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Managing WordPress media files shouldn’t be a daily struggle. Media Library Organizer lets you create unlimited media library folders and subfolders to organize WordPress media library content with ease. Use the intuitive drag & drop editor to arrange your files into folders, ZIP and export Media Library folders, set default attributes by filetype, and so much more.
<h3>Why Use Media Library Organizer</h3>
Scale with Unlimited Organization – Whether you’re managing 100 or 100,000 media files, with unlimited Media Library folders and subfolders you can organize at any scale. No more scrolling through thousands of unorganized uploads.
Find Files Instantly – Stop wasting time hunting through endless media files. Create organized folder structures that make sense to you and find any file in seconds.
Work More Professionally – Set default metadata for consistent SEO, customize the Media Library interface, and export Media Library folders for backup.
<h3>Media Library Organizer Features</h3>
Everything you need to organize, manage, and optimize your WordPress Media Library workflow.
🗂️ Core Organization
<ul>
<li>Create unlimited folders and subfolders – Build the folder structure that works for you. No restrictions.</li>
<li>Drag and drop files – Individually or bulk select images and media files, and drag them to any folder</li>
<li>Advanced sorting options – Sort your files by upload date, modified date, ID, author, and more</li>
<li>Default folder – Set the default folder for your uploads</li>
</ul>
🔧 Smart File Management
<ul>
<li>Export Media Library – Export individual folders or all your Media Library files by downloading them in a ZIP file</li>
<li>Set default attributes by file type – Set default image metadata such as alt text, caption, and description. Configurable for each file type separately with support for dynamic tags.</li>
<li>Set display defaults – Set defaults for how your uploads appear on your website (link to, size, alignment)</li>
</ul>
🎨 Interface & Experience
<ul>
<li>Customize the Media Library interface – Edit grid size, number of columns, and customize what is shown in the folder tree</li>
<li>Works with all Media Library views – Search and filter attachments by folders in all views, including Featured Image, Media Library List, Grid, Page Builders, ACF, and more</li>
</ul>
🔄 Migration & Compatibility
<ul>
<li>Import from other plugins – Easily migrate from other WordPress Media Library plugins</li>
<li>Compatible with all your favorite tools – Works with the most popular page builders, themes, and WordPress plugins</li>
</ul>
<h3>Pro Features & Advanced Tools</h3>
Save hours every week with intelligent automation, powerful search tools, and professional media management features designed for serious WordPress users. <a href="https://wpmedialibrary.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">See Pro Features & Pricing →</a>
🔍 Advanced Search & Discovery
<ul>
<li>Advanced search – Search by alt text, filename, caption, or description with match type options</li>
<li>Multi-select filters – Use multiple filters at the same time to narrow down results</li>
</ul>
🔧 Advanced File Management
<ul>
<li>AI image categorization – Automatically categorize your images using AI-powered visual recognition</li>
<li>Smart upload workflow – Show folder selection and metadata editing fields when uploading media files</li>
<li>Default attribute rules – Create rules for applying default attributes automatically</li>
<li>Duplicate files – Duplicate any file with just one click</li>
</ul>
⚙️ Advanced File Operations
<ul>
<li>Upload entire folders – Create folders based on the folder structure inside ZIP files</li>
<li>Auto-extract ZIP files – Automatically extract and organize ZIP file contents</li>
<li>ZIP multiple files – Create archives from selected media files</li>
</ul>
🎯 Professional Media Management
<ul>
<li>EXIF and IPTC editing – Enable editing of professional image metadata</li>
<li>Custom taxonomies – Create additional taxonomies for media files beyond folders</li>
<li>Create dynamic galleries – Extend WordPress’ [gallery] shortcode to build advanced dynamic galleries</li>
</ul>
🖼️ Image Optimization
<ul>
<li>Image optimization – Enable compression and set custom quality levels</li>
<li>WebP conversion – Automatically convert uploaded images to WebP format for better compression</li>
</ul>
<h3>Why Use Media Library Organizer</h3>
From small blogs to enterprise sites, everyone benefits from better media organization. Here’s how different types of websites stay organized:
🛒 E-commerce Stores – Organize product images by category, brand, or collection. 
📰 News & Magazine Sites – Sort photo uploads by date, topic, or photographer. 
🏠 Real Estate Websites – Organize property photos by listing, location, or status. 
📸 Photography & Design Portfolios – Structure galleries by project, client, or shoot date. 
📚 Online Course Creators – Separate videos, PDFs, and images by course or module. 
🏢 Corporate Websites – Manage marketing materials, documents, and assets by department, campaign, or date.
<h3>Support & Documentation</h3>
We’re here to help. Feel free to open a new thread on the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/media-library-organizer/" rel="ugc">Support Forum</a>.
Need help getting started? Check out our <a href="https://docs.themeisle.com/collection/2282-media-library-organizer" rel="nofollow ugc">documentation</a> for guides on every feature.
<h3>Useful Resources</h3>
<ul>
<li>If you like Media Library Organizer, you’re sure to love <a href="https://themeisle.com/wordpress-plugins/" rel="nofollow ugc">our other plugins</a> as well.</li>
<li>Learn more about WordPress on our <a href="https://themeisle.com/blog/" rel="nofollow ugc">blog</a>.</li>
<li>Get the most out of your WordPress website with our helpful <a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmRasCVwuvpSep2MOsIoE0ncO9JE3FcKP" rel="nofollow ugc">YouTube Tutorials</a>.</li>
</ul>

