Media Cleaner 6.9.1

Does Media Cleaner work with WordPress 6.8.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
1PHP deprecation warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 25.46 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: insignificant.
The plugin didn't make the site noticeably slower.

Environment
WordPress version6.8.1
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 90,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-cleaner/
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Pages 5

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=media-cleaner%2Fmedia-cleaner.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=54f65bf48b
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.343 s
Memory usage 3.58 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Media → Cleaner

Page screenshot: Media → Cleaner
URL /wp-admin/upload.php?page=wpmc_dashboard
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.768 s
Memory usage 4.63 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Meow Apps

Page screenshot: Meow Apps
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=meowapps-main-menu&nekoTab=meow-apps
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=meowapps-main-menu
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.956 s
Memory usage 3.63 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Meow Apps → Media Cleaner

Page screenshot: Meow Apps → Media Cleaner
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpmc_settings&nekoTab=media-library-scan
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpmc_settings
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.329 s
Memory usage 3.53 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Page screenshot: Test site – Just another WordPress site
URL /
Aspect front-page
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.174 s
Memory usage 3.43 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.338 s0.259 s-0.079 s3.51 MiB3.55 MiB+ 40.14 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.192 s0.213 s+0.021 s3.57 MiB3.61 MiB+ 40.95 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.786 s1.076 s+0.290 s6.06 MiB6.1 MiB+ 44.25 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.574 s0.410 s-0.164 s3.52 MiB3.55 MiB+ 23.54 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.221 s0.180 s-0.041 s3.5 MiB3.53 MiB+ 27.53 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.282 s0.242 s-0.040 s3.49 MiB3.53 MiB+ 35.73 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.246 s0.185 s-0.061 s3.5 MiB3.55 MiB+ 46.4 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.595 s0.597 s+0.002 s6.05 MiB6.09 MiB+ 39.78 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.466 s0.425 s-0.041 s3.5 MiB3.53 MiB+ 24.03 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.239 s0.459 s+0.220 s3.52 MiB3.55 MiB+ 23.53 KiB
/0.307 s0.221 s-0.086 s3.5 MiB3.44 MiB- 65.84 KiB
Average 0.386 s0.388 s+0.002 s3.98 MiB4 MiB+ 25.46 KiB

Code Statistics

Note: Third-party libraries and minified JS/CSS files are excluded from these statistics where possible, so the numbers you see here may be lower than those reported by other tools.

PHP
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP99.9%4,37345223
JavaScript0.1%6362
Total 4,379 488 25

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 4,359
Total complexity 1,032
Median class complexity 29.0
Median method complexity 3.0
Most complex class Meow_WPMC_Core
Most complex function Meow_WPMC_Support::get_issues()
Classes 14
Methods 206
Functions 16

Additions

Things that the plugin adds to the site. This section is not intended to be comprehensive. The test tool only looks for a few specific types of added content.

Database Tables 2

Options wp_options 2

Meta Boxes

{
    "attachment": {
        "mfrh_media_usage_box": {
            "title": "Media Cleaner",
            "context": "side"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log 1 lines

[30-Jun-2025 13:30:52 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  strtolower(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/media-cleaner/classes/core.php on line 2274
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Media Cleaner Admin Menus and Meta Boxes