Fix Media Library

by wowpress.host

Description

Fix Media Library fixes inconsistency between wp-content/uploads folder and
database.
Fixes corrupted Media Library database records.
Designed to run smoothly against huge Media Libraries containing hundreds of thousands of images.

Useful when:

Really old database is used and there are a lot of problems with Media Library found
New thumbnail sizes are registered
Some thumbnail sizes are not used anymore (theme change, upgrade), but image files are still exists
There are Media Library entries present pointing to image files that don’t exist anymore
Some entries in Media Library are not displayed, while image files are present (_wp_attachment_metadata meta field corrupted)
There are a lot of images in wp-content/uploads folder that are no longer used
There are duplicate attachments pointing to the same image file
Images are used by website, but you can’t find them in Media Library
You want to update attachments GUID fields containing old/staging urls
Detects major database corruptions affecting media library functionality

At WowPress.host company we regularly migrate very old databases and clean it up to make sure website using it is running smoothly. Those databases have all different kinds of inconsistencies collected during years or even decades of usage, and Media Library is the most common problematic piece of data here.
That plugin helps to solve most common problems related to Media Library data.

We use a lot of open-source tools in our work, and therefore decided publish our own tools so that those can be used by the community too.

Need Help? Found A Bug? Want To Contribute Code?

Support for this plugin is provided via the WordPress.org forums.

The source code for this plugin is available on GitHub.

Paid support at WowPress.host.

Installation

Go to your admin area and select Plugins Add New from the menu.
Search for “Fix Media Library”.
Click install.
Click activate.
Navigate to Tools Fix Media Library.

Screenshots

Configuration page
Progress running

Reviews

Lifesaver!

By davidvdm on August 2, 2023

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 🙂

Very cool.

By Riyadh ali (senansoft) on July 10, 2023

Very cool..
Thank you fullness

Works as expected

By adiltibari on September 30, 2022

Works as expected

An Oldie But Goodie

By markisparki on September 28, 2022

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.

5 star! Very useful plugin

By Hembike on September 16, 2021

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.

Life saver

By noorac on August 30, 2021

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.

Fantastic Tool - Saved my website

By thejackk on October 17, 2020

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!!!

Still Works

By flyingkites on November 6, 2019

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.

Very good, if you have orphaned entries in your media library

By nilsen on October 31, 2019

I searched a long time to actually find a working plugin that would remove all the orphaned entries in a photographers website. This worked very well! Some suggestion to get it to 5 stars: Make a short FAQ for how to do certain things. For me it was only important to fix the media library and remove all the orphaned files, so it would be nice to show the users which settings should be used for different usage cases, like for example: Delete orphaned images Delete images that are no longer used in the Website Recreate the Metadata and Thumbnails

Great Plugin

By suznade on October 26, 2019

Worked perfectly 🙂

Changelog

Version 2.0

Correctly process attachments stored without subfolders, like year/month.
Don’t fail on folders with corrupted-charset characters in filename.
Handle _wp_attachment_backup_sizes metadata – remove on regeneration, ignore on weak references check

Perform basic database structure check

Version 1.0

Initial release.