A small plugin to re-enable infinite scrolling in the Media Library after WordPress 5.8 is released.
As of April 2026, Media Library Enable Infinite Scrolling is a WordPress media plugin with 8.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 25 reviews. It has been downloaded 26K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.7+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2021. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 28% this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: Safe SVG.
After WordPress 5.8 is released, infinite scrolling will be removed by default from the Media Library. See Trac ticket 50105 for the releated changeset and ticket 40330 for the historical context behind the decision.
This plugin, for the short term, is a global re-enabling of infinite scrolling in the Media Library for all users.
A potential future enhancement is to have a per-user setting, letting individual users decide what’s best for them.
Thank you very much for making life easier for us!!!🙂
This plugin works beautifully. No ads or annoying issues. The way WP should have stayed! Thank you!
I will never understand the incompetent decision to remove this in the first place, or at least give us the option to infinite load. I have more than 2k items in my media library and clicking that damn load more buttons is a task in it self.
Thanks for this!
Love this, love this, love this!
Thanks for this solution.
| WordPress | 5.7+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
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