Your WordPress media, clean and lean.

Media Cleaner finds unused files and broken entries in your Media Library and filesystem, then safely removes them. Works with 90+ plugins and page builders out of the box. Your site deserves a spring cleaning! 🧹

Media Cleaner integrates beautifully with AI Engine. Over MCP, your AI assistant can run a scan, explain why each file was flagged, ignore the false positives and clean up with your approval. Like magic. ✨

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Dual-Scan Technology

Media Library scan finds unused entries. Filesystem scan finds orphaned files. Both together clean your site 100%.

90+ Plugin Integrations

Elementor, Divi, WooCommerce, ACF, Beaver Builder, and dozens more — accurate cleaning across your entire stack.

Safe by Design

Internal trash, reference tracking, and recovery. Review everything before permanent deletion.

Smart Reference Detection

Knows exactly where every file is used — posts, metadata, widgets, page builders, and theme settings.

WP-CLI and Automation

Run scans from the command line for scheduled cleanups and large-scale maintenance.

Trash with Restore

Nothing is gone until you say so. One click puts a file right back.

How Media Cleaner works

Media libraries grow sideways. Images get uploaded for a draft that never shipped, a plugin generates thumbnails nobody asked for, a page builder duplicates the same photo four times. After a few years there is no way to tell by eye which of the 8,000 files in /uploads are still doing something.

Media Cleaner answers that question with two independent scans. The Media Library scan walks every entry in WordPress and asks whether anything still references it: posts, pages, metadata, widgets, theme settings, page-builder layouts. The Filesystem scan works the other way round, reading the actual files on disk and flagging the ones WordPress has no record of at all. Run both and you cover the whole surface, because those two lists rarely overlap.

Nothing is deleted behind your back. Flagged items go to an internal trash first, so you review the list, restore anything that looks wrong, and only then confirm. If a file turns out to be needed after all, it goes back where it was, with its ID intact.

The hard part of this problem is not deleting files, it is knowing what counts as “used”. A photo referenced only inside an Elementor layout, or an ACF field, or a Divi module, is invisible to a naive scan and would be deleted by a careless one. Media Cleaner ships with support for over 90 plugins and page builders, and the Pro version adds the heavier ones: ACF, Metabox, Divi, Avada, WPBakery, Elementor, Beaver Builder, Brizy, Oxygen and Slider Revolution among them.

For large sites there is WP-CLI, so a scan can run over SSH or on a schedule instead of tying up a browser tab. And because Media Cleaner exposes its tools over MCP, an AI assistant can run the scan, explain why a given file was reported, and mark the false positives — while permanent deletion still requires you to say yes.

Back up first. Every honest cleanup tool tells you this, and we mean it: the trash makes mistakes recoverable, but a backup makes them irrelevant.

Free & Pro Versions

Free Version

Media Library Scan

Detect and remove unused media entries like images, PDFs, and other files safely.
Powerful Analysis

Scans your posts, meta, widgets, and more to ensure accurate detection.

Pro Version

Everything from the Free Version
Filesystem Scan

Match files in your uploads directory with your Media Library to find unreferenced items.
Advanced Plugin Support

Handles content from page builders, complex plugins, and custom fields with ease.
Live Site Scan

Analyze your live website for even more precise cleaning.
WP-CLI Support

Speed up operations or automate tasks via direct server access.

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Written by @irestorestuff on WordPress Forums