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Media Library Assistant

Enhances the Media Library; powerful gallery and list shortcodes, full taxonomy support, IPTC/EXIF/XMP/PDF processing, bulk/quick edit.

By David Lingren·Tags·Free
4.8(198 reviews)
·70K+ active installs·Updated 5 days ago
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As of April 2026, Media Library Assistant is a WordPress tags plugin with 70K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 198 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.6M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.7+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are up 791% this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: Meta Tag Manager.

4.8/5198 reviews
70K+active installs
100%resolved
14 yearssince 2012

Overview

The Media Library Assistant provides several enhancements for managing the Media Library, including:

  • Complete support for ALL taxonomies, including the standard Categories and Tags, your custom taxonomies and the Assistant’s pre-defined Att. Categories and Att. Tags. You can add taxonomy columns to the Media/Assistant listing, filter on any taxonomy, assign terms and list the attachments for a term.

  • The Media/Assistant admin screen displays more attachment information such as parent information, file URL and image metadata. Provides many more listing columns (more than 20) to choose from. You can also add columns to display custom field values.

  • Provides additional view filters for MIME types and taxonomies, and features to compose custom views of your own.

  • Inline “Bulk…

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Ratings & Reviews

4.8198 reviews
5 ★
182
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8
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2
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1
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5

Recent Reviews

Lifesaver for big sites
by pawblank·1 month ago

Media manager is a lifesaver for big sites. Sorting and folder-like organization makes content work much faster

Security Risk: Server Blacklisting
by alltdl·3 months ago·2 replies

Following a WordPress core update to 6.9, WordFence flagged this plugin for a known security vulnerability. Within just a few hours, and before I could disable or update it, my VPS IP was blacklisted by Spamhaus (CSS) due to outbound spam activity. This led to my provider automatically suspending my account.

This is an actively exploitable vulnerability with immediate, real-world consequences, rather than just a theoretical concern. Since the site showed no obvious signs of being compromised, the plugin is especially dangerous.

I recommend avoiding this plugin unless you are prepared to monitor it constantly and can disable it the moment a security warning appears. Right now, the risk clearly outweighs the benefit.

Good one!
by Techtivus·6 months ago

Just what we needed for our sites!

The most useful tool
by pkolka·7 months ago

The media manager is easily one of the most useful tools for my daily workflow. Folders, sorting, and previews all work flawlessly it’s like having a real file system inside WordPress.

Very nice media manager!
by theclov·10 months ago

The media manager plugin is a huge help when organizing files in large projects. Being able to assign folders and quickly sort through uploads saves me hours each week. A must-have for anyone managing a content-heavy site!

Download Trends

Today: 844Yesterday: 1KThis week: 24KPeriod total: 388K

Compatibility

WordPress4.7+ requiredTested up to 7.0
PHP7.4+ required

Version Adoption

Other
53.6%
v3.34
33.1%
v3.30
7.7%
v3.13
5.2%
v3.35
0.5%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

3.35

  • New: Several enhancements to the Media/Assistant “Thumbnail” (generation) Bulk action. More information in the “Thumbnail Generation” tab of the pulldown Help menu and the new Settings/Media Library Assistant “Thumbnail Generation Support” Documentation section.
  • Fix: IMPORTANT: For all five MLA shortcodes, a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) security risk has been mitigated.
  • Fix: IMPORTANT: For the [mla_custom_list] shortcode, an SQL Injection security risk has been mitigated.
  • Fix: IMPORTANT: For WP 7.0, several updates to the MLA enhancements for the Media Manager Modal (popup) Window and Media/Library Grid view have been made.
  • Fix: A defect handling REGEX named subpatterns in mapping rule templates has been corrected.

…and 2 more changes

View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

David LingrenDavid Lingren
Plugin Info
Version
3.35
Last Updated
Mar 30, 2026
WP Requires
4.7+
Tested Up To
7.0
PHP Requires
7.4+
Active Installs
70K+
Downloads
2.6M+
Added
Aug 13, 2012
Business
Free

Tags

tagsmediaimagescategoriesmedia library

Developer

D
David Lingren
1 plugins0.1M+ total installs
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