Visual Usage Bar in Media Manager for WordPress

In this article, you will learn how to view the visual usage bar in WordPress Media Manager.

To view the new visual usage bar, from the WordPress Dashboard click on Media > Media Manager.

The Media Manager page is displayed showing the new visual usage bar.

If you hover over the bar, you will get a popup showing the usage details.

The colour key at the bottom 

wp-content/plugin

This is space taken up by essential plugins to make the site work such as WordFence (security, complianz cookie manager, Matomo, etc)

Media Uploads 

This is the total of the images, files and anything in your Document library.  

wp-includes & wp-admin

This is space taken up by core WordPress files that are needed to make the backend work.

wp-content/themes

This is the space taken up by the design of the site, including the layout tools, header, footer etc

Free Space

This is the space you have left available.

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