Limiting disk space usage in Wordpress MU
MU allows you to limit the amount of disk quota the blogs can use out of the box. However many site admins may want to be able to change this value per blog and for this an extra plugin is needed.
The plugin that seems to do the job is z-space (WPMUDev page) by Dylan Reeve, based on earlier work by some other developers with which it is backwards compatible. It’s an MU plugin meaning it is auto executed for every blog rather than appearing in the normal plugin dialog. The plugin adds a nice readout to the dashboard giving an indication of space used. It appears to have been fixed by another developer for WPMU 1.2.1 according to the WMPUDev page.
When testing, a word of warning. Make sure you’re doing so as a user rather than the site admin, or the quotas won’t necessarily take effect.
The one drawback to the plugin I can see is that if you upload a file that takes you over the limit, this will be stored even if it takes you significantly over the assigned quota, this also makes the status bar look a bit odd. It would be nice perhaps to be able to disable this or have a maximum threshold over quota that is allowed. Further uploads will be prevented once over quota (the file will not be saved after it has been uploaded). It would be good if the upload button was disabled if the blog was over quota.
It looks like Dylan is also working on a Premium blogs plugin which despite being in the early stages looks really promising. I can personally envisage wanting to have different levels of premium blogs with different levels of disk space / plugins etc.
Rowan :: May.27.2007 :: Web Apps, Wordpress MU :: No Comments »