Title: EvoMedia – Link-Safe Media Replace, Convert & Cleanup
Author: gfxproductions
Published: 20 de Julio de 2026
Last modified: 29 de Julio de 2026
---
Buscar plugins
# EvoMedia – Link-Safe Media Replace, Convert & Cleanup
Por [gfxproductions](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gfxproductions/)
[Descargar](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/evomedia.1.3.0.zip)
* [Detalles](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/evomedia/#description)
* [Reseñas](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/evomedia/#reviews)
* [Instalación](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/evomedia/#installation)
* [Desarrollo](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/evomedia/#developers)
[Soporte](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/evomedia/)
## Descripción
WordPress will not let you change the file behind an existing attachment. You delete,
re-upload, then hunt down thirty broken images by hand.
EvoMedia replaces the file in place, keeps the attachment ID, and **rewrites every
reference to it across your whole database** – post content, postmeta, and the serialized
structures page builders and custom fields store their data in.
That last part is the whole point. An image URL is not only in your post content.
It is buried inside Elementor’s JSON, inside ACF fields, inside WooCommerce gallery
meta – all of it serialized, where a naive search-and-replace corrupts the data
and takes the page down with it. EvoMedia unserializes, replaces, and re-serializes
each value, so the byte lengths stay correct and nothing breaks.
The same engine then lets it do something no image optimizer does: **convert a JPEG
to WebP and keep the attachment**, renaming `photo.jpg` to `photo.webp` and repointing
every reference at the new file. Other plugins keep the original and add a parallel
file served through an `.htaccess` rule, a `` tag or a CDN. EvoMedia changes
the actual file on your disk. There is no rewriting layer at page-render time –
nothing to break when you switch hosts, and nothing to un-install later.
And once your library grows, EvoMedia helps you see into it: an index of where every
image is actually used, so you know what is safe to remove – plus reports of the
duplicate and orphaned files quietly wasting your disk.
Everything runs on your own server, through Imagick or GD. No account, no API key,
no credits, no monthly quota, no upload limit. Your images are never sent anywhere.
#### What it does
* **Replace media, safely** – upload a new file over an existing attachment. Keep
the current file name and the URL never changes; or adopt the uploaded file’s
name; or change format entirely. Every reference across posts and postmeta is
rewritten, serialized data included. Optionally back up the current file first,
edit the title, set the date.
* **Convert to WebP, AVIF or JPEG** – whichever your server can encode, automatically
on upload or in bulk across your existing library, with progress feedback. The
System Info page shows exactly which formats your image driver supports.
* **Manage image sub-sizes** – pick which of WordPress’s resized copies get generated
on upload, and switch off the ones your theme never uses so WordPress stops making
them: faster uploads and less clutter from here on. See a live count of how many
images in your library have each size, and regenerate the whole library to match
in one click. WordPress core sizes are flagged, so you never turn one off by
mistake.
* **Resize oversized uploads** – optionally cap every incoming image at 2560px
and drop the full-size original WordPress would otherwise keep beside it, so
oversized photos never bloat your library. Off by default; nothing changes until
you switch it on from the upload panel.
* **See where every image is used** – build an index of your content, then read
a count on each image showing how many places refer to it. Open it to see the
exact pages, posts, custom fields and site settings, and which size each one
uses. Sort by it to bring the unused ones together, and get a report of pages
asking for files your library no longer has.
* **Find duplicate images** – spot pictures your library holds more than once,
compared byte for byte rather than guessed from their size, with the disk space
the extra copies are wasting. Entries that merely share one file on disk are
listed apart, because deleting one of those would take the file the others use.
* **Find orphaned files** – list files sitting in your monthly upload folders that
no Media Library item claims, each with a preview. Only the year and month folders
WordPress itself creates are scanned, so caches, page-builder folders and backups
are never touched, and any file your content still asks for by name is flagged
as still in use.
* **A record of every rewrite** – when Replace renames a file it rewrites the references
to it across your posts, custom fields and site settings; that history is listed,
so you always know what changed and where.
* **Backup and restore** – the original is archived before every conversion, and
can be restored or deleted per image or in bulk.
* **Compression quality** – one slider, from 10 to 100. A master switch turns the
engine off without deactivating the plugin.
* **Control Center** – your whole library on one screen: sort, search, preview,
download, see each file’s format, size and backup state.
* **System Info** – a one-click report of what your server can actually do, and
of every other plugin EvoMedia has to coexist with.
