Speeding up manual media cleanup

  • Resolved Gal Baras

    (@galbaras)


    6 days, 16 hours ago

    The main benefit of cleaning up media files is freeing up hosting space, and possibly reducing hosting costs. Since there can be MANY unused images on a site, it would therefore be awesome to be able to sort unused images by size, and remove the largest ones first.

    Another great UI feature would be filters: by name, type, date range and size. This will shorten cleaning by allowing bulk actions.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Author sungraizfaryad

    (@sungraizfaryad)

    4 days, 23 hours ago

    Hi Gal,

    Both are great suggestions and on the roadmap.

    Quick wins (planned for next minor release):

    • Filter unused media by filename, mime type, and upload date range

    Sort + filter by file size is a bigger change because filesize isn’t
    stored in wp_posts — it lives in attachment metadata or only on
    disk. To make it sortable in pagination we need to cache filesize
    during the scan and migrate existing libraries. Targeting a
    follow-up release.

    In the meantime, the CSV export at Dashboard → Export Report
    includes file paths so you can sort externally and target the
    biggest files first.

    Tracking these as feature requests. Thanks for the detailed feedback.

    Kind Regards

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