Nova Media Cleaner – Duplicate Finder, Clean Unused Images & Media Library Optimizer
Nova Media Cleaner is a safety-first media library cleaner and optimizer for WordPress. It finds exact duplicate images, detects unused files sitting in your uploads folder, and repairs media references that point at files that no longer exist, so your Media Library stays small, fast and free of clu
Nova Media Cleaner is a safety-first media library cleaner and optimizer for WordPress. It finds exact duplicate images, detects unused files sitting in your uploads folder, and repairs media references that point at files that no longer exist, so your Media Library stays small, fast and free of clutter.
Nothing is deleted behind your back. Every scan is read-only. Every deletion starts with a side-by-side comparison and a confirmation step. You always see what is about to change before it changes.
What does it do?
- Finds exact duplicate images using cryptographic hash matching, so two files are only called duplicates when they are identical, byte for byte.
- Finds unused media that is not attached to or referenced by anything on your site.
- Repairs broken media references , including the Elementor SVG icons that quietly render blank after a migration or import.
- Protects your content by remapping references from a removed duplicate to the file you keep, so posts and pages do not end up with broken images.
Who is it for?
Site owners, agencies and developers who manage sites that have grown over the years, been migrated between hosts, been rebuilt with a page builder, or collected thousands of uploads that nobody can account for.
Why Nova? (The Migration/Elementor Problem)
Most media cleaners only answer one question: “which files are duplicated or unused?” Nova Media Cleaner also answers the one that hurts after a migration: “which of my pages point at media that is no longer there?”
Here is what happens. When a site is migrated or its media is re-imported, your files often come back with brand-new Media Library IDs, while your pages, theme settings and widgets still point at the old IDs. Elementor draws an uploaded SVG icon from the stored attachment ID alone and ignores the image address saved beside it. The result: icons and images render as empty space, even though the file is sitting right there in your Media Library.
WordPress shows no warning. Clearing caches does nothing, because nothing is cached wrong.
Broken Media References fixes this:
- 01Run the scan. It only reads; nothing is changed.
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