10 Best Media Cleaner Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Media Cleaner has 90,000+ 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 Media Cleaner
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Translate WordPress with GTranslate
Closest match4.9 (4,951) 900,000+ active installsTranslate WordPress with Google Translate multilanguage plugin using AI translation. Complete multilingual SEO solution, WooCommerce compatible.
About 10 times the installs, rated 4.9 against 4.6, last updated 7 days ago.
- 2
Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk
4.8 (3,211) 200,000+ active installsTop-rated antispam for contact forms, comments, WooCommerce, eCommerce, and login. No CAPTCHAs, no friction, just background anti spam protection.
About 2.2 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.6, last updated 5 days ago.
- 3
Translate WordPress – Google Language Translator
4.7 (618) 100,000+ active installsTranslate WordPress with Google Language Translator multilanguage plugin which allows to insert Google Translate widget anywhere on your website.
A similar number of installs, rated 4.7 against 4.6, last updated 7 days ago.
- 4
4.8 (725) 300,000+ active installsManage all your WordPress updates, including individual updates, automatic updates, logs, and loads more. This also works very well with WordPress Mul …
About 3.3 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.6, last updated 6 days ago.
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WP STAGING
Paid version availableWP STAGING – WordPress Backups, Restore, Migration & Clone
4.8 (2,464) 100,000+ active installsWordPress backup plugin: backups, restore & migration in minutes. Clone or duplicate your site, test updates on a staging copy. 100% unit-tested.
A similar number of installs, rated 4.8 against 4.6, last updated today.
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Simply Static – The Static Site Generator
4.5 (194) 30,000+ active installsConvert WordPress to static HTML. Boost performance 3-5x. Eliminate security vulnerabilities. Deploy anywhere.
About a third of the installs, rated 4.5 against 4.6, last updated 10 days ago.
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4.5 (25) 60,000+ active installsDownload any plugin from your WordPress admin panel's Plugins page by just one click! Now, download themes, users, blog posts, pages, custom post …
About half the installs, last updated July 27, 2026.
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Prime Mover – Backup and Migration
5.0 (138) 10,000+ active installsThe simplest all-around plugin to migrate WordPress and do backups. These support multisite backup/migration or cloning a WP site/multisite subsite.
10,000+ installs against 90,000+, rated 5.0 against 4.6, last updated August 5, 2026.
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4.7 (97) 10,000+ active installsThe purpose of this plugin is to add the ability to output a list of link categories and a complete list of links with notes and descriptions.
Shares the library tag on WordPress.org. 10,000+ installs against 90,000+, rated 4.7 against 4.6, last updated today.
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4.6 (21) 30,000+ active installsThis plugin automatically converts language accent characters to non-accent characters in filenames when uploading to the media library.
Shares the files, images, media tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, last updated January 14, 2026.
Switching from Media Cleaner: common questions
What is the best alternative to Media Cleaner?
Translate WordPress with GTranslate is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 900,000+ active installs with a 4.9 out of 5 rating.
Which Media Cleaner alternative has the most users?
Translate WordPress with GTranslate, with 900,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Media Cleaner alternative is rated highest?
Prime Mover, rated 5.0 out of 5 by 138 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Media Cleaner 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 Media Cleaner 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 Media Cleaner 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
Translate WordPress with GTranslate is the closest match to Media Cleaner by the data we track, and Translate WordPress with GTranslate has the widest reach with 900,000+ active installs. WP STAGING shipped the most recent release, on September 6, 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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