10 Best DX Delete Attached Media Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
DX Delete Attached Media has 4,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to DX Delete Attached Media
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Media Search Enhanced
Closest match4.4 (28) 5,000+ active installsSearch through all fields in Media Library.
Shares the attachment, media tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated April 23, 2026.
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4.4 (27) 900+ active installsAllows to find all posts where a particular attachment is used.
Shares the attachment, media tags on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, no update since June 1, 2021.
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4.8 (53) 8,000+ active installsAttachments allows you to simply append any number of items from your WordPress Media Library to Posts, Pages, and Custom Post Types
Shares the attachment, post tags on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated December 30, 2025.
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5.0 (61) 40,000+ active installsWhat this plugin does is to reveal most removed IDs on admin pages, as it was in versions prior to 2.5.
Shares the media, post tags on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 23 days ago.
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4.9 (47) 10,000+ active installsRedirect attachment pages or return a 404 error for them based on the parent post status.
Shares the attachment tag on WordPress.org. About 2.5 times the installs, last updated January 16, 2026.
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4.5 (46) 8,000+ active installsDownload Attachments is a new approach to managing downloads in WordPress. It allows you to easily add and display download links in any post or page.
Shares the attachment tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated May 26, 2026.
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4.3 (26) 3,000+ active installsImport attachments from another WordPress blog using a WXR file.
Shares the attachment tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, no update since September 25, 2014.
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4.7 (21) 400+ active installsThis plugin easily displays the folders and files from a selected directory. It can be placed by shortcode in any post.
Shares the attachment tag on WordPress.org. 400+ installs against 4,000+, last updated 20 days ago.
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4.6 (23) 6,000+ active installsPlugin lets you easily upload any file type (images, documents, videos, etc.) to customer orders.
Shares the attachment tag on WordPress.org. About 1.5 times the installs, last updated July 20, 2026.
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4.6 (239) 60,000+ active installsAdd From Server is designed to help ease the pain of bad web hosts, allowing you to upload files via FTP or SSH and later import them into WordPress.
Shares the media, post tags on WordPress.org. About 15 times the installs, no update since December 11, 2020.
Switching from DX Delete Attached Media: common questions
What is the best alternative to DX Delete Attached Media?
Media Search Enhanced is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 5,000+ active installs with a 4.4 out of 5 rating.
Which DX Delete Attached Media alternative has the most users?
Add From Server, with 60,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which DX Delete Attached Media alternative is rated highest?
Reveal IDs, rated 5.0 out of 5 by 61 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these DX Delete Attached Media alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with DX Delete Attached Media score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against DX Delete Attached Media on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Media Search Enhanced is the closest match to DX Delete Attached Media by the data we track, and Add From Server has the widest reach with 60,000+ active installs. m1.DownloadList shipped the most recent release, on August 18, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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