Media Categories
Easily assign categories to media with a clean, simple, and searchable category meta box. Then use the gallery shortcode to display category galleries
3.4(7 reviews)
·300 active installs·Updated 13 years agoAs of April 2026, Media Categories is a WordPress media plugin with 300 active installations and a 3.4/5 rating from 7 reviews. It has been downloaded 30K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.3+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 13 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Safe SVG.
3.4/57 reviews
300active installs
30K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
Allows users to assign categories (or other taxonomy terms) to items in their Media Library with a clean and simplified, searchable version of the standard category meta box.
The “Search Categories” field allows you to narrow your search for a category as you type – this functionality is not native to WordPress but is instead borrowed from Jason Corradino’s
Searchable Categories plugin. If you would like to enable this feature for your posts
download his plugin here
Since WordPress 3.5 now supports attachment taxonomy, the work of adding a metabox to the attachment editor is happening entirely inside of WordPress. This is great, and we now have true metaboxes for taxonomy – they core team has also accepted my patches which caused several headaches for this pl…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.3+ requiredTested up to 3.5.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
1.5
- Updated for WordPress 3.5
- For WordPress 3.5 – Stop showing our custom metabox in the main image editor, let users use the built in metaboxes.
- For WordPress 3.5 – Add customized metabox to the new Media Modal attachment details.
- Bugfix: Gallery Shortcode would only work if a taxonomy and term were provided. This has been solved for all supported version of WordPress.
- Bugfix: The search filter on the metabox – deleting everying in the search filter resulted in no items being found. This has been solved for all supported version of WordPress.
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