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Disk Usage Widget Free

See disk usage on the WordPress dashboard

A dashboard widget that shows how much space the site uses, broken down by folder, with a warning as you approach the limit.

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

in the free plugin
Free
developer hook
1
Admin Tools modules
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Why you need Disk Usage Widget

Hosting storage fills up quietly until uploads or backups start failing. By then the site is already broken.

What Disk Usage Widget does

  • Space at a glance Total usage and the folders using the most space.
  • Early warnings A warning state as usage approaches the limit, and an error state when it’s reached.

Where Disk Usage Widget helps

  • A photographer in her studio with WP Extended open on a desktop monitor

    Client sites on shared hosting

    Spot a full disk before it stops backups.

For developers

Disk Usage Widget has 1 hook for changing its behaviour per project, without editing the plugin.

All Disk Usage Widget hooks
filter functions.php or a Code Snippet
add_filter( 'wpextended/disk_usage/thresholds', function ( $value ) {
    // Return the value you want to use
    return $value;
} );
  • disk_usage/thresholds

Disk Usage Widget questions

Disk Usage Widget documentation

Yes. It is in the free plugin.

Get Disk Usage Widget free

Disk Usage Widget 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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