#### Why the serialization matters
Try this with any other tool: put an image in an Elementor section, then rename
the file. Elementor stores its layout as a serialized PHP array inside postmeta,
and every string in it is prefixed with its own byte length. Change `photo.jpg`
to `photo.webp` with a plain SQL replace and the recorded length no longer matches
the string. PHP refuses to unserialize it. The section disappears.
EvoMedia walks the structure, replaces the value, and lets PHP recompute the lengths.
This is why it can offer replace, format conversion and (in the Pro add-on) renaming
at all – and it is the part that took the longest to get right.
#### Take control of the sizes WordPress generates
Every upload, WordPress quietly creates a stack of resized copies – thumbnail, medium,
large, and hidden HiDPI versions – whether your theme uses them or not. EvoMedia
lists every registered size with a live count of how many images in your library
have it, lets you turn off the ones you don’t need (only new uploads and regenerations
are affected – files already on disk are left alone), and regenerates your whole
library to match with a single button and a progress bar. Core sizes are flagged,
so you never switch off one the theme relies on by accident.
#### Know which images you can actually delete
Every library accumulates images nobody uses, and the reason they are never cleared
out is that you cannot tell which ones they are. Deleting the wrong one takes a
page down.
EvoMedia scans your posts, pages, custom fields and site settings and records where
each image is referenced – including the ones page builders name by ID with no URL
to search for, and the ones held in a category image, an author profile or your
site logo. Each image then carries a count you can sort by, and opening it lists
the exact places, with the size each one uses.
It reports only what it can prove. An image referenced solely from a theme file,
a stylesheet or an external service cannot be seen from the database, and every
list says so rather than pretending otherwise. An image that has not been scanned
yet shows “?” and never “0” – because “nobody uses this” and “nobody has looked”
are different answers, and confusing them is how cleanup tools delete pictures that
were still on a page.
#### Built to coexist
Media plugins break each other. EvoMedia is written to notice what else is installed:
* **WPML and Polylang** – translated attachments share one file. EvoMedia keeps
every language sibling in sync and collapses duplicates in its own lists.
* **Page builders** – Elementor and friends store their data as slashed JSON inside
postmeta. EvoMedia writes exact bytes rather than letting WordPress re-escape
them.
* **Cloud offload** – if WP Offload Media, Cloudinary, Media Cloud, WP-Stateless
or S3 Uploads is active, EvoMedia refuses to touch the files rather than corrupt
your remote bucket, and tells you why.
#### Requirements
PHP 8.1 or later, and either Imagick (recommended) or GD. Which output formats you
can use depends on your host’s image driver – WebP and AVIF are common, JPEG XL
is rare; the System Info page tells you exactly what your server can do.
#### EvoMedia Pro
Every WordPress library quietly fills with weight nothing uses: the same photo uploaded
three times, sub-sizes your theme never touches, the full-resolution originals WordPress
keeps beside every large image, and files left orphaned by years of renames and
imports. It swells your backups, slows every migration, and quietly runs up your
storage bill – and it never gets cleaned out for one reason: you cannot safely tell
what is still in use.
The free EvoMedia shows you exactly where all that waste is. [EvoMedia Pro](https://store.gfxproductions.com)
is what clears it – built on the same link-safe engine, so it does the one thing
other cleanup plugins get dangerously wrong: **it never removes anything your site
still needs.**
Before it deletes a single file, the Pro re-checks your live content at that moment,
not some stale scan. An image still used anywhere is left alone. A resize that would
break a page is refused, and shows you which posts to fix first. Merging duplicates
moves every reference – in posts, meta and page-builder data, by URL and by ID –
onto the copy you keep before the others go. You get the disk space back without
the broken images.
* **Reclaim the space unused images waste** – the free “Used in” count shows which
pictures nothing on your site points at; the Pro removes them, one at a time
or in bulk, re-checking live and refusing to delete a file another library entry
shares.
* **Collapse duplicate uploads into one** – the same image uploaded three times
is three times the disk. The Pro merges a set onto the copy you keep, repointing
every reference first, then removing the rest. Reversible.
* **Clear orphaned files** – the leftovers of old renames and imports that no library
item claims, often the single heaviest files on your disk. Deleted only after
a fresh re-scan, and never while your content still asks for them.
* **Strip the oversized “-scaled” originals** – WordPress keeps a full-resolution
copy beside every image over 2560px, frequently several megabytes each, named
by nothing and invisible in the admin. Clear them library-wide while keeping
the image people actually see.
* **Delete the sub-sizes you turned off** – the free build stops generating them;
the Pro removes the copies already on disk across your whole library, and can
regenerate a single size for every image in one pass.
* **Resize on your own terms** – set your own maximum width and height on upload
instead of the fixed 2560px cap, and shrink any single image already in your
library straight from the Control Center: proportional, never enlarging, and
refusing rather than breaking a page that uses the old size.
