Enhances the Media Library; powerful gallery and list shortcodes, full taxonomy support, IPTC/EXIF/XMP/PDF processing, bulk/quick edit.
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.
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…
Media manager is a lifesaver for big sites. Sorting and folder-like organization makes content work much faster
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.
Just what we needed for our sites!
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.
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!
| WordPress | 4.7+ requiredTested up to 7.0 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
[mla_custom_list] shortcode, an SQL Injection security risk has been mitigated.…and 2 more changes
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