visual Composer (builder)
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Avada (theme)
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Enfold (theme)
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Flatsome (theme)
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More to come…
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<h3><a href="https://mediahygiene.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro</a> (available now)</h3>
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Customer Support – directly from the plugin – Pro
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Faster scanning through the use of WP-CLI (WordPress command line interface)
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Unique scanning process for multiple page builders with one click
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Advanced Filtering – Pro
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<li>Media Filter by Year</li>
<li>Media Filter by Type (jpg, png, gif, wmv, mp4, etc.)</li>
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One Shot Download (all files)
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One Shot Removal (all files)
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Folder Scan (sub-folder scanning coming soon!)
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Woocommerce
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Custom Post Types
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SEO Plugins
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<li>All in One</li>
<li>Yoast</li>
<li>SEO Press</li>
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Custom Fields Plugins – Pro
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<li>ACF</li>
<li>Pods</li>
<li>Custom Field Suite</li>
<li>Custom Post Suits</li>
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Sliders
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<li>Meta Slider</li>
<li>Slider Revolution</li>
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<h3><a href="https://mediahygiene.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro</a> (coming soon)</h3>
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Custom Fields Plugins – Pro
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<li>Jet Engine (coming soon)</li>
<li>Meta Box (coming soon)</li>
<li>CPT UI (coming soon)</li>
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Remote server backup and restore – Pro (coming soon)
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Scheduled Scans – Pro (coming soon)
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Custom Email Notifications – Pro (coming soon)
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WPML / Weglot / TranslatePress (coming soon)
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Media Hygiene: Remove or Delete Unused Images and More!


Recently I installed this plugin on my two sites, the first one built in DIVI and the second one built in AVADA, this plugin executes flawlessly on both sites and comes up with numerous unused files as a result, those files were going to be deleted, after that, my sites work a little bit smoother. Moreover, the plugin provides adequate statistics and examination to get an idea regarding media. we can move questionable files or media in whitelisted media so they can't be deleted, which is a satisfactory feature. Overall, I love the plugin and highly recommend it.



I have been building websites for a long time and use to a lots of images in site and at the end of project there are a lot of images unused in media library and using server space. I tried many plugins to find unused images and way to delete but none of them are at perfection level. But Media Hygiene did really a great job compare to other plugins and helped me to save my server space, delete unwanted image and latest update to scan the entire media library to find the images as unused is way much faster. I will be using this plugin in many site in coming day. Keep it up, good job.


Must try Plugin to clean unwanted Images


Awesome plugin with awesome customer support. Initially, we used the free plugin and purchased the pro plugin with awesome features. The feature and user experience was just awesome.



If the issues are raised we directly connect with live chat and they will try to resolve them immediately, or else it may take one business day through email support.



It's not enough to put only 5 star rating, if it has 100 rating option, surely will give 100 out of 100. 



Keep rocking guys! Awesome and Best of luck!! 


Awesome and Mind Blowing


I recently tried using a media hygiene tool to help manage a website's vast array of media files. It was a good starting point but had its limitations. For example, it sometimes marked images as unused that were actually still in use. This meant I had to double-check everything manually to ensure no necessary files were mistakenly deleted.



Even though this process took some extra effort, the tool did help me by narrowing down the list of files to check, which was a real-time saver. However, I'm on the lookout for something a bit more reliable for our next clean-up round.


Giving it a 5 but with reservations...


I worked on a lot of Photography websites where images are pretty randomly uploaded. Naming conventions ignored due to rushes and all that comes with running a busy business. The end effect? Massive library of images that are unsearchable in the dashboard, all looking similar and frankly, impossible to archive and delete manually. This is especially true when a website gets updated or redesigned using the content from previous iterations. , and with WordPress creating different sizes of all images - it is quite frankly a nightmare. All solved by this in incredible plugin with just a few clicks. Fantastic work from the Media Hygiene team. Support is outstanding too. Recommended! 


Media cleaning is hard. This makes it easy!

The Media Hygiene plugin removes unused media from the WordPress library to free up space, reduce clutter, and improve server performance.

Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! vs Media Hygiene: Remove or Delete Unused Images and More!