KooKoa

<p>KooKoa Folders adds a folder sidebar to the WordPress Media Library. You can create folders, nest them into subfolders, and move files around with drag and drop. It also ships with unlimited smart folders that auto-populate from rules you define — file type, size, date, dimensions, tags, and more — so the library stays tidy as it grows.</p>
<p>👉 <a href="https://demo.kookoa.com/live" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>TRY THE LIVE DEMO</strong></a> ☝️ — Instant access, no account needed</p>
<p>Folders are virtual. They are stored as a private WordPress taxonomy and attached to your media items, so your files on disk are never moved and existing image URLs keep working. If you deactivate the plugin your Media Library keeps running as if nothing happened.</p>
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<h4>🗂️ Organization</h4>
<ul>
<li>Unlimited folders and subfolders in the Media Library</li>
<li>Drag and drop attachments between folders</li>
<li>Auto-assign new uploads to the folder you are currently in</li>
<li>Item count per folder</li>
<li>Folder filter on the Media Library list view</li>
</ul>
<h4>⚡ Smart Folders</h4>
<ul>
<li>Unlimited smart (rule-based) folders, auto-populated as your Media Library grows</li>
<li>Combine multiple rules per folder with AND logic — file type, size, dimensions, date, author, status, search, tags, and more</li>
<li>Live counts cached per folder, refreshed automatically when items change</li>
<li>Pin, lock, color and icon support — same UX as regular folders</li>
</ul>
<h4>🌈 Cosmetics</h4>
<ul>
<li>Custom folder colors</li>
<li>Custom folder icons with emoji picker</li>
<li>Pin folders to the top of the tree</li>
<li>Lock folders to prevent accidental rename, color, icon or delete</li>
</ul>
<h4>🔍 Navigation</h4>
<ul>
<li>Resizable, sticky folder sidebar</li>
<li>Search and sort the folder tree</li>
<li>Breadcrumb bar and subfolder cards</li>
<li>Smart Startup Folder — open the Media Library on the last folder you used, or on a fixed folder of your choice</li>
<li>Keyboard shortcuts for common actions</li>
<li>Mobile responsive layout</li>
</ul>
<h4>🔄 Bulk operations</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bulk Organize mode — select multiple attachments and move them into a folder in one click</li>
<li>Download a folder (and all its subfolders) as a single ZIP archive</li>
<li>Download just the selected items as a ZIP, straight from the Bulk Organize toolbar</li>
<li>Upload a folder structure from your computer and have the subfolders recreated automatically</li>
<li>Export and import the folder structure as JSON, with Merge or Replace modes</li>
</ul>
<h4>📊 Insights</h4>
<ul>
<li>Hover tooltip on media items showing filename, size and dimensions</li>
<li>Optional EXIF fields in the hover tooltip — camera, aperture, shutter, ISO, focal length</li>
</ul>
<h4>🛡️ Access control</h4>
<ul>
<li>Role-based access — pick which WordPress roles can use the folder sidebar</li>
</ul>
<h4>🔒 Privacy</h4>
<ul>
<li>Self-hosted font, no Google Fonts call</li>
<li>No external scripts, no trackers, no analytics</li>
<li>No frontend assets are loaded for regular visitors; builder/editor integrations load only when an authorized editor opens a supported visual builder</li>
</ul>
<h4>✅ Works with</h4>
<p>The folder sidebar is available inside:</p>
<ul>
<li>The WordPress Media Library list and grid views</li>
<li>The block editor (Gutenberg) media modal</li>
<li>The Classic Editor media modal</li>
<li>Divi 4 and 5 media modals</li>
<li>Elementor media modal</li>
<li>WooCommerce product gallery media modal</li>
</ul>
<h4>🔁 Migrate from other folder plugins</h4>
<p>Already using another folder plugin? Switch in one click. KooKoa Folders detects existing folder structures directly from your database and rebuilds the full tree inside the KooKoa sidebar — with file assignments intact, no JSON export, no rebuilding from scratch.</p>
<p>Supported sources:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>FileBird</strong> (Ninja Team)</li>
<li><strong>Folders</strong> (Premio)</li>
<li><strong>Real Media Library</strong> (devowl.io)</li>
</ul>
<p>A subtle hint inside the Media Library surfaces the importer when one of these plugins is detected, so you find it without going hunting through Settings. After a successful import, the source plugin can be deactivated with one button — your KooKoa folder structure keeps living independently.</p>
