Mediawell

Media libraries fill up: images uploaded twice, files nothing uses any more, leftovers from deleted media, and items whose file is gone. Cleaning up by hand is risky, because it is hard to know where a file is used. Mediawell finds all of these, shows exactly where each file is used, and cleans up in a way that can always be undone.

What it finds

• Unused media: items that no post, page, product, widget, menu, setting or custom field uses, and whose file name appears nowhere in the database.
• Possibly used: items with no known use whose file name still appears somewhere, for example in a page builder layout or another plugin’s field. Each place is listed.
• Duplicates: files uploaded more than once (identical files), and pictures that look the same but are different files, for example resized or saved again.
• Unregistered files: files in the year and month upload folders that no Media Library item owns.
• Missing files: Media Library items whose file is no longer on the server.

Where it looks

• Image, gallery, cover, media and text, file, video and audio blocks, the image class WordPress adds, gallery shortcodes, and any address of a file in the uploads folder in any size, in the content of every post type and status.
• Featured images, WooCommerce product galleries and category images.
• Advanced Custom Fields image, file and gallery fields, on posts, terms and options pages, including repeaters.
• The site icon and logo, the theme’s logo, header and background images, and media, text, HTML and block widgets.
• Everything else, as a safety net: post content and custom fields, settings, term and user fields and comments are searched for each file’s name, so page builders and other plugins are covered too.

Safe clean-up

• Quarantine first. Files are moved to a protected folder and hidden from the Media Library. Nothing is deleted until you choose “Delete permanently”, or after a number of days you set.