* **Rename without breaking anything** – rename a file from the Media Library and
have every reference rewritten, serialized page-builder and ACF data included,
exactly like Replace. Reversible.
* **And more** – JPEG XL uploads where your server supports them, and a backups
manager to browse, download and delete your archived originals.
EvoMedia Pro installs alongside this plugin and needs it to run. It is available
from the author at [store.gfxproductions.com](https://store.gfxproductions.com).
**None of that code is in this plugin.** This plugin is not a trial and has nothing
locked, disabled or limited. There is no licence check, no upsell nag, no counter,
no expiry, and no cap on how many images you may process. Everything it ships, it
does.
## Capturas de pantalla
[⌊The Control Center: your whole library, now showing where each image is actually
used - sort by it to surface what nothing points at.⌉⌊The Control Center: your whole
library, now showing where each image is actually used - sort by it to surface what
nothing points at.⌉[
The Control Center: your whole library, now showing where each image is actually
used – sort by it to surface what nothing points at.
[⌊Media Usage: build an index of where every image is used, and get a report of
any pages still asking for image files your library no longer has.⌉⌊Media Usage:
build an index of where every image is used, and get a report of any pages still
asking for image files your library no longer has.⌉[
Media Usage: build an index of where every image is used, and get a report of any
pages still asking for image files your library no longer has.
[⌊Image Sub-sizes: for every size, how many copies exist, how much disk they take,
and how often each is actually used.⌉⌊Image Sub-sizes: for every size, how many
copies exist, how much disk they take, and how often each is actually used.⌉[
Image Sub-sizes: for every size, how many copies exist, how much disk they take,
and how often each is actually used.
[⌊Duplicate Images: pictures your library holds more than once, compared byte for
byte, with the disk space you would reclaim.⌉⌊Duplicate Images: pictures your library
holds more than once, compared byte for byte, with the disk space you would reclaim
.⌉[
Duplicate Images: pictures your library holds more than once, compared byte for
byte, with the disk space you would reclaim.
[⌊Orphaned Files: files left in your upload folders that no library item claims,
each with a preview.⌉⌊Orphaned Files: files left in your upload folders that no
library item claims, each with a preview.⌉[
Orphaned Files: files left in your upload folders that no library item claims, each
with a preview.
[⌊Replace media: current file and new file side by side, before you commit.⌉⌊Replace
media: current file and new file side by side, before you commit.⌉[
Replace media: current file and new file side by side, before you commit.
[⌊Upload settings, reachable from the WordPress uploader without leaving the page-
including the optional resize-on-upload cap.⌉⌊Upload settings, reachable from the
WordPress uploader without leaving the page - including the optional resize-on-upload
cap.⌉[
Upload settings, reachable from the WordPress uploader without leaving the page –
including the optional resize-on-upload cap.
[⌊System Info, with a one-click report and a check-for-updates button.⌉⌊System Info,
with a one-click report and a check-for-updates button.⌉[
System Info, with a one-click report and a check-for-updates button.
## Instalación
1. Upload the `evomedia` folder to `/wp-content/plugins/`, or install it through **
Plugins Add New**.
2. Activate it through the **Plugins** menu.
3. Go to **EvoMedia Format Conversion** to choose your target format and quality.
4. Upload an image, or select existing ones and run a bulk conversion.
Visit **EvoMedia System Info** first if you are unsure whether your server supports
WebP.
## FAQ
### Will converting break the images already used in my posts?
No. EvoMedia keeps the attachment and updates WordPress’s own metadata, so everything
that renders through WordPress keeps working. And if a replace changes the file’s
name or its format, every reference in posts and postmeta is rewritten to match –
serialized data included.
### Will replacing an image change its URL?
Only if you ask it to. Keep the current file name and the URL stays identical: nothing
anywhere needs updating. Choose the uploaded file’s name, or a different format,
and EvoMedia rewrites every reference for you. Be aware that if other websites link
straight to the old file, those links will break – that is unavoidable once the
filename changes.
### Can I go back to the original file?
Yes. Tick “Backup originals before converting” and the original is archived before
each conversion. Restore it from the Backup Status column, per image or in bulk.
### Which output formats can I choose?
Whichever your server’s image driver can actually encode – commonly WebP, AVIF and
JPEG, and JPEG XL on the rare host whose Imagick was built with it. Only formats
your server can write are listed: nothing is shown that you cannot select and use
immediately, and nothing your server supports is held back. The System Info page
reports exactly what your image driver can do.
