Powerful tool, but use with caution

As a freelance web developer, I’ve used Media Cleaner on several client WordPress sites to help optimize their media libraries. Overall, it’s an extremely useful plugin that can save a ton of storage space and improve site performance.

The scanning algorithm is quite good at detecting truly unused media files. I love how it checks not just posts and pages, but also widget areas, menus, and theme files. The ability to filter results and perform test runs before deleting anything permanently is also great.

However, I do have to caution users to be very careful with this plugin. On one occasion, it flagged some images as unused that were actually dynamically loaded via a custom plugin. Luckily I caught this during the preview stage. So while Media Cleaner is powerful, you need to have a solid understanding of how your WordPress site utilizes media files before bulk deletion!