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Clean Unused Medias

Description

Clean Unused Medias, another simple way to delete the medias you don’t need anymore.

List the medias you don’t used anymore.

Works with post, page, custom post type, and ACF (Advanced Custom Fields).

Filters available :

  • The media used as site favicon
  • The medias used as post thumbnail
  • The medias uploaded in a post (and so related to it)
  • The medias used in ACF fields (image and file)
  • The medias’ URL inserted or used in a post content
  • The medias’ URL inserted or used in wp_postmeta
  • The medias’ URL inserted or used in wp_usermeta
  • The medias’ URL inserted or used in wp_options

Page dedicated to this plugin : https://xuxu.fr/2016/09/28/supprimer-les-fichiers-non-utilises-sous-wordpress/

You can contact me on :

  • My blog: https://xuxu.fr/contact
  • My Twitter account: https://twitter.com/xuxu

You can donate here ^_^ : http://goo.gl/SORljr

Screenshots

  • Dashboard
  • This media is used in the post content
  • This media is used as a featured image / post thumbnail
  • This media is used anywhere
  • You can check their status in the media list
  • And know if the media is used somewhere

Installation

  1. Extract and upload the directory clean-unused-medias to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  3. Go to Medias -> Clean Unused Medias menu.
  4. Enjoy.

FAQ

Why a crawler ?

Because the feature to check if a media url is used in a post content take a very long time. So caching those medias is the best way to keep the interface fast and furious.

Reviews

January 2, 2023
When trying to clean with one of my projects: Logo was deleted while I set it on Customizer Not working with the latest ACF Pro (I tried version 6.0.6), all image fields have gone.
December 10, 2021
Out of my 137 medias 45 were unused. 33% of space that could be freed up. Thanks for your good work
September 3, 2021
Used on a website with 800 medias. The scanner is a little slow, 30 minutes to scan the medias. It managed to find medias even in Elementor data. In some cases, the “check again” found the media when the scanner didn’t find it. Thanks a lot for this plugin.
Read all 5 reviews

Contributors & Developers

“Clean Unused Medias” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Changelog

1.10

  1. Clean and fix scripts
  2. Test up with WordPress 5.7.2

1.09

  1. Test with WordPress 4.7.1 : no problem o/

1.08

  1. Fix log where the media is used
  2. Improve the crawler
  3. Hashtags and popin details available in media library

1.07

  1. Log where the file is used
  2. Display where the media is used
  3. Fix ACF check error

1.06

  1. Add more filters
  2. Improve the crawl and fix some errors
  3. Add some notices

1.05

  1. Site favicon are now not considered as unused
  2. Improve the crawler : search now in wp_options, wp_postmeta and wp_usermeta

1.04

  1. Check if the media ID is used in the content with the native WordPress shortcode [gallery]
  2. Minor user interface changes
  3. Add plugin icon 🙂

1.03

  1. Add progress bar
  2. Refresh results after deleting all medias
  3. Pause and resume the crawler
  4. Filter the results with keyword
  5. Resume the crawl if new medias were uploaded

1.02

  1. Make it really Translate ready! :p

1.01

  1. Fix security issues
  2. Translate ready!
  3. Add French translation
  4. Add WordPress notices
  5. Minor changes

1.00

Welcome!