<h4>🚀🚀🚀 Pro add-on</h4>
<p>👉 <a href="https://demo.kookoa.com/live" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>TRY THE LIVE DEMO</strong></a> ☝️</p>
<p>🚀 Folders for Posts & Pages<br />
🚀 Folders for Custom Post Types<br />
🚀 AI Image Generator (text-to-image)<br />
🚀 AI Image Editor (text-guided edits)<br />
🚀 WebP / AVIF Converter<br />
🚀 Replace Media (same name or rename)<br />
🚀 Watermark Images (logo or text)<br />
🚀 Clean Unused Media<br />
🚀 Find Duplicate Media (byte-exact + perceptual hash)<br />
🚀 Image Editor (crop, rotate, filters, resize)<br />
🚀 Media Stats Dashboard<br />
🚀 Priority Email Support</p>
<h4>💻 Use cases</h4>
<p>A few real-world setups where KooKoa Folders earns its keep:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Bloggers and content writers</strong> — keep every blog image, post screenshot, hero photo, video clip and audio file inside dedicated media folders. Drag and drop assets between folders, filter the media library by folder, and find the right image for tomorrow’s article in seconds instead of scrolling past 2,000 thumbnails.</li>
<li><strong>WordPress photographers and photo studios</strong> — split your media library by shoot type (portraits, weddings, real estate, landscapes, nature, family), by client, by year, or by location. Pin your active project to the top, lock the archive against accidental edits, and let smart folders auto-collect images by date, file size or alt text.</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce shop owners and e-commerce managers</strong> — organize product images into folders that mirror your catalog (apparel, footwear, accessories, electronics). Drag and drop new product photos straight from upload into the right SKU folder, and use smart folders to auto-group every PNG, JPEG or WebP above a certain size for quality audits.</li>
<li><strong>Web designers, web developers and freelance agencies</strong> — separate site assets per project, per page section or per client (logos, mockups, illustrations, icon sets, screenshots). Folder colors and custom icons turn the media library into a navigable workspace even when you sit on thousands of files.</li>
<li><strong>Online publishers, magazines and editors</strong> — file every image per issue, per article, per author or per topic. Smart folders auto-collect everything uploaded this week, this month, or by a specific contributor — no manual sorting needed.</li>
<li><strong>Real estate, hospitality and listings sites</strong> — one folder per property or per location, subfolders per room, view or photoshoot. Bulk upload an entire shoot, drag the keepers into the listing folder, and skip the rest. Color-code your busiest property folders so the right one stands out at a glance.</li>
<li><strong>Course creators and membership sites</strong> — split lesson screenshots, video thumbnails and downloadable PDFs into folders per course, per module or per lesson. Find the right cover image without scrolling past fifty unrelated lessons.</li>
<li><strong>Marketing agencies, design studios and creative teams</strong> — one WordPress Media Library, many clients. A folder per brand keeps work tidy, role-based access keeps clients out of each other’s assets, and the export/import tool ships a folder tree to a new project in a single JSON file.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Open Source Libraries</h3>
<p>KooKoa Folders is built on top of these open source projects. Thanks to their authors for sharing their work with the community.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><strong>jsTree</strong> v3.3.16 by Ivan Bozhanov (vakata) — MIT License<br />
Website: https://www.jstree.com/</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Share Tech Mono</strong> by Carrois Apostrophe (Ralph du Carrois) — SIL Open Font License 1.1 — https://www.carrois.com/<br />
Self-hosted monospace font used throughout the interface. No Google Fonts CDN.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>For everything else, KooKoa Folders uses the libraries that already ship with WordPress core — <strong>jQuery</strong>, <strong>jQuery UI</strong> (Draggable, Droppable, Sortable) and <strong>Dashicons</strong> — instead of bundling its own copies.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>KooKoa Folders is designed and developed by Adamo Lussana — https://www.kookoa.com</p>


