Disk Usage Insights

Description

Find large files and large folders in no time. This plugin scans your whole WordPress installation, counts all files and folders, sums up the sizes and outputs useful statistics to find unwanted large objects in your system.

Screenshots

  • Largest Files and Largest Folders
  • Largest Folders, Folders with most files, Largest Plugins, Largest Themes

Installation

  1. Upload the plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
  2. Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin.

FAQ

How do I use this plugin?

You have two options:
* Open the Tools section in the Admin Area and select “Disk Usage Insights”.
* Click the pie chart in the admin bar.

How to uninstall the plugin?

Simply deactivate and delete the plugin.

Is Multisite supported?

Yes, but only for users with the “manage_sites” privilege, which Super Admins have by default.

Which PHP version is supported?

You need a PHP version >= 7.4.

Reviews

March 14, 2025 1 reply
No ads, no fluff, just does what it says. One click and it will scan your site to show you what files are taking up the most space. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what files were taking up so much space on a client site until I ran this plugin. It found a super old backup file from a backup plugin that was never deleted totaling over 7GB of disk space. Understand that it will not delete the files for you. You will still have to manually delete them on your own, but it will pinpoint what the files are and where they’re located so you don’t have to manually go through every single file and folder on your sever.
December 6, 2024 1 reply
My Wordpress site was getting close to storage allowance, this plugin helped me quickly find folders and files that were taking up a lot of disk space. Removed the files and I’m now back within my allowance. Thanks for a great plugin
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Contributors & Developers

“Disk Usage Insights” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

1.5

  • Plugin is now 2-5x faster in scanning and analysis

1.4

  • Plugin now runs with PHP >=7.4

1.3

  • Reimplemented “Largest Plugin Folder” and “Largest Theme Folders” from v1.1
  • Bugfix: Report “Largest Folders (incl. sub folders)” was sorted by count instead of size
  • Bugfix: Fix issues with the playground demo version

1.2

  • Support for really big and slow installations (complete code rewrite, usage of sqlite as a database and job queues on top of it)

1.1

  • Support for Multisite installations (user must have privilege “manage_sites” which Super Admins have by default)
  • Disk Usage in percent is now visualized with a bar in the background of the first column

1.0

  • Plugin released.