Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! vs Media Sweep

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

Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress!

by Jordy Meow

Health A89

Media Sweep

by WPCreatix

Health B82

Active-install trajectory

Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! Media Sweep

Active installs, each indexed to 100 at the start of the window. A line above 100 is growing its install base, below 100 is shrinking.

Metric	Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress!	Media Sweep
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	90K–100K ✓	1K–2K
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0%	+100% ✓
Overall health	A · 89 ✓	B · 82
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100	100/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	91/100 ✓	71/100
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	4.59★ ✓	3.85★
Reviews	765 ✓	10
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	98/100 ✓	92/100
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	8d ago	yesterday ✓
Downloads · 30d	98.8K ✓	2.2K
Category	Media	Media

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

Release activity

Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! Media Sweep

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.