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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 …

Alex Mills

Regenerate Thumbnails allows you to regenerate all thumbnail sizes for one or more images that have been uploaded to your Media Library.
This is useful for situations such as:
<ul>
<li>A new thumbnail size has been added and you want past uploads to have a thumbnail in that size.</li>
<li>You’ve changed the dimensions of an existing thumbnail size, for example via Settings â Media.</li>
<li>You’ve switched to a new WordPress theme that uses featured images of a different size.</li>
</ul>
It also offers the ability to delete old, unused thumbnails in order to free up server space.
<h4>In Memory of Alex Mills</h4>
In February 2019 Alex Mills, the author of this plugin, <a href="https://alex.blog/2019/02/27/from-alexs-family/" rel="nofollow ugc">passed away</a>. He leaves behind a number of plugins which will be maintained by Automattic and members of the WordPress community. If this plugin is useful to you please consider donating to the Oregon Health and Science University. You can find more information <a href="https://alex.blog/2019/03/13/in-memory-of-alex-donation-link-update/" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.
<h4>Alternatives</h4>
WP-CLI
If you have command line access to your server, I highly recommend using <a href="https://wp-cli.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">WP-CLI</a> instead of this plugin as it’s faster (no HTTP requests overhead) and can be run inside of a <code>screen</code> for those with many thumbnails. For details, see the documentation of its <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/cli/commands/media/regenerate/" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>media regenerate</code> command</a>.
Jetpack’s Photon Module
<a href="https://jetpack.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Jetpack</a> is a plugin by Automattic, makers of WordPress.com. It gives your self-hosted WordPress site some of the functionality that is available to WordPress.com-hosted sites.
<a href="https://jetpack.com/support/photon/" rel="nofollow ugc">The Photon module</a> makes the images on your site be served from WordPress.com’s global content delivery network (CDN) which should speed up the loading of images. Importantly though it can create thumbnails on the fly which means you’ll never need to use this plugin.
I personally use Photon on my own website.
Disclaimer: I work for Automattic but I would recommend Photon even if I didn’t.
<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/regenerate-thumbnails" rel="ugc">WordPress.org forums</a>.
The source code for this plugin is available on <a href="https://github.com/automattic/regenerate-thumbnails" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.

Regenerate Thumbnails

I'm a longtime WP dev and if you need to regenerate thumbnails its the way to go.

I appreciate the fact its free, this is what makes WP great

5 Stars


I can't even remember for how long I've been using this plugin from time to time... Miss you Alex... I'm sure you're smiling from up above 3> 


Thanks, Alex...

Regenerate the thumbnails for one or more of your image uploads. Useful when changing their sizes or your theme.

Fix Media Library vs Regenerate Thumbnails