Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! vs Cache Images (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
Quick Verdict
As of April 2026, Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! has a higher user rating (4.6/5 from 746 reviews) and leads in active installations (90K+ vs 1.0K+). Both are free WordPress plugins. Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! has accumulated 4.5M+ total downloads while Cache Images has 52K+.
Detailed Comparison
| Metric | Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! | Cache Images | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rating | 4.6/5 | ◄ | 4/5 |
| Total Reviews | 746 | ◄ | 6 |
| Active Installs | 90K+ | ◄ | 1.0K+ |
| Total Downloads | 4.5M+ | ◄ | 52K+ |
| Support Resolution | 50% | N/A | |
| Last Updated | 1 week ago | ◄ | 2 years ago |
| First Released | 2016 | 2005 | |
| Age | 10 years | 21 years | |
| WP Requires | 6.0+ | 2.8+ | |
| PHP Requires | 7.4+ | false+ | |
| Business Model | Free | Free | |
| Latest Version | 7.0.6 | 3.2.2 |
Rating Breakdown
Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress!
Cache Images
Download Trends
Over the past 30 days, Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! averaged approximately 3,744 daily downloads while Cache Images averaged 6.
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。
Cache Images Reviews
No better than doing it by hand
This plugin doesn’t update the ALT fields of the images from the alt tags, so, basically, it’s exactly the same as just bulk downloading the images from a remote site and bulk uploading them to your l
Fine for tiny sites with a handful of images
When I tried to use this on my blog (which has been running since 2001, and has many thousands of entries), it failed miserably. For many years, I kept images on a different server I run, and linke
The one that really works (till 2019)
The one that really works without messing my HTML, and allowing automatic caching for future posts at the same time. The only thing that I’d like is the ability to change the cached file name (like ca
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