Warning!!! Major fail: deletes Feature Image of my posts!!!

Just tried this plugin, it found a large number of unused images. No surprise. Some images are totally unused (uploaded but not included in a post), not all sizes are used, and originals that have been edited, and as such are not used.

However after telling it to “delete unused images” it deleted a large number of images that are in use! Specifically the Feature Images of all my posts were gone. I don’t use the feature image elsewhere in the blog post, only as feature image. And all of them are marked “unused”.

This is of course a major bug – I was so happy that I happened to have a complete copy of all images elsewhere – saved me hunting them down and reuploading them to the server one by one. And it’s a total showstopper.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/image-cleanup/