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.

wowpress.host

Fix Media Library fixes inconsistency between wp-content/uploads folder and 
database. 
Fixes corrupted Media Library database records. 
Designed to run smoothly against huge Media Libraries containing hundreds of thousands of images.
Useful when:
<ul>
<li>Really old database is used and there are a lot of problems with Media Library found</li>
<li>New thumbnail sizes are registered</li>
<li>Some thumbnail sizes are not used anymore (theme change, upgrade), but image files are still exists</li>
<li>There are Media Library entries present pointing to image files that don’t exist anymore</li>
<li>Some entries in Media Library are not displayed, while image files are present (_wp_attachment_metadata meta field corrupted)</li>
<li>There are a lot of images in wp-content/uploads folder that are no longer used</li>
<li>There are duplicate attachments pointing to the same image file</li>
<li>Images are used by website, but you can’t find them in Media Library</li>
<li>You want to update attachments GUID fields containing old/staging urls</li>
<li>Detects major database corruptions affecting media library functionality</li>
</ul>
At <a href="https://wowpress.host/" rel="nofollow ugc">WowPress.host</a> company we regularly migrate very old databases and clean it up to make sure website using it is running smoothly. Those databases have all different kinds of inconsistencies collected during years or even decades of usage, and Media Library is the most common problematic piece of data here. 
That plugin helps to solve most common problems related to Media Library data.
We use a lot of open-source tools in our work, and therefore decided publish our own tools so that those can be used by the community too.
<h4>Need Help? Found A Bug? Want To Contribute Code?</h4>
Support for this plugin is provided via the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wow-media-library-fix" rel="ugc">WordPress.org forums</a>.
The source code for this plugin is available on <a href="https://github.com/wowpress-host/wow-media-library-fix" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.
Paid support at <a href="https://wowpress.host/professional-services/" rel="nofollow ugc">WowPress.host</a>.

Fix Media Library

This plugin is legitimate.  Works perfectly.  Of course, with everything you do in WP related to the database and files; you should ALWAYS pull your own backups.  However, I had no need to use them.  It worked the first time and did a miracle for a client's site I was working on.

Amazing. Flawless.

Fix Media Library inconsistency between database and wp-content/uploads folder contents. Unused image files, broken media library entries, missing att …

Media Deduper vs Fix Media Library