Media Library Organizer – WordPress Media Library Folders & File Manager

Create unlimited Media Library folders and subfolders to organize your files. Export Media Library folders, set default attributes & more.

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<a href="https://www.maxgalleria.com/downloads/media-library-plus-pro/?utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=mlfp&utm_content=first&utm_campaign=firstword" rel="nofollow ugc">Media Library Folders for WordPress</a> creates actual folders in your WordPress Media Library:
<ul>
<li>Actual folders make it easier to <a href="https://maxgalleria.com/organized-wordpress-media-library-folders/?utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=mlfp&utm_content=organize&utm_campaign=organize" rel="nofollow ugc">organize your WordPress media library</a> while reducing server burden.</li>
<li><a href="https://maxgalleria.com/add-organize-media-library-folders/" rel="nofollow ugc">Add and build new Media library folders</a> to label and organize as you wish instead of just month/date.</li>
<li><a href="https://maxgalleria.com/wordpress-media-folders-move-rename-delete-folders/" rel="nofollow ugc">Move, copy, rename and delete files and folders</a> with a nice drag and drop interface</li>
<li>Regenerate thumbnails.</li>
<li>SEO Images to specify ALT and TITLE attributes when uploading.</li>
<li>Sync folders/files when moving or uploading a folder via FTP.</li>
<li>Create a <a href="https://maxgalleria.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">MaxGalleria</a> gallery.</li>
<li>Block direct access for selected media library files</li>
</ul>
MLF adds to and works with the functionality of WordPress Media Library. It does not replace it.
<blockquote>
Just what I was looking for! I use this on ALL my WordPress sites. I don’t know why you wouldn’t. It not only allows you to organize your image files in your WP site, but it also creates logical URL links to your files based on the folders you create and the name of the image file. So great! No more random numbers for image URL’s.
Great for organization and better media! WordPress’s default media folders didn’t work for us on a project with strict requirements on organizing their uploaded files. We had trouble finding a low-impact solution that fulfilled all requirements.
Media Library Plus solved all our issues, and we’ve been using it on a major site with 11 custom post types, hundreds of media files, and tons of other plugins/customizations — zero issues and exactly what we need!
MLP performs beautifully and provides great media management features and functionality! To make matters even better support is extremely fast and responsive to inquiries. Great stuff!
</blockquote>
Block Direct Access
<blockquote>
Media Library Folders now includes Block Direct Access, our pro version feature that prevents unauthorized downloads of proprietary media files: 
 * Protect unlimited media files 
 * Customized no access page 
 * Block Google Search from indexing your media files 
 * Prevent file hotlinking 
 * Restrict media library access 
 * Disable copy and right click 
 * Generate and limit private URLs 
 * Restrict access to private URLs by IP Address
</blockquote>
With these features, site administrators can now block access to viewing or downloading files within the media library. To activate, go to the Block Direct Access tab in Media Library Folders Pro Settings and check the ‘Activate Block Direct Access’ option and click the Update Settings button. This create a folder in the media library, ‘protected-content’ For site that are using Apache, this action will also updates the sites .thaccess file to make the ‘protected-content’ folder inaccessible to internet users.
For those using Nginx or IIS (Windows Server), making the ‘protected-content’ inaccessible requires manually update the site’s configuration:
For Nginx, add these rewrite rules on your server configuration:
rewrite wp-content/uploads/protected-content(\/[A-Za-z0-9_@.\/&+-]+)+.([A-Za-z0-9_@.\/&+-]+)$ “/index.php?mlfp_bdp=$1&block_access=true” last; 
rewrite private/([a-zA-Z0-9-_.]+)$ “/index.php?mlfp_bdp=$1” last;
For IIS, edit or create a web.config file in the root folder of your WordPress site and add these rules:
  <system.webServer> 
     
