WP Media Category Management
A plugin to provide bulk category management functionality for media in WordPress sites.
4.7(35 reviews)
·6.0K+ active installs·Updated 3 months agoAs 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.
4.7/535 reviews
6.0K+active installs
243K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
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.
Main Features
- Use post categories or dedicated MCM media categories.
- Control your media categories via admin the same way as post categories.
- Bulk toggle any media taxonomy assignment from Media Library via admin.
- Filter media files in Media Library by your custom taxonomies, both in List and Grid view.
- Use new or existing shortcode to filter the media on galleries in posts and pag…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
A thing that should be a WordPress feature out of the box
by bobf000·1 year ago
When having plenty of media you just need a tool like this. Support is also great. Issues are quickly solved.
Very Useful Tool
by rushoverinc·3 years ago
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!
Life so much better now
by aflorini·3 years ago
This plugin has made managing media so much better for me. Very Grateful.
No filtering when adding an image
by Paolo·4 years ago
It doesn’t show the filter when you try to add an image to a page.
It gives exactly what’s needed
by demurmanis·5 years ago
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!
Download Trends
Today: 29Yesterday: 41This week: 209Period total: 18K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.9+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.5
46.1%
v1.9
25.5%
v2.4
15.2%
Other
6.7%
v2.3
6.6%
Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.5.0
- Tested for WP 6.9
- Fixed some small security issues
- Moved Freemius sdk v2.13.0 to vendor folder
Contributors
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