Description
The plugin will be handy for those who need to manage a lot of media files.
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Categorize by Anything!
- Unlimited categories & tags for media items
- Unlimited custom taxonomies: create in a few clicks
- Unlimited third-party taxonomies: assign to the media library
Configurable Filters
- Show / hide data, author, taxonomy filters
- Per taxonomy filters
- Configurable outcome of the filtering: include / exclude child categories
Enhanced Media Library
- Show captions: title, filename, or caption field for each media item
- Bulk selection: no special mode anymore, faster editing
- Drag’n’Drop re-order right in the media library
- Infinite scroll and manageable loads per page options
Dynamic Galleries / Playlists
Additional parameters for the [gallery] and [playlist] shortcodes:
media_category
or any other taxonomymonthnum
year
limit
of media items to show
MIME Types Management
Add or remove file types, allow or disallow uploading. The plugin incorporates a file type into media filters if you wish.
Feels Native to WordPress
We spent hours to make Enhanced Media Library operates as though it were native WordPress functionality. All plugin features are incorporated into WordPress UI seamlessly.
Developer-Friendly
- Core hooks just work for media taxonomies and media items
- All taxonomies supported: custom and code-registered
- REST API supported out of the box
- No custom tables in the database
- Deactivation makes no harm to data: all media items and taxonomies remain after deactivation
Export / Import / Restore Plugin Settings
If you need to move your media library to another website you should export and import WordPress content with WordPress built-in export/import. But to make the Enhanced Media Library work on the new site with the same settings you are provided with the export/import feature.
Multisite compatible
Network activate the plugin and choose which options will be available to your admins. In the PRO version, the license key should be activated once for the whole network.
More about the basic version on wpUXsolutions.com
Enhanced Media Library PRO
Additional comfort and even more convenient way to organize WordPress media library:
- Unlimited & Super-Fast Bulk Edit
- User-friendly dynamic galleries / playlists: all options set with dropdowns and checkboxes, no “coding”
- Advanced search: filter media items by just typing the first letters of its name in the search field
- Auto-Categorize for post media items
More about the premium version on wpUXsolutions.com
الدعم الفني
Support is free for both versions of the plugin. “PRO”-users do not have priority. We do our best to respond in 24 hours if not sooner.
Compatible with the Plugins:
- Advanced Custom Fields
- WooCommerce
- FooGallery – How to use?
- Anything Order by Terms
- Search & Filter
- Document Gallery
- Jetpack Carousel
- Jetpack Tiled Galleries
- Simple Lightbox
- Justified Gallery
- Meow Gallery
- Meow Lightbox
- Slick Slider
- MetaSlider
- Responsive Lightbox & Gallery
- Compress JPEG & PNG Images (TinyPNG)
Please let us know if you find any issue with the plugins from the list above or others.
Incompatibility
Please notice that you use Enhanced Media Library with other plugins that add media categories, media folders, or manage MIME Types at your own risk. We cannot guarantee their compatibility because of the different approaches to the same functionality. We do not recommend using other media library (folder) plugin at the same time with the Enhanced Media Library. Please choose the one you prefer.
Useful Links
Screenshots
Plugin Settings: WordPress General Media Settings
Plugin Settings: Media Items Order & Enhanced Media Shortcodes
Plugin Settings: Media Taxonomies & Filters
Plugin Settings: MIME Types settings
Plugin Settings: Export, Import, Restore, Cleanup
Media Taxonomies are just usual WordPress taxonomies
Media categories and tags in Nav Menu
Media Library Grid Mode
Media Library List Mode
Editing individual image / media items
Filter-based image gallery
Installation
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Upload plugin folder to ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
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Activate the plugin through
Plugins
menu in WordPress admin -
Adjust plugin’s settings on
Settings > Media
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Enjoy Enhanced Media Library!
FAQ
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Enhanced Media Library” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors“Enhanced Media Library” has been translated into 12 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
Translate “Enhanced Media Library” into your language.
Interested in development?
