Media Cleaner: Delete Unused Images & Clean Your Media Library

Content Management Media Library & Upload Management

Media Cleaner is a WordPress plugin for Media Library & Upload Management. It ranks #10 of 257 in that group by active installs and was last updated 3 days ago.

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Slug media-cleaner

90K Active installs As the directory reports it, rounded to a band

4.6 Rating out of 5 From 779 ratings

180 Releases Since 15 May 2016

Nov 2026 Last release 3 days ago

Maintenance check

Is Media Cleaner still maintained?

Yes - by every measure the directory publishes, it is actively maintained.

Updated recently. The last release was 3 days ago.
Tested with current WordPress. Tested up to 7.1.4; most actively maintained plugins are tested on 7.1.
Well rated. 4.6 out of 5 from 779 ratings.

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Standing

More installed than 99.0% of the directory

Ahead of 47,237 of the 47,734 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.

99.0% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count

47,237 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one

496 Plugins ahead of it More active installs, or the same published band

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Details

The record

Everything the directory publishes about this plugin, as it was last read.

Current version: 7.3.6
Requires WordPress: 6.0
Tested up to: 7.1.4
Requires PHP: 8.1
Added to the directory: 15 May 2016
Last updated: 3 November 2026
Contributors: 1
Author: Jordy Meow
Support threads resolved: 2 of 2

Its own tags

clean
images
media
media library
unused images

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