Ultimate media cleaner
Find used medias from you from the database and/or your upload folder and give the way to delete them the ones "unused"
The facts
- Rating
- 2.3★ from 3
- Active installs
- 200+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 14 Jun 2022
- Added
- Jan 2018
- Requires WP
- 5.5
- Tested up to
- WP 5.8.15
- Requires PHP
- 7.2
- Downloads
- 22,374
Our analysis
AI-assistedUltimate Media Cleaner is a WordPress plugin designed to help you identify and delete unused files from your site. It scans both the database and the wp-upload folder to find files that are not referenced in posts or pages. The plugin uses SQL scripts to check for physical references to files and provides options to delete or ignore files marked as unused.
This plugin may be suitable for users who want to manage their media library by cleaning up files that are no longer needed. However, it is important to note that the detection of unused files may not be 100% accurate, and some files used by other plugins may not be detected.
Best for: This plugin suits WordPress users looking to clean up their media library.
What it does well
- ✓Identifies unused files in your media library
- ✓Scans both database and wp-upload folder
- ✓Provides options to delete or ignore files
Where it falls short
- •Detection of unused files may not be fully accurate
- •Files used by other plugins may not be detected
- •Limited information on features and functionality
Verdict
Ultimate Media Cleaner offers basic functionality for identifying and managing unused files, but its accuracy may be a concern for some users.
From the developer
nicearma's own description of Ultimate media cleaner, lightly tidied.
Ultimate media cleaner give you the power to find “unused files” (please read the next line) in your sites and delete them
Unused files is more “not usage found” with our detection system. You have to know that WP is easy to use, but is a very complex software.
Remember that WP can be used like e-commerce, video share platform, normal blog, etc.
So is impossible to be 100% accurate about the “unused files”, so for this version we changed for “Not usage found”, this phrase is more accurate about what this plugin do
Pro version
We made one Pro version, we added some “nice to have feature”, you can find it at Ultimate media cleaner PRO
Crawler option
Even if we made all possible to try to find reference in the database, there are some files used in ways impossible to detected internally.
The only way is to use one web crawler and to detect the reference in direct in your HTML, JS and CSS code
We work in our own web crawler, you can find it at Ultimate media cleaner Crawler (external and pay service)
We made one Pro version, we added some “nice to have feature”, you can find it at Ultimate media cleaner PRO
How this plugin work
Is important to you to know how this plugin work, so here we go:
The plugin is composed in 5 prat
Find files from database and find files from your folder system part
This two parts are really similar, the unique difference is where the information is coming from.
Files from the database will show you every file and images found in the database (in your database this will be the table Post with values post_type=’attachment’)
And folders, are files found in the wp-upload folder. Keep in mind that some plugin use this folder to add their own files, and this plugin will not detect their usage
- After selecting from where you want to show the WP files
- The plugin will try to find out if the file is used or unused, this is made with some sql script, trying to found some physical reference in post and pages
- Try to find if the file is used in some shortcode (coming soon)
- Found if the crawler system detected the file (pay service)
- Show you the result and give you the opportunity to delete, ignored the “unused files”, if is used, the plugin will not show any option
- You can ignore the file, because you know that this file is used, but the file have the “unused” label
- You can put in the delete list (this will not delete the file)