Themekraft

Mathieu Viet

Matt Pritchett

<p>BuddyDrive lets BuddyPress users upload, manage, and share files and folders from profiles or groups.</p>
<h3>** 2025 UPDATE **</h3>
<p>BuddyDrive is now actively maintained once again, with ongoing updates for performance, compatibility, and security.</p>
<h3>Let your members upload and share files with ease — right inside your BuddyPress or BuddyBoss community.</h3>
<p>BuddyDrive is the simplest way to give users their own personal file storage — and the ability to share files or folders with friends or the wider community. Whether it’s documents, PDFs, images, or other uploads, BuddyDrive keeps everything organized and accessible inside each user’s profile or groups.<br />
This plugin uses the BuddyPress Attachment API for seamless integration, with support for both member profiles and group pages. It’s great for sharing personal files, collaborating in groups, or offering community downloads.<br />
With the free version of BuddyDrive, users can:</p>
<ul>
<li>Upload and manage their own files</li>
<li>Share files publicly, with friends, or keep them private</li>
<li>Organize uploads into folders</li>
<li>Control visibility directly within the user or group interface</li>
</ul>
<p>BuddyDrive is now under active development with regular updates and ongoing support — rebuilt and maintained by a new team committed to making it fast, secure, and compatible with the latest versions of WordPress, BuddyPress, and BuddyBoss.</p>
<p>BuddyPress is available in English, French, Dutch and Brazilian Portuguese.</p>
<h3>Need more advanced sharing options?</h3>
<p>BuddyDrive Pro adds powerful features like:</p>
<ul>
<li>Password-protected file access</li>
<li>Sharing with specific members or groups</li>
<li>More flexible content visibility settings</li>
</ul>
<p>Perfect for communities, educators, private groups, and creators who want to deliver content securely and selectively.</p>


BuddyDrive

No one from my readers will understand what does it mean. BuddyDrive is more a name for webmasters than users ;o)
But I love this Plugin !!!

I also would like to raname it simple way


	tested latest release, nothing appear on default page (automatically created by setup).

	downgrade to release 2.0.0, bug still remain (so, is a very old bug ... still present, never fixed).



If a bug remain after a very long period and after a new dev, maybe is best to not use this plugin (and is sadness, seems to be an useful plugin).

bugged since v2.0.0

BuddyDrive lets BuddyPress users upload, manage, and share files and folders from profiles or groups.

Per Søderlind

<p>Virtual Media Folders brings virtual folder organization to your WordPress Media Library. Organize your media files into hierarchical folders without moving files on disk—folders are virtual, so your URLs never change.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Virtual Folders</strong> – Create hierarchical folder structures to organize media</li>
<li><strong>Drag & Drop</strong> – Easily move media between folders with drag and drop</li>
<li><strong>Sticky Sidebar</strong> – Folder navigation stays visible while scrolling through media</li>
<li><strong>Gutenberg Integration</strong> – Filter media by folder directly in the block editor</li>
<li><strong>Bulk Actions</strong> – Move multiple media items at once</li>
<li><strong>Keyboard Accessible</strong> – Full keyboard navigation support</li>
<li><strong>Internationalized</strong> – Ready for translation (Norwegian Bokmål included)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Free add-ons</h4>
<p><a href="https://github.com/soderlind/vmfa" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Add-On Manager</strong></a> lets you easily install and manage add-ons that extend Virtual Media Folders with powerful new features:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/soderlind/vmfa-ai-ability" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>AI Ability</strong></a> – Registers MCP tools for AI agents via the WordPress Abilities API.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/soderlind/vmfa-ai-organizer" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>AI Organizer</strong></a> – Uses vision-capable AI models to analyze actual image content and automatically organize your media library into virtual folders. This is add-on functionality requiring an API key from a supported AI service provider, or a local LLM.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/soderlind/vmfa-editorial-workflow" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Editorial Workflow</strong></a> – Role-based folder access, move restrictions, and Inbox workflow.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/soderlind/vmfa-folder-exporter" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Folder Exporter</strong></a> – Export folders (or subtrees) as ZIP archives with optional CSV manifests.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/soderlind/vmfa-media-cleanup" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Media Cleanup</strong></a> – Tools to identify and clean up unused or duplicate media files.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/soderlind/vmfa-migrate" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Migrate</strong></a> – Migrate folder structures from other media folder plugins to Virtual Media Folders.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/soderlind/vmfa-rules-engine" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Rules Engine</strong></a> – Rule-based automatic folder assignment for media uploads, based on metadata, file type, EXIF or IPTC data. </li>
</ul>
<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bA4lf7ynz24?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<h4>How It Works</h4>
<p>Virtual Media Folders uses a custom taxonomy to assign media to folders. This means:</p>
<ul>
<li>Your media files stay exactly where they are on the server</li>
<li>URLs never change when you reorganize</li>
<li>Folders can be nested to create hierarchies</li>
</ul>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<p><strong>Organizing Media</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Go to <strong>Media > Library</strong></li>
<li>Click the folder icon to show the sidebar</li>
<li>Use <strong>+</strong> to create folders</li>
<li>Drag media onto folders to organize / Bulk select media and use the “Move to Folder” action</li>
<li>Click a folder to filter the view</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Settings</strong></p>
<p>Go to <strong>Media > Folder Settings</strong> to configure:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Show “All Media”</strong> – Display “All Media” option in sidebar</li>
<li><strong>Show “Uncategorized”</strong> – Display folder for unassigned media</li>
<li><strong>Jump to folder after move</strong> – Navigate to target folder after moving</li>
<li><strong>Default folder for uploads</strong> – Auto-assign new uploads to a folder</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Block Editor</strong></p>
<p>When inserting media from a block (Image, Gallery, etc.):</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the Media Library modal</li>
<li>Use the folder sidebar to filter</li>
<li>Select your media as usual</li>
</ol>
<h4>Documentation</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/soderlind/virtual-media-folders/blob/main/docs/a11y.md" rel="nofollow ugc">Accessibility</a> – Keyboard navigation and screen reader support</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/soderlind/virtual-media-folders/blob/main/docs/development.md" rel="nofollow ugc">Development</a> – Setup, API reference, hooks, and contributing</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/soderlind/vmfa-ai-ability/blob/main/docs/mcp.md" rel="nofollow ugc">MCP Integration</a> – MCP client configuration, upload flow, and AI agent usage using the <a href="https://github.com/soderlind/vmfa-ai-ability" rel="nofollow ugc">AI Ability</a> add-on</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/soderlind/virtual-media-folders/blob/main/docs/addon-development.md" rel="nofollow ugc">Add-on Development</a> – Guide to building add-on plugins</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
<p>Virtual Media Folders does not:</p>
<ul>
<li>Track users</li>
<li>Send data to external servers</li>
<li>Use cookies</li>
<li>Collect any personal information</li>
</ul>
<p>All data is stored locally in your WordPress database.</p>


Virtual Media Folders

Virtual folder organization and intelligent management for the WordPress Media Library, without altering file locations on disk.

BuddyDrive vs Virtual Media Folders