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Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress!
A digital vacuum that occasionally eats the furniture.
HealthyGrowing
88/100
The plugin clears clutter effectively but carries a real risk of deleting active images.
Active installs
~158,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 90k+
Rating
4.6★
758 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+69%
Growing fast
816 → 1,378 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +69% in the last year
816/day a year ago→1,378/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayMedia Cleaner reliably identifies and removes orphaned media for many users, but a recurring concern is false positives — flagging actively-used images as unused — which can cause site breakage if deletions are acted on without caution.
What people like
- +Effectively finds and removes large volumes of genuinely orphaned or unused media files, freeing significant disk space.×4
- +Useful after data migrations or on long-running sites with years of accumulated media clutter.×2
- +Pro version offers a compatibility library with fixes for popular plugins that handle media in non-standard ways.
Common complaints
- −Flags actively-used images as unused (false positives), particularly on sites using certain themes or page builders such as BeTheme and Oxygen.×2
- −Acting on the plugin's recommendations without extra caution can break the site; one reviewer had to fully revert after half their site broke.
- −Can flag an unexpectedly high proportion of the media library for deletion, raising credibility concerns about its scan accuracy.×2
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.61★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.60★
- 11%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 758 total
Latest reviews · 360 analyzed
- 2026-05-22★★★★★Really useful plugin!kaiyoma
- 2026-05-22★★★★★Does the work finetserepka
- 2026-05-17★★★★★Doesn't work for megasbas74
- 2026-05-17★★★★★10,619 files, 1.4 GB Eliminated!fifthbeam1-shot
- 2026-05-14★★★★★Works like a charmalexandratalesfromtheroadahead1-shot
- 2026-05-14★★★★★Amazing tool – made my life betterlanxalot
- 2026-05-08★★★★★Reliable, fast, and WP-CLI compatible!SvitloCenter
- 2026-04-28★★★★★Great Pluginrachelle56
- 2026-04-20★★★★★Does not worksdor
- 2026-04-13★★★★★Fabulous!ria_amp
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Media Cleaner
Top Maintenance plugins, ranked by score.For developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
1,414
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
1,502
Prior 7-day baseline
1,452
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
19,107
Mean release-day peak (30d)
2,582
Latest day · 2026-06-03(tail)
-5.9%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
5%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.38
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
85%
5★ share in analyzed sample
11%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
+15%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.62 → 4.61★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered