Clean up unused images and other files from your uploads folder.
As of April 2026, Upload Janitor is a WordPress clean plugin with 50 active installations and a 4/5 rating from 4 reviews. It has been downloaded 8.7K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 16 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP-Sweep.
Reclaim disk space and clean up your uploads folder by deleting old uploads you are no longer linking to.
This plugin will identify unused files within your uploads folder, and give you the option of archiving then deleting
some or all of these files.
Before any action is taken, Upload Janitor will automatically make a ‘tar’ archive of all files to be
erased, including their original paths, so you can restore if necessary.
This plugin inspects every file within the uploads folder. For each file, it searches pages or posts that
reference the file. That is, the plugin searches for the part of each file’s path that comes after the path
to the uploads folder, such as 2010/01/my great but forgotten image.jpg.
The path is searched as-is, as well as URL-enco…
| WordPress | 2.6+ requiredTested up to 2.9.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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