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Disable Video Uploads Free

Stop video uploads to the media library

Block video files from the media library, so large uploads don’t fill your hosting storage or slow down backups.

Free on WordPress.org, with nothing locked behind Pro.

in the free plugin
Free
last improved in
3.0.0
Media Tools modules
4
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Why you need Disable Video Uploads

One editor uploading a few raw videos can fill a hosting plan and make every backup slower. Video is better hosted on YouTube or Vimeo and embedded.

What Disable Video Uploads does

  • Video uploads blocked Video file types are refused when someone tries to upload them.

Where Disable Video Uploads helps

  • A developer working late with WP Extended Code Snippets open across two monitors

    Shared hosting

    Protect limited storage on client sites.

Recent changes

The latest updates to Disable Video Uploads, from the WP Extended changelog.

Full changelog
  1. v3.0.0 7 Jun 2024
    • new

      Disable Video Uploads module.

Disable Video Uploads questions

Disable Video Uploads documentation

Yes. It is in the free plugin.

Yes. Embeds aren’t uploads, so they work as normal.

Get Disable Video Uploads free

Disable Video Uploads is in the free plugin on WordPress.org, alongside 34 other free modules you can switch on when you need them.

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