Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress!
Clean your WordPress! Eliminate unused and broken media files. For a faster, and better website.
4.6(746 reviews)
·90K+ active installs·Updated 1 week agoAs of April 2026, Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! is a WordPress clean plugin with 90K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 746 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.5M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 53% this week. Support resolution rate: 50%. Top alternative: WP-Sweep.
4.6/5746 reviews
90K+active installs
50%resolved
10 yearssince 2016
Overview
Media Cleaner is a powerful plugin that helps you clean up your WordPress media library by deleting unused media entries and files, as well as fixing broken entries. With an internal trash feature, you can preview and confirm changes before permanently deleting anything. Plus, Media Cleaner uses smart analysis to ensure compatibility with specific plugins and themes.
Use it alongside Database Cleaner for the ultimate clean-up experience.
Media Cleaner is like a ninja assassin for your Media Library – it’ll stealthily take out all the unnecessary media and broken entries that are cluttering up the place. Just make sure you have a solid backup plan in place before you let this bad boy loose.
To learn more about compatibility, features, and the Pro version, check out the tutorial…
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Ratings & Reviews
4.6746 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Does The Job
by marx1200·2 days ago
Simple to use
Just Works
by Dr. Melvin Temo·1 week ago
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
by lyjhc·1 week ago
不错，操作简单。
Clean docs, clean media, clean conscience
by map1·2 weeks ago·1 reply
Documentation that goes straight to the point, a trash system that lets you check before deleting anything, and solid compatibility with a wide range of plugins and builders. You can tell the developer actually uses and cares about his product.
Excellent plugin
by Quentin Le Duff·2 weeks ago
Helped me to cleanup my WordPress install easily. Thank you !
I would love to see a GeneratePress/Generateblocks integration to detect images used as CSS background 💖
Download Trends
Today: 1KYesterday: 2KThis week: 17KPeriod total: 1.1M
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v7.0
61.5%
v6.9
15.0%
Other
9.8%
v6.8
7.5%
v6.7
6.2%
Top Alternatives to Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress!
Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
7.0.6 (2026/03/27)
- Fix: Hotfix to resolve a security issue that could allow SSRF attacks through embedded iframes.
Contributors
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