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ZIP Archive Scanner – Free Up Disk Space and Reduce Security Risks
ZIP Archive Scanner – Free Up Disk Space and Reduce Security Risks

ZIP Archive Scanner – Free Up Disk Space and Reduce Security Risks

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Scan report — every archive with its location, size, and risk badge, plus CSV/Markdown export, bulk delete, and one-click actions. High-risk archives in the web root are flagged instantly.

Scan report — every archive with its location, size, and risk badge, plus CSV/Markdown export, bulk delete, and one-click actions. High-risk archives in the web root are flagged instantly.

Find every forgotten ZIP archive on your WordPress site – old backups, migration exports, duplicate plugin bundles – before they eat your disk space or leak your data.

Why ZIP Archive Scanner?

Old backups, migration exports, and duplicate plugin bundles pile up on every WordPress site – and a full-site archive sitting in a public folder can expose your database credentials to anyone who guesses its URL.

ZIP Archive Scanner walks your entire WordPress file system (not just uploads) and gives you a clean report of every ZIP archive it finds, so you can review each one and remove what you no longer need. The scan runs in small, timeout-safe batches, so it works even on huge sites and slow shared hosting.

Free Features

  • Full file system scan: Batched and timeout-safe – works on huge sites and slow shared hosting.
  • Risk assessment: Archives in the web root or with backup-like names (backup.zip, wp.zip, db.zip…) are flagged high risk.
  • Review everything: File name, location, size, and last-modified date in a sortable, searchable table.
  • One-click cleanup: Delete an archive right from the dashboard, or copy its public URL to verify exposure.
  • Export & bulk actions: Export the report as CSV or Markdown and bulk delete unwanted archives.

Pro Version

The Pro version adds Save Result – save scan reports as named snapshots and review them anytime (up to 20 snapshots).

How to Use – Quick Start

  1. Install and activate ZIP Archive Scanner.
  2. Open the plugin’s dashboard in wp-admin.
  3. Click to start a full, timeout-safe scan of your file system.
  4. Review the report – every archive with its location, size, and risk badge.
  5. Delete unwanted archives with one click, or export the report as CSV/Markdown.

Use Cases

  • Post-migration cleanup: Remove leftover migration exports and duplicate plugin bundles.
  • Security review: Spot full-site backups sitting in publicly accessible folders.
  • Disk space recovery: Find and delete large forgotten archives on crowded hosting plans.

Development & Source Code

The plugin’s admin dashboard is a React app compiled with @wordpress/scripts. The complete, uncompiled source is included in this plugin under the src/ directory, together with webpack.config.js and package.json.

To build from source:

  1. The dashboard uses the shared open-source component library bpl-tools (GPL): https://github.com/bPlugins/bpl-tools — clone it as a sibling directory of this plugin (i.e. wp-content/plugins/bpl-tools).
  2. Inside the plugin directory run npm install.
  3. Run npm run build — the compiled files are written to build/.