Olivier Bigras

Oli Media Cleaner scans your entire WordPress site to find media files that are no longer in use. It performs a deep analysis across multiple sources to accurately determine which files are safe to remove.
<h4>What Gets Scanned</h4>
<ul>
<li>Post & page content — all post types, Gutenberg blocks, classic editor</li>
<li>Featured images — all post types including WooCommerce product variations</li>
<li>Custom fields (post meta) — any plugin or theme that stores attachment IDs or URLs</li>
<li>ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) — image, file, gallery, repeater, flexible content, group, clone fields, and Options pages</li>
<li>WooCommerce — product galleries, variation images</li>
<li>Elementor — page builder widget data</li>
<li>Theme files — PHP, CSS, JS templates scanned for hardcoded image references</li>
<li>CSS background images — inline styles in post content</li>
<li>Widgets — image, gallery, text, custom HTML widgets</li>
<li>Site identity — site logo, site icon, theme mods</li>
<li>Serialized data — deep scan of complex plugin data structures</li>
</ul>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Batch scanning — processes 50 attachments per batch to avoid timeouts</li>
<li>Whitelist — protect files you want to keep even if unused</li>
<li>Bulk actions — trash, whitelist, restore, or permanently delete multiple files at once</li>
<li>Trash All — one-click batch trash of all unused images with progress bar (handles thousands)</li>
<li>Scheduled auto-cleanup — enable daily, twice daily, or weekly automatic scan and trash via WP-Cron</li>
<li>Progress bar — real-time scanning progress</li>
<li>No external dependencies — uses native WordPress admin styles, no Bootstrap or jQuery UI</li>
<li>Zero custom database tables — stores data in WordPress options</li>
<li>Clean uninstall — removes all plugin data on deletion</li>
</ul>
<h4>How to Use</h4>
<ol>
<li>Go to Oli Media Cleaner under Media in the WordPress admin sidebar</li>
<li>Click Scan for Unused Media</li>
<li>Review the results in the Unused tab</li>
<li>Whitelist any files you want to keep</li>
<li>Trash files you don’t need</li>
<li>Go to the Trash tab to permanently delete or restore files</li>
</ol>

Oli Media Cleaner

Scan and remove unused media files from your WordPress site to free up disk space.

alim511

Before using this plugin, please make sure that you BACKUP ‘upload’ folder. This is the most important step! 
Also do not forget Rescan Images every time you change settings 
 
 
Please note that ‘max_execution_time’ PHP setting should be minimum 90 seconds for the correct script work. 

AMW Clear Upload Folder will compare images entries from the database with filenames in upload directory. 
All files that are missing in the database will be removed from the filesystem.
<h3>HOW TO USE</h3>
<ol>
<li>Install and activate plugin</li>
<li>Go to the ‘Settings’ tab and choose needed settings. Please note everytime you make changes to the settings, 
you need to rescan images on the ‘List of files’ tab</li>
<li>Go to ‘List of folders’ tab under plugin page and choose folders that you DO NOT WANT to clean</li>
<li>After this you can navigate to ‘Main’ tab and click ‘Run cleaner’ button</li>
<li>That’s all plugin will start cleaning files</li>
</ol>
If you think, that you found a bug in our AMW Clear Upload Folder plugin or have any question contact us at alimov.dmitriy.me[at]gmail.com
<h3>DISCLAIMER</h3>
NO WARRANTY, USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK!

AMW Clear Upload Folder

This plugin works exactly as promised, really helpful for my website!

Awesome Plugin!

Removes unused files from the 'uploads' folder

Oli Media Cleaner vs AMW Clear Upload Folder