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.

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