Shows your free and used server space as a funky Pie Chart in your backend. It also shows a percentage bar in your WordPress dahsboard.
Shows your free and used server space as funky Pie Chart in your backend. Sweet!
Following the success of my server space script for one of my clients, I thought it would be great to use it under WordPress.
This Plugin was inspired by Richard who came to host with me after being on WordPress.com for some years. He really liked to keep track of how much space he has left to upload pictures and I was happy to take on this challenge.
Special thanks again to Rasmus Peters for his amazing PHP Pie Chart Script
Screenshots
This screenshot illustrates the new box you'll get in the Dashboard
Here's what the funky Pie Chart diagramme looks like. In the admin screen you'll be able to enter your total available space. It also shows how big your databse is.
What’s required server side for this plugin to run?
Since I’m using shell commands to count the files you’re using in your current directory, this Plugin only works on Linux servers – NOT on Windows servers.
For the Pie Chart display to work, your server needs to have GD 2.0.1 or later installed with JPG Support enabled.
Does this Plugin run on Windoes Servers?
I’m afraid not – you have to be on a Linux server for this to work. I’ve developed and tested it on CentOS / RHEL.
I’ve noticed my Dashboard is slow. What gives?
In order to determine your used disk space ‘live’ and at all times, the server physically counts every file in all your directories every time the Dahsboard or admin screen is called. On larger installations or slow servers this can take some time so you may notice a slight delay upon loading the page. This is normal yet annoying.
To minimise this issue, just close the dahsboard window using the little arrow in the top right corner. Alternatively, click on Screen Options and disable the widget by unticking the box.
ChangeLog
0.6
- Tweaked Pie Chart background colour to match WordPress 3.8
- Added link to GPL license
0.5
- Fixed Division by Zero bug (thanks Jure!)
- Tweaked some colours to better blend with WordPress Core
- Added MySQL Server Version
0.4
- Fixed dashboard widget display in WordPress 3.2 (Thanks Dan!)
- Replaced hard coded links with dynamic ones
- Updated Folder Structure in accordance with WordPress Best Coding Standards
- Added default unit value for first-time-user (now defaults to GB rather than nothing)
- Changed Donation Link (Buy me a Coffee)
0.3
- Certified WordPress 3.1 readiness.
- Added Unlimited Option: On some hosts (like Hostgator) you’ll get “unlmited” disk space. I’ve amended the plugin so that you can enter 0 or leave the space blank. You’ll always have 100% free space and the pie chart won’t get confused.
0.2
- Added a drop-down menu so you an easily choose if you’d like things displayed in MB or GB.
- Added Database Size Count courtesy of Chris Rabiet’s WP Database Plugin (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/db-size/)
- Added numeric display of space underneath pie charts – like in the dashboard widget.
0.1
Driven by Richard’s suggestion, I’ve used Alex Rabe’s WP Memory Usage Plugin as template and several WordPress tutorials on how to build plugins. Within a few hours, the basis was established. Then I integrated Rasmus Peter’s Pie Chart Script and made it all work together. Code Cleanup followed: renaming functions, hooks, variables, deleting code that’s not needed.
