Detecting and Deleting Duplicate Images

How Mediapapa Detects Duplicates

Every time you upload an image to your website, Mediapapa scans your media library and identifies image that are identical, even if the title, size or format is different.

This will allow you to know how many images are duplicated on your website for each image.

In order to delete all possible duplicated images, you will need the administrator right to delete other authors images. If not, you’ll have an error.

Where to Find Duplicates

Into the Mediapapa optimization modal

1. In your WordPress admin, go to Media Library

2. Whenever you click on a media, the Mediapapa optimization modal open

3. A quick alert will inform you if this media has duplicates and a suggestion to choose the one to keep

On Media Library grid view

1. In your WordPress admin, go to Media Library in grid view

2. Go to Screen Options and activate the Health Index column

3. You will now see for each image with duplicates the number of duplicates and a suggestion to choose the one to keep

Filter the Media Library

1. In your WordPress admin, go to Media Library

2. Filter status by Duplicated media

3. You will see all the duplicated media of your Media Library

How to Delete Duplicates

1. Click on Choose the one to keep

2. A modal will appear to select a version. Mediapapa recommend you the image with better score and the oldest upload date.

   

3. Select the one you want to keep and click Deduplicate

4. Now Mediapapa will :

   • Look for all the occurrences of the media within the site

   • Replace the old value (url, id) with the new media id

   • Delete the old media from your system when it’s safe to do so

5. Your Media Library is a bit cleaner now

If somebody else is editing a content where the media is in use, the replacement will be delayed.