Media Library Folders

It is the only plugin that allows you to actually use your own, real folders to organize media. If keeping your media organized by folders is important to you, you will want this plugin. The interface is a little clunky, but it works. You can upload media within the mlf system, or upload via ftp and then have mlf rescan so the media will be recognized. You can also move media to different folders, and the associated links within WordPress get updated, which is excellent (there are other plugins that can do that, but it’s built in here, so those are not needed). For these reasons, I highly recommend this plugin!

Now for the “except” …
1. Your folder structure will NOT show up in the add media window, unless you purchase the pro version. The media will be in the usual library, but you will not be able to see the folder structure you create in media library folders.
2. You cannot upload to your folder structure from the “add media” window (while creating a post) – you need to first upload the media in mlf, then add it to your post. Just matters of convenience, but for those reasons I did purchase the pro version, because it adds those features. The pro version also comes with a bunch of other stuff I don’t need at all.
3. The biggest caveat to me is that the pro version ONLY works as long as you have an active license. When the license expires, the extra features are removed. I have never used another plugin that actually quit working after the license term. Typically they keep working, you just don’t get any updates or support. Also, the license expired screen promises a discount when you renew, but there is no discount. Although I probably would have renewed at some point for the updates, the policy of removing features on license expiration is a huge turnoff.

It’s a good plugin, and I haven’t found an alternative yet.

With the latest version of the macOS operating system, it works significantly less well.

There is always a delay before the image is available, sometimes you have to refresh the page so that the media module displays the downloaded image

On a folder most of the time the content is not displayed, you have to click several times on the folder for the content to appear, it disappears almost immediately.

I have only observed this phenomenon on Safari.
So yes, I can try to take another browser, but it is a headache to have to choose another browser for this display problem.

• This topic was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by Queer as You.

incredible: “The ability to insert items from the Media Library Folders user interface is only available in Media Library Pro Version”
you make people try and try until finding this comment in your faq, funny is the who invented this thing seems not having much clew about not hiding essential decision maling points from the triel version, because your plugin isn’t free at all, it’s a cra**y useless trial version which helps nothing without being able to use the files in the created folders, so tell me how some can know if it really works in the paid version, maybe another trickery is awaiting after …

It seemed good at first glance; creating folders is easy and moving existing files to them is a snap. The help video isn’t great, but I didn’t really need it to get that far.

However, I cannot tell if it works like i need it to (I have a lot of media files to organize and wanted to be able to search for them by some sort of organization in stead of year/month as I make pages with them) because the functionality of actually using the folders you created for organizational purposes (like, say, in Page Builder or anywhere else outside of the plugin) is locked behind the Pro version, so I’m going to uninstall it- I don’t really want to buy anything essentially sight unseen.

Difficult to show folders and synch. When uploading photo very often it crashes with an error “0” and I need to upload 1 photo at time… really really painful. User experience really bad with a feeling of not working well to upload photos.