How to get a list of where a module is used

Developers
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In BB Settings the Advanced Usage setting can be enabled to show how many times a module is used.

Can someone tell me where this information comes from?

Ultimately what I’m looking for is a way to find out where the modules are used. It’s just not enough to know that a module is used 10 times in Posts. On a site with 500 posts how am I to find which posts actually use the module? What would be nice is if the modules list had the usage count hot-linked to a listing of exactly where the module is used.

How can I achieve something like this?

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If you are after seeing which modules are used at “page level’ rather than site level.

There is also the old Beaver Lister plugin which still sometimes works well depending on your site.

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Thanks Gareth. I tried that plugin long ago and gave up on it because it really hosed up my site. I’ll give it another try though.

I really wish BB would just improve the modules listing to hotlink where the modules are used. I would think that since they can get the count of usage that where it is used would also be available.

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yeah I hear you!

I do think something like you suggest would generate so many db requests, having to loop through all content to get module information that it would also, as you say “hose” a lot of basic ‘cheap’ webhosts and really impact performance.
Otherwise they would have added that feature I’m sure.