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Changelog
2.8.9
Release Date – January 09, 2022
Improvements
- Infinite scroll and manageable loads per page options added
- SVG full support ensured
- Taxonomy archive pages improved – are now fully disabled and not indexed if chosen
- Compatibility with SimpLy Gallery Blocks plugin added
2.8.8
Release Date – August 26, 2021
Improvements
- Media Library Grid Mode: “More Details” / “Less Details” button improved to remember the latest choice after page reload
- Better third-party admin menu compatibility
- Compatibility for Impreza theme categories added
2.8.7
Release Date – August 8, 2021
Compatibility
- Enfold theme masonry gallery (latest version) compatibility ensured
Bugfixes
- Edit image wrong link fixed for the Grid mode
2.8.6
Release Date – August 5, 2021
Compatibility
- WordPress 5.8 compatibility ensured
Bugfixes
- A minor ACF-related bug fixed
2.8.5
Release Date – April 10, 2021
Bugfixes
- A critical bug of v2.8.4 fixed (FooGallery related)
- A few minor bugs fixed
2.8.4
Release Date – April 9, 2021
Bugfixes
- A bug with a category checkbox not showing unchecked after deselecting a category fixed
- A bug with taxonomy archive pages are being actually empty instead of 404 fixed
Compatibility
- FooGallery compatibility with EML dynamic galleries added, see how to use Dynamic FooGalleries
2.8.3
Release Date – March 9, 2021
Improvements
- Taxonomy archive pages mechanism improved. When the pages are disabled (404) they are no more accessible by friendly URLs
Compatibility
- WordPress 5.7 compatibility ensured
2.8.2
Release Date – December 9, 2020
Compatibility
- WordPress 5.0 – 5.6 minor compatibility issues resolved
2.8.1
Release Date – October 29, 2020
Bugfixes
- Enfold theme compatibility error fixed
- The bug with ACF’s panel expand fixed
- Minor bugs fixed
Improvements
- Allowed MIME Types upload improved
- Scroll to a selected media item improved (Media Library Grid Mode)
- PRO only: Faster Select All
2.8
Release Date – October 11, 2020
Bugfixes
- Critical WP core compatibility issues fixed
- Gallery and Playlist editing bug fixed
- Image uploading issue fixed
Improvements
- ACF attachment custom fields – better compatibility
- Enfold Theme: added
[av_masonry_gallery]
shortcode compatibility with media category parameters likemedia_category='10'
,tag='21'
- PRO only: The bulk Save Changes button is disabled by default since v2.8 for new plugin installations. All changes are being made on the fly. If you prefer the button, you can enable it at Settings > Media Taxonomies > Bulk Edit > Save Changes button.
Apology
My sincere apologies to everyone hurt by the absence of EML updates last year. The plugin is not abandoned, its development will continue.
2.7.2
Release Date – September 13, 2018
Improvements
- Compatibility with Smush (WP SmushIt) plugin ensured
2.7.1
Release Date – September 11, 2018
v2.7 bugfixes
Bugfixes
[playlist]
broken shortcode bug fixed- “Image not uploading”, “Can’t add featured image”, “Media library right sidebar gone” and possibly some other situations common bug fixed.
- PRO only: hidden filters bug fixed
- A few minor bugs fixed, some minor code improvements made
2.7
Release Date – September 10, 2018
New
- Better workflow for saving categories in both single item and bulk edit: everything is being saved on the fly by default (Save Changes button is now optional)
- Better layout for the Media Library
[gallery]
and[playlist]
shortcodes now understand media category slugs, not only IDs- Multisite “Unify Media Settings over Network” option added
Improvements
- Taxonomy fields are now always at the end of other fields in Attachment Details
- Admin Menu Editor compatibility added
Bugfixes
- Multisite performance issue fixed
- Admin titles for plugin settings pages fixed
- Natural sort order bug – not showing media items with the same titles – fixed
data[caption_type]
not found bug fixed
2.6.4
Release Date – May 23, 2018
Addresses various issues of all previous 2.6.x versions
Bugfixes
- Various multisite bugs fixed, including the user deletion bug
- A bug causing memory leak on websites with thousands of users fixed
- A few bugs causing admin crash in PHP less than 5.5 fixed
- PRO only: a few update issues fixed including persistent update message bug
Improvements
- Elementor CSS-compatibility added (a temporary solution, we are still working on the full compatibility)
2.6
Release Date – May 18, 2018
New
- Filter by authors added
- “Filters to show” option added: show/hide filters by File Type Date, Author, Media Taxonomies
- “Include children” option added: include (or not) media items of child media categories when filtering
- PRO only: Search options added: what to (or not to) include to the default search: Titles, Captions, Descriptions, Authors, Media Taxonomies
- “Show caption” option added for the Grid Mode
- Full multisite support added (documentation is coming)
Improvements
- Natural sort order for galleries and archive pages ensured
- Plugin’s menu improved
- Plugin options are re-grouped to be more consistent
- PRO only: Updating mechanism improved
- Media taxonomies creation mechanism revised to allow non-ASCII characters like Chinese in taxonomy names
- Taxonomy archive pages disabled by default since this version (for new installations)
- A lot of small security improvements
Bugfixes
- Custom order for a taxonomy archive page fixed
- Position of WordPress core messages in the Grid Mode fixed
- A lot of small bugs fixed