Media Deduper

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1. ★★★★★ ryanduncan

   4mo ago

   only request i would have is to add a feature that allows mass delete as i have over 1400 duplicate images from an annoying plugin and selecting every item on a page hitting delete for a 150 pages is annoying not that its yours apps fault you help me clean the mess but to hit all and delete once would be epic to be fair but great app thanks guys

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2. ★★★★★ gravnetic

   1.7y ago

   I installed the plugin and was fairly confused by the plugin WP Settings which has only a checkbox for changing the index. I found the actual plugin features under Media. I was again a bit confused because indexing the media is the third tab, but there is no Index my media or whatever on the first tab. I decided that indexing my media is probably a good idea so I did that, but then the big choice: Manually delete duplicates, bulk delete duplicates, or smart delete duplicates. Oh the anxiety this brought on. This one instruction made the plugin work flawless for me. I hope it helps others.I finally got the nerve up to manually delete duplicates, but what I did not realize is you want to leave the image you intend to keep unchecked!Features I’d like to see:An option to turn off Bulk Delete Unused Image, since with many builders and advanced block libraries this is going to result in issues. An option to remove post meta when File for attachment # could not be found.An option to keep my most recent image. Since this is what I usually want to keep. I find that when I take photos I will take several images and almost always I stop when I get the image I want, the last image. I have edited / managed photoshoots for years and this is almost always the case. An explanation on how Smart Bulk Delete Duplicates works.

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3. ★★★★★ nicole2292

   2.5y ago

   I downloaded this plugin to use it to remove duplicate media items that had been accidentally created by WP All Import. In our case there were 2 media items (attachments) which referred to a single file. I just wanted to remove the duplicate attachment post and leave the file and one attachment post. Firstly the index did not find all instances of the issue. Secondly when I used the smart delete on some instances it removed the files and left media items which were no longer pointing to any file on the server so returned a 404 for the missing media file. This is certainly not the expected behaviour so I had to revert to my backup.

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4. ★★★★★ caw67

   2.7y ago

   Praktisch umd doppelte Medien zu vermeiden. Arbetitet super

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5. ★★★★★ axelfunding

   2.8y ago

   They listen and resolve issues without any problems.

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6. ★★★★★ koehlersmichael

   2.9y ago

   For us, the free version is completely sufficient for basic functions. It solved the problem really well that we were multiple admins and often accidentally uploaded content twice. Thanks!

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7. ★★★★★ ngjarman

   3.2y ago

   Ran on a site I know to have hundreds of duplicated images. Indexed 33k images and didn’t find a single one! This topic was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by ngjarman.

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8. ★★★★★ pgazzola

   3.3y ago

   zero support and dev never reply to your help.free one decent paid stay far away

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.5.9 Fixed PHP warnings that could appear on the Debug Info screen if other plugins altered the active_plugins option or the output of the get_plugins() function. Fixed a deprecation from WP Core (“WP_Scripts::localize was ca 1.5.9
2. — Version 1.5.8 Fixed deprecation warnings (“Creation of dynamic property…”) that appeared under PHP 8.0+. Fixed a deprecation from WP Core (“WP_List_Table::__set(): The property is_trash is not declared.”). 1.5.8
3. — Version 1.5.7 Enhancement: instead of warning about Smart Deletion each time a Smart Delete operation is performed, Media Deduper will now only warn before the first operation. Users can now Smart Delete multiple pages’ worth of items 1.5.7
4. — Version 1.5.6 Addressed two issues with the warning message that appears when HTTP basic authentication is detected: the ‘Check Again’ link is no longer broken, and the message now goes away when WP Cron HTTP Auth is properly configur 1.5.6
5. — Version 1.5.5 Addressed a rare fatal error with trying to handle a WP_Error as an array in mdd_basic_auth_check(). 1.5.5
6. — Version 1.5.4 Enhancement: Now MDD tries to identify when a site is behind an http auth login that interfere’s with wp-cron and MDD’s ability to index media. Enhancement: Now only loading MDD scripts and styles on admin pages where th 1.5.4

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2025-11-01 10K+ → 9K+ down after 1 days in tier
2. 2025-10-31 9K+ → 10K+ up after 39 days in tier
3. 2025-09-22 10K+ → 9K+ down after 1 days in tier
4. 2025-09-21 9K+ → 10K+ up after 72 days in tier
5. 2025-07-11 10K+ → 9K+ down after 12 days in tier
6. 2025-06-29 9K+ → 10K+ up after 2 days in tier
7. 2025-06-27 10K+ → 9K+ down after 4 days in tier
8. 2025-06-23 9K+ → 10K+ up after 2 days in tier

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Media Deduper: 9K+ active installs, 3.8★ (44 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/media-deduper