SJF Cleaner is a free all-in-one cleanup tool for WordPress administrators.
It helps you find typical technical leftovers in a WordPress installation and remove them in a controlled way. The plugin focuses on transparency: it shows what was found first, then lets you decide what should be deleted.
No cleanup action runs automatically in the background. Always create a full backup of files and database before deleting files or database entries.
Main features
- Plugin leftovers: list inactive plugin directories with file count, size and directory date.
- Database cleanup: remove revisions, auto-drafts, trashed posts, spam comments, orphaned meta data and expired transients.
- Media duplicates: find exact duplicate media files using MD5 hash comparison of the original file.
- Unused media: find media files not attached to posts and not referenced in content, featured images or post meta.
- Draft media: find media files attached to old unpublished draft content.
- Large files: list oversized images, videos and other uploads based on configurable thresholds.
- Themes: list installed themes and protect the active theme and parent theme from deletion.
- Transients: group transients by source prefix and show count, size and expired entries.
- Broken attachments: find media library entries whose file no longer exists on the server.
- URL checker: check links in published posts and pages for HTTP availability.
Free version
The free version is designed for manual WordPress maintenance. It helps you inspect cleanup candidates and run selected cleanup actions.
For advanced automation, extended deletion workflows, unlimited URL cleanup, statistics, Multisite support and license management, SJF Cleaner Pro is available separately from SJF.solutions.
Security
- All actions require administrator permission (
manage_options). - Cleanup requests are nonce-protected.
- Active plugins are protected from deletion.
- The active theme and parent theme are protected.
- No automatic cleanup runs without user action.
- User input is sanitized before processing.