Attachment Taxonomies
This plugin adds categories and tags to the WordPress media library - lightweight and developer-friendly.
4.6(10 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 4 months agoAs of April 2026, Attachment Taxonomies is a WordPress tags plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 10 reviews. It has been downloaded 64K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.1+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Downloads are down 6% this week. Top alternative: Media Library Assistant.
4.6/510 reviews
1.0K+active installs
64K+total downloads
10 yearssince 2016
Overview
The plugin adds two taxonomies to the WordPress media library which are then available to categorize and tag your attachments. By default, these taxonomies, although sharing the same names and behavior, are separate from the default post taxonomies, but this can easily be changed if desired.
The plugin follows WordPress Core principles and offers a lightweight alternative to similar approaches which often tend to be incredibly flexible, but at the same time complicated and bloated. And if you have a little knowledge of code, you should be able to adjust the plugin exactly to your needs if the default configuration doesn’t satisfy you.
Features
- Adds categories and tags to the Media Library (independent from the regular post categories and tags)
- Inserts filter dropdowns for attachmen…
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Very helpful, but not perfect
by Martin Sauter·5 years ago
Taxonomies for media items are so basics that I will never understand why they are still not part of the WordPress core. This plugin adds this functionality, and it does it in a clean, very WordPress-like way.
However, there are two issues which bother me in my daily work:
1. Categories can be organised in hierarchies, but these hierarchies are not always visible – sometimes categories are presented as a flat list.
2. The image picker of the Divi page builder does not show these taxonomies (which may be an issue of Divi, not of this plugin).
Great and simple
by OrangeDesign·7 years ago
To rank a large number of image, it’s a great plugin!
Integrates with WordPress
by Dinamicore·8 years ago
This plugin does the job.
The plugin does something other similar plugins dont: it integrates fine with WordPress media library, and displays categories when you want to manage them uploading within other plugins.
This is it.. Make super gallery’s
by sagiet·8 years ago
Looking forward to playing with this possibility. 🙂
tnx for updating the plugin to work width media press.
- This topic was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by sagiet.
Piece of Art
by Daniel Menȝies·8 years ago
Now this is a piece of art! No bloat, no hassle. Well done Felix!
Download Trends
Today: 79Yesterday: 83This week: 373Period total: 26K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.1+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.2
66.9%
v1.1
31.4%
v1.0
1.7%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.2.1
- Fixed: Uploading a new image via the Image block no longer causes a console error when opening the media library afterwards. Props lucymtc.
- Fixed: Ensure the development directory
build-csis no longer included in the plugin ZIP.
Contributors
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