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Media Usage Tracker

by iveyb

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Description

This plugin scans all image files on a single page of the media library and finds anywhere the image is used in the following cases:

  • Featured images for posts, pages, custom posts, or taxonomies
  • Advanced Custom Fields for posts, pages, custom posts, or taxonomies (including fields inside repeaters or similar parent areas)
  • Other post custom fields
  • Post, page, or custom post content
  • WordPress or WP Bakery Builder image galleries
  • WordPress video shortcode “poster” attributes and WP Bakery Builder video shortcode “overlay_image” attributes
  • Gravity Forms field choices, confirmations, and notifications
  • Yoast SEO OpenGraph / Facebook images and Twitter / X images
  • Yoast SEO sitewide settings, including default social images, site logo, and site icon
  • wpDataTable cells, both for manual tables and automatic tables

Third-Party Service Integration

This plugin can detect media usage in the following third-party plugins (if installed):
– Gravity Forms
– Yoast SEO
– wpDataTables
– Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)

No data is sent to external services. All scanning happens locally on your WordPress installation.

How long does it take to scan my images?

It depends on how many posts / pages / etc. are on your site, and how many items per page your media library is set to show. In our testing:

A site with 500 posts can scan 20 media items in 20 minutes.

A site with 100 posts can scan 20 media items in 2 minutes.

My scan keeps getting stuck or timing out. Why?

Because it checks so many different use cases for each media item, the plugin can only handle about 30 media items per page. If no scan progress is successfully made in 10 minutes, it will alert you on the media library page to restart the scan, but it will not restart the scan on its own without your input. If you are seeing this alert, try setting your Media Library pagination to a smaller number of items.

Why don’t I see usage results for videos / PDFs / etc.?

Right now, the plugin is only designed to search for image files. We’d like to expand it later to support more file types!

Why doesn’t it also show that my image is used in my gallery plugin / my Elementor elements / etc.?

The plugin currently only checks for the image usage locations and types described above. If you store images in another location (such as page builder elements or other plugins) and you notice this plugin doesn’t find them, feel free to contact us with your information and we will look into adding support for that situation as well!

1.0

  • Original version.
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