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WPS Cleaner
Database cleanup feels great until you accidentally delete your entire media library.
HealthyGrowing
63/100
Database cleaning works well but the media deletion feature is unreliable and risks deleting your entire library.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.3★
99 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+16%
Growing
28 → 32 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORnot updated in 12 months
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 · +16% in the last year
28/day a year ago→32/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayWPS Cleaner is a lightweight WordPress database and media cleanup tool that users find simple and easy to use for removing revisions and obsolete data, but it carries a serious caveat: its unused media detection is widely reported as unreliable, flagging actively-used images — including WooCommerce product images and Elementor content — as unused, with real risk of data loss.
What people like
- +Simple, intuitive interface accessible to non-experts×4
- +Effective for cleaning database clutter such as revisions and obsolete data×3
- +Allows downloading media files before deletion as a safety measure
Common complaints
- −Unused media detection is unreliable — flags all or nearly all images as unused, including actively-used ones×4
- −Does not correctly recognize images used by WooCommerce or Elementor, leading to false positives×2
- −Deleting flagged 'unused' images can wipe all site images, causing serious data loss×2
- −UI bug prevents some users from getting past the initial warning notice, making the plugin completely unusable
- −No way to preview exactly what content will be permanently removed before confirming a cleaning operation
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.29★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.30★
- 7%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 33% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-02-152025-04-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 99 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2025-01-28★★★★★Be careful to use this plugintarunsoft1-shot
- 2024-06-21★★★★★Deleted all images from my site.staedeli
- 2024-01-21★★★★★Extension très utilehevea2019
- 2023-01-13★★★★★Useful pluginIrina
- 2022-01-04★★★★★UselessWillCycle
- 2021-10-05★★★★★Worked great!ykruger1
- 2021-09-03★★★★★Doesn't helpnicomollet
- 2021-08-22★★★★★Doesn't work for imagesjfkweb
- 2021-07-20★★★★★every single image in my media library not in use.kruddock
- 2021-06-24★★★★★Excellemtrawny
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to WPS 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.
37
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
38
Prior 7-day baseline
30
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
37
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-2.6%
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.
33%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.94
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
74%
5★ share in analyzed sample
7%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.24 → 4.29★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered