Description
AssetBroom – Media Cleaner helps you detect and remove unused images, duplicate media files, and unnecessary thumbnails from your WordPress media library.
Over time, WordPress websites accumulate hundreds or thousands of images that are no longer used. These unused files increase backup size, waste storage, and slow down website maintenance.
AssetBroom scans your entire website and identifies unused media files, duplicate images, and generated image sizes safely.
The plugin checks where images are used before marking them unused. This prevents accidental deletion of images used in:
- Posts
- Pages
- Page builders
- Featured images
- WordPress generated image sizes
With AssetBroom you can safely clean your media library, remove unused images, and optimize storage.
Key Features
✔ Detect unused media files
✔ Detect duplicate images in media library
✔ Clean WordPress media library safely
✔ Supports Elementor and page builders
✔ Detect WordPress generated thumbnails
✔ Detect responsive image sizes
✔ Safe move-to-trash workflow
✔ Lightweight and fast scanning
✔ Developer friendly code
Why Clean Your Media Library?
Unused media files can:
• Increase backup size
• Slow down site migrations
• Waste hosting storage
• Make media management difficult
AssetBroom helps you keep your WordPress media library clean and optimized.
Screenshots
AssetBroom scan dashboard
Installation
- Upload the plugin folder to ‘/wp-content/plugins/’
- Activate the plugin
- Open Media Cleaner from the admin menu
- Scan for unused or duplicate images
FAQ
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Will this delete images used in posts?
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No. AssetBroom scans posts, builders and thumbnails before marking media unused.
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Does it detect WordPress image sizes?
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Yes. Images like ‘image-300×300.jpg’, ‘image-1024×1024.jpg’ etc are treated as used.
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Is deletion automatic?
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No. Images are moved to trash manually after review.
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Contributors & Developers
“Assetbroom – Unused Media & Duplicate Image Cleaner” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.0
Initial release