Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! vs Archivarix External Images Importer (2026)
Detailed side-by-side comparison of two WordPress plugins, based on real-time data from WordPress.org.
Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress!
90K+ active installs
Free
Archivarix External Images Importer
2.0K+ active installs
Free
Quick Verdict
As of April 2026, Archivarix External Images Importer has a higher user rating (5/5 from 9 reviews) while Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! leads in active installations (90K+ vs 2.0K+). Both are free WordPress plugins. Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! has accumulated 4.5M+ total downloads while Archivarix External Images Importer has 27K+.
Detailed Comparison
| Metric | Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! | Archivarix External Images Importer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rating | 4.6/5 | ► | 5/5 |
| Total Reviews | 746 | ◄ | 9 |
| Active Installs | 90K+ | ◄ | 2.0K+ |
| Total Downloads | 4.5M+ | ◄ | 27K+ |
| Support Resolution | 50% | N/A | |
| Last Updated | 1 week ago | ◄ | 3 weeks ago |
| First Released | 2016 | 2019 | |
| Age | 10 years | 7 years | |
| WP Requires | 6.0+ | 6.0+ | |
| PHP Requires | 7.4+ | 7.4+ | |
| Business Model | Free | Free | |
| Latest Version | 7.0.6 | 2.0.3 |
Rating Breakdown
Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress!
Archivarix External Images Importer
Download Trends
Over the past 30 days, Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! averaged approximately 3,744 daily downloads while Archivarix External Images Importer averaged 37.
Recent Reviews
Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! Reviews
Does The Job
Simple to use
Just Works
Stunnning plugin that hardly has any false positives. It was great to use. Thanks This topic was modified 6 days, 23 hours ago by Dr. Melvin Temo.
非常好用
不错，操作简单。
Archivarix External Images Importer Reviews
Works with Gutenberg
Works great! I imported several posts into a site running WordPress 5.9.3 with Gutenberg and the Archivarix External Images Importer plugin imported the external images without any issues. I’ve tested
Request function
This is the best WP image capture plugin I have ever used! But I hope to add a feature to automatically check whether there is an external image every time an article is updated, and if there is one,
Worked well for me
I created a site and bulk scraped articles with images from other sites. But my scraper could only scrape the page html, not import the image itself into wordpress. So I used this plugin. The scrapi
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