Felix Arntz

<p>The plugin adds two taxonomies to the WordPress media library which are then available to categorize and tag your attachments. By default, these taxonomies, although sharing the same names and behavior, are separate from the default post taxonomies, but this can easily be changed if desired.</p>
<p>The plugin follows WordPress Core principles and offers a lightweight alternative to similar approaches which often tend to be incredibly flexible, but at the same time complicated and bloated. And if you have a little knowledge of code, you should be able to adjust the plugin exactly to your needs if the default configuration doesn’t satisfy you.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Adds categories and tags to the Media Library (independent from the regular post categories and tags)</li>
<li>Inserts filter dropdowns for attachment taxonomies into the media toolbar and media modal</li>
<li>Allows to pick taxonomy terms for attachments from within the Attachment Selection & Edit modals</li>
<li>Adds a setting for the default attachment category</li>
<li>Enhances the <code>[gallery]</code> shortcode so that images of a specific attachment taxonomy can be included automatically</li>
</ul>
<h4>Quality attributes</h4>
<ul>
<li>Lightweight plugin following WordPress Core principles</li>
<li>“Decisions, not Options”</li>
<li>Can easily be used as a must-use plugin</li>
<li>Provides a flexible API to add other attachment taxonomies or disable the existing ones for developers</li>
<li>Provides an easy-to-use <code>has_default</code> argument that can be used when registering an attachment taxonomy in order to automatically add a setting for the default taxonomy term</li>
</ul>


Attachment Taxonomies

Works perfect!

Now this is a piece of art!  No bloat, no hassle.  Well done Felix!

Piece of Art

This plugin adds categories and tags to the WordPress media library - lightweight and developer-friendly.

Amaury Balmer

<p>WordPress 3.1 and up allow for reasonably simple custom taxonomy, this plugin makes it even simpler, removing the need for you to write <em>any</em> code.</p>
<p>Add support for taxonomy with or without hierarchical. Choose the selector type for write post.</p>
<p>Allow to add taxonomy to any objects registered on your installation. This plugin can be coupled with the plugin ACF to a new term meta database that allow to create on fly any field need for the taxonomy. For example, for a “Number” taxonomy, you can add fields : number ID, date of parution, screenshot, etc !</p>
<p>This plugin is developped on WordPress 3.5, with the constant WP_DEBUG to TRUE.</p>
<p>This plugin allows you to add taxonomy just by giving them a name and somes options in the backend. It then creates the taxonomy for you, takes care of the URL rewrites, provides a widget you can use to display a “taxonomy cloud” or a list of all the stuff in there, and it allows you to show the taxonomy contents at the end of posts and excerpts as well.<br />
To boot, it comes with a set of template tags for those who don’t mind adapting their own theme.</p>
<p>For full info go the <a href="https://github.com/herewithme/simple-taxonomy" rel="nofollow ugc">Simple Taxonomy</a> page.</p>


Simple Taxonomy

WordPress 3.1 and up allow for reasonably simple custom taxonomy, this plugin makes it even simpler, removing the need for you to write any code.

Attachment Taxonomies vs Simple Taxonomy