Auto Delete Unattached Media vs Media Cleaner: Delete Unused Images & Clean Your M

Head-to-head on the signals that matter, from the public WordPress.org data.

Media Cleaner: Delete Unused Images & Clean Your M is the safest pick: health A · 89 against 43 for Auto Delete Unattached Media, led by lower removal risk.

Auto Delete Unattached Media

by Wong Siong Kiat

Health D43

Media Cleaner: Delete Unused Images & Clean Your M

by Jordy Meow

Health A89

Active-install trajectory

Auto Delete Unattached Media moved down one install band, 30+ to 20+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	Auto Delete Unattached Media	Media Cleaner: Delete Unused Images & Clean Your M
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	20–30	90K–100K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	-33%	Stable ✓
Overall health	D · 43	A · 89 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	69/100	91/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	3.8★	4.6★ ✓
Reviews	2	779 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	43/100	98/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Elevated	Low ✓
Last updated	4.8y ago	3d ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	48	222.7K ✓
Download momentum, last 30d vs prior 30d Dips that follow a release spike are normal: wp.org counts every update as a download, so the weeks after a release run lower.	0%	+40%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.4%	1.7% ✓
Category	Media	Media

✓ marks the stronger plugin on each row. Rows where they're level show no marker.

Release activity

Auto Delete Unattached MediaMedia Cleaner: Delete Unused Images & Clean Your M

7-day average daily downloads. Downloads spike for about a week after each release as the install base re-downloads, so read this as release cadence, not growth.