Faster Image Insert
Fully integrates media manager into editing interface, avoid reloading thickbox pop-up, with enhanced features like multi-insert & mass-editing.
3.8(15 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 8 years agoAs of April 2026, Faster Image Insert is a WordPress Fast plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 3.8/5 rating from 15 reviews. It has been downloaded 259K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Flying Pages: Preload Pages for Faster….
3.8/515 reviews
2.0K+active installs
259K+total downloads
17 yearssince 2009
Overview
Faster Image Insert aims to do one thing right:
Moves built-in Media Manager down in a meta-box, right next to main editing panel, so you have full control of the manager: opens it, makes it collapse or hidden from the interface completely.
Best of all, is now you can insert image(s) much faster, and precisely where you want them to be.
- No thickbox, using metabox with zero interface blocking, quite similar to the uploader in WordPress 1.5
- No hacking, default upload interface is not affected, only enhanced.
- Insert multiple images in gallery & library mode, without using shortcode; can also insert images in reversed order, and even control spacing between images.
- Mass info editing, change title/captions in one-shot.
- Smart switches: set default uploader, disable captions.
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Recent Reviews
No longer compatible
by zorzstudios·5 years ago
The plug-in is abandoned. I managed to use it until mid-2020 but further WP updates became incomattable. The plugin no longer shows in the edit screen. Uninstalled, using Media Library Assistant instead.
Excellent Plugin but needs an update
by theSysadminChannel·10 years ago
I have been using this plugin for the past 3 years now and it works great. However, it seems like the plugin author has stopped updating and some things don’t work like they used to.
My only drawback as to why I didn’t give it a 5/5 is because I have a simple problem that when I upload my pics, lets say from 1-10 in ascending order they upload fine. However, When I click “save”, the images are then show in descending order from 10-1. This causes a problem when I want to use the mass edit feature because the images get updated in reverse order. It is not a major deal breaker but it is an inconvenience and time consuming. I have looked around for a solution but have not been able to find one and it seems others were having this problem too. I have also looked in my media.php files to see if there was something there but was unsuccessful with that too.
Mr David Frank would you be so kind to let me know how to fix that? Thank you.
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by Minaya·11 years ago
Great Plugin very useful, thanks for your work
Works great!
·11 years ago
Works great, bulk edit of the caption,title … very useful.
Plugin now breaks WP post edit page. Don’t install!
by Anonymous User 6087458·12 years ago
This was a really useful plugin but it’s now not up to date and it seems there is no chance of that happening. It breaks the WP edit post page causing Javascript errors making post management impossible. Don’t install it!
- This topic was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by Anonymous User 6087458.
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 2.6+ requiredTested up to 3.5.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.4
94.4%
Other
5.6%
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