### If I turn off an image size, does it delete the copies I already have?
No. Turning a size off only stops WordPress generating it for new uploads and regenerations–
the files already on disk are left exactly as they are. (Reclaiming that disk space
by deleting a size’s existing files is a job for the Pro add-on.)
### Is it safe to turn off the thumbnail, medium or large sizes?
Those are WordPress core sizes, flagged with a warning, because themes and the responsive-
image system often rely on them. WordPress falls back to a nearby size if one is
missing, but layouts can shift – so turn off a core size only if you know your theme
doesn’t use it. The extra HiDPI copies (1536×1536, 2048×2048) are usually the safest
to drop.
### What does “Regenerate all images” do?
It rebuilds every image’s sub-sizes to match your current settings – (re)creating
the sizes you have on and dropping the ones you turned off. It never deletes files
and only touches the sub-sizes, never your originals.
### Can EvoMedia shrink images that are too big when I upload them?
Yes. Turn on “Resize on upload” in the upload panel to cap every incoming image
at 2560px and drop the oversized full-size original WordPress would otherwise keep
beside it. It is off by default, so nothing changes until you switch it on. (The
Pro add-on lets you set your own maximum dimensions, and resize images already in
your library.)
### How do I find images that nothing uses?
Build the index from EvoMedia Media Usage. Every image then carries a “Used in”
count in the Control Center that opens to show the exact posts, custom fields and
site settings referring to it, and which size each one uses. A count of 0 means
nothing on your site points at it. An image that has not been scanned yet shows “?”
and never “0”, so you are never told an image is unused just because it has not
been looked at. (Deleting unused images in bulk is a feature of the Pro add-on;
the free build shows you what is safe to remove.)
### Is it safe to delete duplicate or orphaned files?
The free build only lists them. Duplicates are compared byte for byte, not guessed
from their size, so nothing is called a duplicate until the contents match; entries
that merely share one file on disk are listed apart. Orphaned files are looked for
only in the year and month folders WordPress itself creates, and any file your content
still references by name is flagged as still in use. Removing them is the Pro add-
on’s job, and it re-scans and re-checks each file at the moment of deletion, so
nothing in use is ever taken off disk.
### Why does it convert the file instead of serving a WebP copy?
Because a parallel copy has to be delivered by something: an `.htaccess` rule, a`
` tag rewrite, or a CDN. That layer can fail silently, breaks when you
move host, and leaves orphaned files behind if you ever remove it. EvoMedia converts
the file itself and repoints every reference at it. What is on disk is what is served,
by WordPress, with no help from anything.
### What happens to my images if I deactivate the plugin?
Nothing. Converted files stay where they are and keep being served. EvoMedia does
not proxy or rewrite anything at page-render time.
### I use WP Offload Media. Why are the Replace buttons missing?
Because your files live in a remote bucket, and rewriting them locally would leave
your site pointing at stale objects. EvoMedia detects the offload plugin and steps
aside. If you know what you are doing, the `evomedia_allow_with_offload` filter
overrides this.
### Are there any limits, caps or trials?
None. No image quota, no counter, no expiry, no licence key, and no feature switched
off waiting to be unlocked. Everything in this plugin works from the moment you
activate it.
### Does it send my images anywhere?
No. Conversion runs on your own server through Imagick or GD. The plugin makes no
network requests of any kind.
## Reseñas
No hay reseñas para este plugin.
## Colaboradores & Desarrolladores
“EvoMedia – Link-Safe Media Replace, Convert & Cleanup” es software de código abierto.
Las siguientes personas han contribuido a este plugin.
Colaboradores
* [ gfxproductions ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gfxproductions/)
[Traduce “EvoMedia – Link-Safe Media Replace, Convert & Cleanup” a tu idioma.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/evomedia)
### ¿Interesado en el desarrollo?
[Revisa el código](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/evomedia/), echa un
vistazo al [repositorio SVN](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/evomedia/), o suscríbete
al [registro de desarrollo](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/evomedia/) por
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/evomedia/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).
## Historial de cambios
#### 1.3.0
* Fixed: regenerating sub-sizes lost the link to WordPress’s full-size original.
The file stayed on disk with nothing pointing at it – invisible in the admin,
taking up space, and holding a filename that later renames then had to work around.
This affected “Regenerate all images” and restoring from a backup, so a library
that has been regenerated since 1.2.0 may have originals stranded this way; they
are safe to leave, but they are only reachable over FTP. New regenerations no
longer do this.
* Fixed: regenerating sub-sizes for an image WordPress had scaled on upload created
a second full set under different filenames and abandoned the first, leaving
six unused files per image. Regeneration now keeps the filenames it found, so
the existing copies are replaced rather than duplicated – and pages that embedded
the old URLs keep working.
