Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! vs WP Media folders (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 3.0K+). Both are free WordPress plugins. Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! has accumulated 4.5M+ total downloads while WP Media folders has 73K+.
Detailed Comparison
| Metric | Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! | WP Media folders | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rating | 4.6/5 | ◄ | 3.5/5 |
| Total Reviews | 746 | ◄ | 15 |
| Active Installs | 90K+ | ◄ | 3.0K+ |
| Total Downloads | 4.5M+ | ◄ | 73K+ |
| Support Resolution | 50% | N/A | |
| Last Updated | 1 week ago | ◄ | 4 years ago |
| First Released | 2016 | 2017 | |
| Age | 10 years | 9 years | |
| WP Requires | 6.0+ | 3.5.1+ | |
| PHP Requires | 7.4+ | 5.4+ | |
| Business Model | Free | Free | |
| Latest Version | 7.0.6 | 1.1.10 |
Rating Breakdown
Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress!
WP Media folders
Download Trends
Over the past 30 days, Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! averaged approximately 3,744 daily downloads while WP Media folders 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。
WP Media folders Reviews
Brought our site to a crawl – bloated
Joomunited are some of the worst plugins we have used. This plugin brought our site to a crawl and it’s a dedicated server with 6cores RAM and 16gb RAM. We used a query monitor plugin and the wp media
Doesn’t work – should be removed
As stated in the description, this plugin is not supported and should not even be made available. Thanks for wasting my time.
Doesn’t work since 6.3
<!– wp:paragraph –> <p class=””>Wordpress 6.3 makes this plugin not working anymore. It was the only free solution to the problem but dev refuses to maintain it anymore. Garbage.</p> <!– /wp:paragraph
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