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  • March 19, 2021 at 3:29 AM #26515
    JasonJason
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    I have several unused images in my media library. So, it's not very efficient to delete them from the media library one by one. I'm using this plugin to remove the orphaned image in my media library. But it doesn't detect the images that are used by Metabox. So, it incorrectly deletes those images.
    https://meowapps.com/plugin/media-cleaner/

    Do you have a solution for bulk deleting unused images, that will not delete the images used by the metabox plugin?

    March 19, 2021 at 6:48 PM #26532
    Long NguyenLong Nguyen
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    Hi Jason,

    Each image is a post (post type attachment). So you can delete images by using the function wp_delete_attachment() in the loop and check a condition if the post has meta (field) value https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_post_meta/.

    March 22, 2021 at 6:56 PM #26582
    JasonJason
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    Thank you for your help. Also, I found this plugin that automatically deletes attachments when a post is deleted. I'm having success with this plugin.
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoremove-attachments/

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