* New: Media Usage. Build an index of where every image is used, then see a per-
image count in the Control Center that opens to list the exact pages, posts,
custom fields and site settings referring to it – and which size each one uses.
The column is sortable, so unused images group together.
* New: the Image Sub-sizes panel now shows, for every size, how many times it is
actually used and how much disk it occupies – so you can tell an unused 4 MB
size from one your theme depends on before switching it off.
* New: a broken references report, listing pages that ask for image files your
library no longer has.
* New: an image that has never been scanned shows “?” rather than “0”. Nothing
here will ever tell you an image is unused because it has not been looked at
yet.
* New: replacing an image larger than WordPress’s 2560px limit now offers to resize
it, keeping the filename so your links stay valid. Replace deliberately never
resizes on its own, which until now left oversized replacements at full size.
* New: Resize on upload. Cap every incoming image at 2560px and drop the oversized
original it would otherwise keep beside it, from the upload panel – off by default,
so nothing changes until you ask for it.
* New: the Replace dialog says when the file you picked has a name another attachment
already owns, and what your replacement will be called instead.
* New: Recent Reference Changes. When a replace changes a file’s name it rewrites
the references to it across your posts, custom fields and site settings – that
history is now listed, so you always know what changed.
* New: Duplicate Images. Finds pictures your library holds more than once, comparing
files byte for byte rather than guessing from their size, and shows how much
disk the extra copies take. Library entries that share a single file on disk
are listed separately, because deleting one of those destroys the file the others
use.
* New: Orphaned Files. Lists files sitting in your monthly upload folders that
no Media Library item claims. Only the year and month folders WordPress creates
are examined, so caches, page-builder folders and backups are never touched –
and any orphan your content still asks for by name is flagged as still in use
rather than offered for removal.
* Fixed: undoing a rename or replace could restore only part of it. Where one operation
had rewritten the same page more than once – the main filename and then each
sub-size – the page was put back to an intermediate state and the result was
still reported as a success.
#### 1.2.0
* New: Image Sub-sizes – choose which of WordPress’s resized copies get generated
for every upload, see a live count of how many images in your library have each
size, and regenerate the whole library to match in one click. WordPress core
sizes are flagged.
* New: WordPress’s own Media Settings screen now greys out the sizes you have switched
off in EvoMedia, with a link back to the panel that manages them.
* New: a “Check for updates” button on the System Info page, with each version
row showing whether it is up to date.
* Fixed: after a same-name Replace, on-demand crops created by page builders (WPBakery,
Elementor, Avada) kept the old image while the builder’s cache kept serving it,
so the new picture never appeared. These leftover crops are now cleared – and
any crop that is another attachment’s own file is left untouched.
#### 1.1.0
* First public release.
* Replace media: swap the file behind an existing attachment, keeping its ID and
URL, with an optional backup of the current file, an editable title, and a date
option.
* Control Center: sortable columns, search, per-format colour badges, and an image
preview lightbox.
* Upload settings moved into a slide-out panel, reachable straight from the WordPress
uploader.
* New System Info page, with a one-click report to paste into a support ticket.
* Compatibility: WPML and Polylang sibling sync; page-builder-safe metadata writes;
cloud offload plugins detected, with media actions disabled rather than corrupting
your bucket.
* Fixed: replacing an image larger than 2560px left the site’s references pointing
at WordPress’s full-size original instead of the served file.
* Fixed: admin thumbnails kept showing the previous image after a replace, until
a hard refresh.
* Fixed: two elements of the Replace dialog were displayed even when they should
have been hidden.
## Meta
* Versión **1.3.0**
* Última actualización **hace 3 horas**
* Instalaciones activas **Menos de 10**
* Versión de WordPress ** 6.0 o superior **
* Probado hasta **7.0.2**
* Versión de PHP ** 8.1 o superior **
* Idioma
* [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/evomedia/)
* Etiquetas
* [AVIF](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/avif/)[media library](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/media-library/)
[regenerate thumbnails](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/regenerate-thumbnails/)
[replace image](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/replace-image/)[webp](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/webp/)
* [Vista Avanzada](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/evomedia/advanced/)
## Calificaciones
Aún no se han enviado valoraciones.
[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/evomedia/reviews/#new-post)
[Ver todas las reseñas](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/evomedia/reviews/)
## Colaboradores
* [ gfxproductions ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gfxproductions/)
## Soporte
¿Tienes algo que decir? ¿Necesitas ayuda?
[Ver el foro de soporte](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/evomedia/)