KooKoa Folders – Media Library Folders & File Organizer

Organize the WordPress Media Library with unlimited media folders, subfolders, Smart Folders, and a lightweight file manager.

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<p><strong>Handy for those who need to manage a lot of media files.</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://wpuxsolutions.com/support" rel="nofollow ugc">Known Issues :: Support</a> | <a href="https://wpuxsolutions.com/documents/enhanced-media-library/changelog" rel="nofollow ugc">Changelog</a> | <a href="https://wpuxsolutions.com/documents/enhanced-media-library" rel="nofollow ugc">Usage Guide :: How to</a> | <a href="https://wpuxsolutions.com/documents/enhanced-media-library/faqs-2" rel="nofollow ugc">FAQs</a> | <a href="https://wpuxsolutions.com/plugins/enhanced-media-library-pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Premium Features</a></p>
<h3>Officially! <strong>EML 3.0 Early Beta</strong> is available for testing</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wpuxsolutions.com/plugins/enhanced-media-library-3-0" rel="nofollow ugc">Give it a try</a>, share feedback, report bugs, and <strong>help the developer</strong> to deliver it promptly!</li>
</ul>
<h3>Categorize by Anything!</h3>
<ul>
<li>Unlimited <strong>categories & tags</strong> for media items</li>
<li>Unlimited <strong>custom taxonomies:</strong> create in a few clicks</li>
<li>Unlimited <strong>third-party taxonomies:</strong> assign to the media library</li>
</ul>
<h3>Configurable Filters</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Show / hide</strong> data, author, taxonomy filters</li>
<li><strong>Per taxonomy</strong> filters</li>
<li><strong>Configurable outcome</strong> of the filtering: include / exclude child categories</li>
</ul>
<h3>Enhanced Media Library</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Show captions:</strong> title, filename, or caption field for each media item</li>
<li><strong>Bulk selection:</strong> no special mode anymore, faster editing</li>
<li><strong>Drag’n’Drop re-order</strong> right in the media library</li>
<li><strong>Infinite scroll</strong> and manageable loads per page options</li>
</ul>
<h3>Dynamic Galleries / Playlists</h3>
<p>Additional parameters for the [gallery] and [playlist] shortcodes:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>media_category</code> or any other taxonomy</li>
<li><code>monthnum</code></li>
<li><code>year</code></li>
<li><code>limit</code> of media items to show</li>
</ul>
<h3>MIME Types Management</h3>
<p>Add or remove file types, allow or disallow uploading. The plugin incorporates a file type into media filters if you wish.</p>
<h3>Feels Native to WordPress</h3>
<p>We spent hours to make Enhanced Media Library operates as though it were native WordPress functionality. All plugin features are incorporated into WordPress UI seamlessly.</p>
<h3>Developer-Friendly</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Core hooks just work</strong> for media taxonomies and media items</li>
<li><strong>All taxonomies supported:</strong> custom and code-registered</li>
<li><strong>REST API supported</strong> out of the box</li>
<li><strong>No custom tables</strong> in the database</li>
<li><strong>Deactivation makes no harm to data:</strong> all media items and taxonomies remain after deactivation</li>
</ul>
<h3>Export / Import / Restore Plugin Settings</h3>
<p>If you need to move your media library to another website you should export and import WordPress content with WordPress built-in export/import. But to make the Enhanced Media Library work on the new site with the same settings you are provided with the export/import feature.</p>
<h3>Multisite compatible</h3>
<p>Network activate the plugin and choose which options will be available to your admins. In the PRO version, the license key should be activated once for the whole network.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.wpuxsolutions.com/plugins/enhanced-media-library" rel="nofollow ugc">More about the basic version on wpUXsolutions.com</a></p>
<h3>Enhanced Media Library PRO</h3>
<p>Additional comfort and even more convenient way to organize WordPress media library:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Unlimited & Super-Fast</strong> Bulk Edit</li>
<li><strong>User-friendly</strong> dynamic galleries / playlists: all options set with dropdowns and checkboxes, no “coding”</li>
<li><strong>Advanced search:</strong> filter media items by just typing the first letters of its name in the search field</li>
<li><strong>Auto-Categorize</strong> for post media items</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://www.wpuxsolutions.com/plugins/enhanced-media-library-pro" rel="nofollow ugc">More about the premium version on wpUXsolutions.com</a></p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>Support is free for both versions of the plugin. “PRO”-users do not have priority. We do our best to respond in 24 hours if not sooner.</p>
<h3>Compatible with the Plugins:</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/" rel="ugc">Advanced Custom Fields</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/" rel="ugc">WooCommerce</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/foogallery/" rel="ugc">FooGallery</a> – <a href="https://wpuxsolutions.com/documents/enhanced-media-library/how-to-create-a-dynamic-foogallery" rel="nofollow ugc">How to use?</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/anything-order-by-terms/" rel="ugc">Anything Order by Terms</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-filter/" rel="ugc">Search & Filter</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/document-gallery/" rel="ugc">Document Gallery</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/" rel="ugc">Jetpack Carousel</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/" rel="ugc">Jetpack Tiled Galleries</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-lightbox/" rel="ugc">Simple Lightbox</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/justified-gallery/" rel="ugc">Justified Gallery</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/meow-gallery/" rel="ugc">Meow Gallery</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/meow-lightbox/" rel="ugc">Meow Lightbox</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/ml-slider/" rel="ugc">MetaSlider</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/responsive-lightbox/" rel="ugc">Responsive Lightbox & Gallery</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/tiny-compress-images/" rel="ugc">Compress JPEG & PNG Images</a> (TinyPNG)</li>
</ul>
<p>Please let us know if you find any issue with the plugins from the list above or others.</p>
<h3>Incompatibility</h3>
<p>Please notice that you use Enhanced Media Library with other plugins that add media categories, media folders, or manage MIME Types at your own risk. We cannot guarantee their compatibility because of the different approaches to the same functionality. We do not recommend using other media library (folder) plugin at the same time with the Enhanced Media Library. Please choose the one you prefer.</p>
<h3>Useful Links</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wpuxsolutions.com/plugins/enhanced-media-library" rel="nofollow ugc">Basic version: more details</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wpuxsolutions.com/plugins/enhanced-media-library-pro" rel="nofollow ugc">PRO version: more details</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.wpuxsolutions.com/documents/enhanced-media-library" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.wpuxsolutions.com/documents/enhanced-media-library/faqs" rel="nofollow ugc">FAQs</a></li>
</ul>


Enhanced Media Library

This plugin would be handy for those who need to manage a lot of media files.

KooKoa Folders – Media Library Folders & File Organizer vs Enhanced Media Library