A plugin to provide bulk category management functionality for media in WordPress sites.
As of April 2026, WP Media Category Management is a WordPress bulk toggle plugin with 6.0K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 35 reviews. It has been downloaded 243K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.9+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Downloads are up 13% this week.
This WordPress plugin will ease the management of media categories, including bulk actions.
It supports categories for media using either the existing post categories or a dedicated media_category custom taxonomy.
The plugin supports easy category toggling on the media list page view and also bulk toggling for multiple media at once.
It now also supports post tags and media taxonomies defined by other plugins.
When having plenty of media you just need a tool like this. Support is also great. Issues are quickly solved.
This is a good plugin.
Does what it says it’s going to do. The developer has an open mind and reads feedback. Great features that I can tell a lot of thought went into.
Refreshing, and no annoying things asking me for money. Thanks!
This plugin has made managing media so much better for me. Very Grateful.
It doesn’t show the filter when you try to add an image to a page.
I tried a couple of others, but the simpicity of this plugin is what I’m looking for. The categories are managed by the built-in WP functions, and the picture can be easily categorized either during uploading (on the spot), or afterwards with a simple click.
Bsides, when you insert the media into the webpage, it gives the same categories, so you can easily filter those what’s approrpiate in the current case. I use it within a page builder (Visual Composer) and it works great – a place where even the more hyped category managers fail!
Absolutely recommended!
| WordPress | 5.9+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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