Title: Era Media Usage Finder
Author: badea
Published: <strong>June 12, 2026</strong>
Last modified: June 12, 2026

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# Era Media Usage Finder

 By [badea](https://profiles.wordpress.org/badea/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/era-media-usage-finder.1.0.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/era-media-usage-finder/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/era-media-usage-finder/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/era-media-usage-finder/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/era-media-usage-finder/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/era-media-usage-finder/)

## Description

Era Media Usage Finder helps site owners inspect media files before deleting, replacing,
or archiving them.

The plugin adds a focused admin screen under Tools where you can search media items,
scan individual files, scan selected files, or find files that appear to be unused.

#### Features

 * Search Media Library items by title, filename, caption, or alt text.
 * Filter by images, PDFs, video, audio, or all media types.
 * Choose scan scope: content, featured images, metadata, and site identity settings.
 * Detect usage in post and page content.
 * Detect featured image references.
 * Detect references inside post metadata and common custom field data.
 * Detect site icon and custom logo usage.
 * Show edit links for referenced content.
 * Find likely unused media in controlled AJAX batches.
 * Export scanned results to CSV from the browser.
 * Local-only scanning with no external services.

## Screenshots

[⌊Era Media Usage Finder dashboard with search, metrics, scan scope, and media list.⌉⌊
Era Media Usage Finder dashboard with search, metrics, scan scope, and media list
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Era Media Usage Finder dashboard with search, metrics, scan scope, and media list.

[⌊Usage details showing where a media item is referenced.⌉⌊Usage details showing
where a media item is referenced.⌉[

Usage details showing where a media item is referenced.

[⌊Likely unused media scan results.⌉⌊Likely unused media scan results.⌉[

Likely unused media scan results.

## Installation

 1. Upload the `era-media-usage-finder` folder to `/wp-content/plugins/`.
 2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins screen in WordPress.
 3. Go to Tools > Era Media Usage Finder.
 4. Load media, then scan individual items or selected items.

## FAQ

### Does this plugin delete media files?

No. Era Media Usage Finder is a reporting tool only. It does not delete files or
change content.

### Why does the plugin say “likely unused”?

WordPress sites can reference media in many places, including page builders, shortcodes,
custom tables, theme options, and external systems. The plugin scans common WordPress
locations and reports files with no detected references as likely unused rather 
than guaranteed unused.

### Does it send media URLs to an external service?

No. All scanning runs inside your WordPress admin area and uses your site’s local
database.

### Can it detect featured images?

Yes. It detects `_thumbnail_id` references and labels them as featured image usage.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Era Media Usage Finder” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ badea ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/badea/)

[Translate “Era Media Usage Finder” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/era-media-usage-finder)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/era-media-usage-finder/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/era-media-usage-finder/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/era-media-usage-finder/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/era-media-usage-finder/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.0**
 *  Last updated **19 hours ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.8 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **7.0**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 * Tags
 * [admin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[images](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/images/)
   [media cleaner](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/media-cleaner/)[media library](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/media-library/)
   [unused media](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/unused-media/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/era-media-usage-finder/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ badea ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/badea/)

## Support

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