Scott Werner

By default, WordPress links images to themselves. A user sees that the image is a link, clicks it and they are then taken to a page of just the image. Then they click ‘back’ in their browser or move on to another site.
You could manually remove the link, but that is a pain. Plus, when handing sites over to clients they shouldn’t have to remember to remove it to have a great functioning site.

No Image Link

Defaults the Image Link option to 'none' when adding a picture to a page or post.

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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.

No Image Link vs Media Hygiene: Remove or Delete Unused Images and More!