Cleanup Orphan Images

Cleanup Orphan Images helps maintain a clean WordPress uploads folder by identifying and removing orphan files — physical media files that exist on your server but are not registered in the WordPress Media Library database.

These orphan files may have been left behind from:

• Failed or interrupted uploads
• Plugin operations or migrations
• FTP/SFTP uploads not registered in WordPress
• Database restores or imports

Features

• Scans uploads directory for orphan media files
• Supports images: JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, BMP, TIFF, SVG, ICO
• Supports documents: PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, ODT, ODS, ODP, TXT, RTF, CSV
• Supports audio: MP3, WAV, OGG, FLAC, AAC, M4A, WMA
• Supports video: MP4, MOV, AVI, WMV, MKV, WebM, FLV, M4V, MPEG, MPG
• Supports archives: ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, GZ
• Safe manual selection before deletion
• Warns when orphan count exceeds server’s max_input_vars limit (typically 1000)
• Optimized O(1) performance with hash-based detection

Note

This plugin does NOT manage « unattached » images in the Media Library. WordPress already provides built-in filtering for unattached media. This plugin focuses specifically on finding physical files that WordPress doesn’t know about at all.