Title: Media Usage Tracker
Author: iveyb
Published: <strong>December 9, 2025</strong>
Last modified: December 9, 2025

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# Media Usage Tracker

 By [iveyb](https://profiles.wordpress.org/iveyb/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/oo-media-usage-tracker.1.0.0.zip)

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 * [Reviews](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/oo-media-usage-tracker/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/oo-media-usage-tracker/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/oo-media-usage-tracker/)

## 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.

## FAQ

### 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!

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Very helpful for finally finding those long-lost media files on the site](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-helpful-for-finally-finding-those-long-lost-media-files-on-the-site/)󠁿

 [fazfly](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fazfly/) January 28, 2026

Appreciate this solving one of my long-standing problems. Just have to follow the
directions, and then you’ll be able to see exactly where your images are across 
the whole site. A very nice, sorely needed feature for media management.

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### 󠀁[Invisible Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invisible-plugin-3/)󠁿

 [oraev](https://profiles.wordpress.org/oraev/) January 23, 2026 1 reply

I couldn’t find any information about the data this plugin was supposed to display—
it wasn’t visible anywhere except for its name on the plugins page. I couldn’t find
a link to the plugin in the site’s dashboard, and no new information appeared in
the image information in the media library. The author didn’t provide even the most
basic details about how the plugin should work on the site.

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## Contributors & Developers

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

Contributors

 *   [ iveyb ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/iveyb/)

[Translate “Media Usage Tracker” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/oo-media-usage-tracker)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/oo-media-usage-tracker/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/oo-media-usage-tracker/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/oo-media-usage-tracker/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/oo-media-usage-tracker/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * Original version.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.0**
 *  Last updated **6 months ago**
 *  Active installations **20+**
 *  WordPress version ** 6.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.9.4**
 *  PHP version ** 8.0 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/oo-media-usage-tracker/)
 * Tags
 * [media library](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/media-library/)[media management](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/media-management/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/oo-media-usage-tracker/advanced/)

## Ratings

 3 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ iveyb ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/iveyb/)

## Support

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