Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! vs File Upload Types by WPForms (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
File Upload Types by WPForms
30K+ 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 30K+). Both are free WordPress plugins. Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! has accumulated 4.5M+ total downloads while File Upload Types by WPForms has 243K+.
Detailed Comparison
| Metric | Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! | File Upload Types by WPForms | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rating | 4.6/5 | ◄ | 4/5 |
| Total Reviews | 746 | ◄ | 20 |
| Active Installs | 90K+ | ◄ | 30K+ |
| Total Downloads | 4.5M+ | ◄ | 243K+ |
| Support Resolution | 50% | N/A | |
| Last Updated | 1 week ago | ◄ | 1 year ago |
| First Released | 2016 | 2020 | |
| Age | 10 years | 6 years | |
| WP Requires | 6.0+ | 5.5+ | |
| PHP Requires | 7.4+ | 7.0+ | |
| Business Model | Free | Free | |
| Latest Version | 7.0.6 | 1.5.0 |
Rating Breakdown
Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress!
File Upload Types by WPForms
Download Trends
Over the past 30 days, Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! averaged approximately 3,744 daily downloads while File Upload Types by WPForms averaged 81.
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。
File Upload Types by WPForms Reviews
Caused fatal errors in parts of admin
After installing this plugin to allow SVG uploads, it caused a critical error on my site. The error log shows a fatal PHP error: “Uncaught ValueError: Path cannot be empty” coming from the plugin’s Sa
Does exactly what it says on the tin
Great plugin. The type I needed wasn’t in the list that could be enabled by default, so I dragged in my m4a file to the ‘add custom file type’ box, and it made the magic happen 🙂 Great plugin. M
Works Great!
This plug-in just saved me from disaster. I needed to upload an .msi file to my WordPress site just before leaving on a trip, and at the last minute I discovered that WordPress didn’t allow that file
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