About this plugin
Mediaspy scans your entire WordPress site and shows you which media files are not used anywhere. Review the results, then delete what you don’t need – one by one or all at once.
Why Mediaspy?
Most plugins check only post content. Mediaspy checks everything – page builders, widgets, theme CSS, customizer settings, code snippets, and more – before calling a file unused.
What gets scanned
- Post and page content
- Featured images
- Page builder data (Elementor, Divi, WPBakery, Kadence, and more)
- Theme CSS files
- Widget and Customizer settings
- Code snippet plugins (WPCode, Code Snippets, FluentSnippets)
- Plugin options stored in the database
Features
- Scan your full media library – every image, video, audio file, PDF, archive, and document
- See where each file is used – click any file to see every page, post, or setting referencing it
- Grid and List view – browse results as cards or a full table
- Filter by file type – Images, Videos, Audio, PDFs, Archives, Documents
- Search by filename – find any file instantly
- Sort by size or date – tackle the biggest space wasters first
- Bulk delete – select multiple files and delete with one click
- Download ZIP – back up unused files before deleting
- Import ZIP – restore a previously exported archive back into your library
- Live sync – uploads and deletions made elsewhere reflect instantly, no re-scan needed
- Broken media detection – find content that links to files which no longer exist
- One-click thumbnail regeneration – rebuild missing image sizes whose original still exists
- Ghost attachment cleanup – remove media library records whose file is gone
- Foreign media resolver – import externally-hosted images into your library and rewrite every reference, or remove dead external links (with a Live vs Stored exposure signal)
- Upload Guard – duplicate detection at upload time – filesize prematch then md5 of the original bytes catches duplicates as they are uploaded
- Oversize upload alerts with warn or block mode – separate size limits for images and other files
- Missing alt text attention list with inline editing – flag images without alt text and fix them in place
- Zero performance impact – only runs when you click Scan Now, nothing loads on the front end
Works with
Gutenberg, Elementor, Divi, WPBakery, Kadence Blocks, GenerateBlocks, Spectra,
Beaver Builder, Brizy, Oxygen, Bricks, Cornerstone, Thrive Architect, SiteOrigin,
Avada/Fusion, ACF, WooCommerce, Slider Revolution, MetaSlider, Envira, Soliloquy,
and any builder that stores data in post meta, options, post content, or its own
tables. Mediaspy matches images by URL (including every generated size), by
filename, and by attachment ID, so builders that reference a resized copy or an
ID-only shortcode are detected too.
Privacy and external services
Mediaspy runs entirely on your own site and does not phone home during normal use.
The only outbound request is optional deactivation feedback: if you click
“Submit & Deactivate” in the feedback box shown when deactivating the plugin,
your selected reason, your optional message, your site URL, and your
plugin/WordPress/PHP versions are sent to the developer’s feedback endpoint.
Clicking “Skip & Deactivate” sends nothing. No data is sent unless you
explicitly submit the form.