cybio

<p>Gallery Widget is a simple plugin that let you show the latest/random images of<br />
the wordpress media gallery inside a widget, directly in your templates (it is<br />
possible to choose some categories to be included/excluded) or in posts/pages<br />
using a shortcode (see faq on how to use them).</p>
<p>For more information on how to use this plugin see <a href="http://blog.splash.de/plugins/" rel="nofollow ugc">splash 😉</a></p>
<p>Please report bugs and/or feature-request to the ticket-system: <a href="http://trac.splash.de/gallerywidget" rel="nofollow ugc">TicketSystem/Wiki</a>.<br />
For Support, please use the <a href="http://board.splash.de/forumdisplay.php?f=102" rel="nofollow ugc">forum</a>.<br />
Latest development news: <a href="http://twitter.com/cybiox9" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a>.</p>


Gallery Widget

Simple widget to show the latest/random images of the WordPress media library as a Widget, using a shortcode or directly with a php-function.

John James Jacoby

Stuttter

<p>Add categories to media & attachments.</p>
<h4>Main Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Control media categories the same way as post categories.</li>
<li>Filter the Media Library by category, in both the list and grid views.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Also checkout</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-chosen/" title="Make long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly." rel="ugc">WP Chosen</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-term-order/" title="Sort taxonomy terms, your way." rel="ugc">WP Term Order</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-term-authors/" title="Authors for categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms." rel="ugc">WP Term Authors</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-term-colors/" title="Pretty colors for categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms." rel="ugc">WP Term Colors</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-term-icons/" title="Pretty icons for categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms." rel="ugc">WP Term Icons</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-term-visibility/" title="Visibilities for categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms." rel="ugc">WP Term Visibility</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-groups/" title="Group users together with taxonomies & terms." rel="ugc">WP User Groups</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-activity/" title="The best way to log activity in WordPress." rel="ugc">WP User Activity</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-avatars/" title="Allow users to upload avatars or choose them from your media library." rel="ugc">WP User Avatars</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-profiles/" title="A sophisticated way to edit users in WordPress." rel="ugc">WP User Profiles</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-signups/" title="A sophisticated way to edit users in WordPress." rel="ugc">WP User Signups</a></li>
</ul>


WP Media Categories

Everything about this plugin feels native to WordPress. Filtering your view within the Media Library works exactly how you would expect if you're familiar with filtering posts by category. I also appreciate that the terms are stored in the database in a way that is consistent with all other taxonomies. Great plugin with a singular purpose.



Simple, elegant solution for media management

As a proof of concept it does work, but user has type categories manually upon file upload and there is no category filtering in media insertion dialog, which kind'a would be the point of having categories.

When you need media "folders", like for images or photos, this is the plugin. Works out of the box.

Let's a developer add tax queries, as for post. Then very powerful.

Gallery Widget vs WP Media Categories