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Fix Media Library

by wowpress.host · Media

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Fix Media Library inconsistency between database and wp-content/uploads folder contents. Unused image files, broken media library entries, missing att …

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
51 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 92/100
Support 70/100

51 health vs 59 average across 2,206 Media plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 7+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.0.27, well behind 6.8.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

47 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 1/100
WP compatibility 11/100
Rating quality 88/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2810 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,424 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+70% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

165

now · peak 271

16730d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Fix Media Library · #5334 you Regenerate Thumbnail · #64 Force Regenerate Thu · #227 Easy Add Thumbnail · #2686

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.9Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

167per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

7.7y ago

latest release · v2.0

2

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

2.0 · 7.7y ago1.0 · 8.3y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v2.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
1K–2K ≈1.4K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2020-04-23 · 1,424 observations

1KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
2.0
Last updated
7.7y ago
Added
2018-05-25 · 8 yrs old
Requires WP
4.6
Tested up to
5.0.27
Requires PHP
5.3

Recent reviews

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  1. davidvdm
    3.1y ago

    After using several plugins to fix my media library this one just did everything in one go! Was having trouble with srcset images not being shown and I figured it had to do with some corruption in the Media Library. It did and this plugin fixed it easily! Thank you so much for saving me hours and hours of work! PS: Please consider updating this plugin as it is such a useful tool 🙂

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  2. Riyadh ali
    3.1y ago

    Very cool..Thank you fullness

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  3. adiltibari
    3.9y ago

    Works as expected

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  4. markisparki
    3.9y ago

    You are always taking a risk when using an old plugin (in my case FOUR years old and 3 major WP core updates behind the curve). Still, the reviews looked good and I had hundreds of broken links from deleted files from an image plugin that didn’t completeduring its table updates before crashing. I hadn’t noticed the crash until a few weeks later when I had hundreds of empty squares in my media library. After taking backups, I did a non-destructive dry run, which ran successfully and found all the hundreds of broken links. I then used the “Delete attachments pointing to missing image file” option and it cleared everything in one go. I am so very grateful for this plugin and wonder why it isn’t in the core of WP as deleting files using FTP for example is very easily done. Anyway, thank you for this plugin.

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  5. Hembike
    5.0y ago

    I searched for a very long time to find an easy solution to remove broken WooCommerce Product images if the image missing from the server from wp-content/uploads directory. This plugin has a “Delete attachments pointing to missing image file” function, it does the job very well.

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  6. noorac
    5.0y ago

    Listen, this plugin is a lifesaver. I certainly hope it’s not abandoned, it’s just too useful. WordPress was refusing to process thumbnails for some of my manually uploaded images because they were just too big. Even WP-CLI refused to deal with them. This plugin has come through in my time of need.

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  7. thejackk
    5.9y ago

    I was experiencing hanging issues in the WP dashboard for weeks. It went to the point I could not edit an elementor page without having to disable all other plugins. To update the picture of a product it was taking forever to display pictures. Thanks to this plugin, it fixed everything!!! Media opens in seconds. Plugins section opens in seconds it repaired everything, moves unused files. Brilliant! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

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  8. flyingkites
    6.8y ago

    I had a corrupted Media Library. Images were on server but not the folders were missing from the media library. By selecting just the main images (not the thumbnails) I was able to reimport them and the library now look as it should. Hopefully that means it all works now. NOTE: you need to change the default date to file date if are doing what I did.

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Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, 1 still affects the current version.

  1. 2025-12-12 CVE-2025-66126 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Affects <= 2.0 No patch available

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 4 languages, 4 at 90% or more

French (France) 100%
Spanish (Chile) 100%
Spanish (Spain) 100%
Swedish 100%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-05-10 2K+ → 1K+ down after 618 days in tier
  2. 2024-08-30 3K+ → 2K+ down after 533 days in tier
  3. 2023-03-16 4K+ → 3K+ down

Competes with

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