       
         
        <rule name=”Imported Rule 1″ stopProcessing=”true”> 
          <match url=”private/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$” ignoreCase=”false”/> 
          <action type=”Rewrite” url=”index.php?mlfp_bdp={R:1}” appendQueryString=”false”/> 
         
        <rule name=”Imported Rule 2″ stopProcessing=”true”> 
          <match url=”wp-content/uploads/protected-content(\/[A-Za-z0-9_@.\/&+-]+)+.([A-Za-z0-9_@.\/&+-]+)$” ignoreCase=”false”/> 
          <action type=”Rewrite” url=”index.php?mlfp_bdp={R:1}&block_access=true&file_type={R:2}” appendQueryString=”true”/> 
         
         
       
     
  </system.webServer> 
  <system.web> 
    <compilation debug=”true”/> 
  </system.web>

<h4>Media Library Folders Pro for WordPress</h4>
<a href="https://www.maxgalleria.com/downloads/media-library-plus-pro/?utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=mlfp&utm_content=mlpp&utm_campaign=repo" rel="nofollow ugc">Media Library Folders Pro for WordPress</a> lets you:
<ul>
<li>Select and add images to your posts and pages from the editor through MLFs integration</li>
<li>Organize your <a href="https://maxgalleria.com/downloads/media-library-plus-pro/?utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=mlf&utm_content=mlf&utm_campaign=repo" rel="nofollow ugc">media library folders</a> with categories</li>
<li><a href="https://maxgalleria.com/using-wordpress-media-categories/" rel="nofollow ugc">Enhanced Media Library and Media Library Folders Pro categories</a> are interchangeable</li>
<li>Create new MaxGalleria and NextGEN Galleries directly from your MLF folders</li>
<li>Supports Advanced Custom Fields</li>
<li>Use File Name View Mode for finding images in very large folders</li>
<li>Add images to a WooCommerce product gallery</li>
<li>Multi site supported</li>
</ul>
Using Media Library Folders for WordPress
To get started download and install the Media Library Folders for WordPress plugin. Once Media Library Folders for WordPress is activated you will see Media Library Folders for WordPress in the WordPress dashboard menu. And you are ready to go watch our super helpful <a href="https://maxgalleria.com/media-library-plus/?utm_source=repo&utm_medium=video&utm_content=video&utm_campaign=video" rel="nofollow ugc">intro video</a>!
When you click on Media Library Folders for WordPress it displays the contents of the uploads folder where you will see the level folders such as ‘2016’, ‘2015’. 
We assume your site has the WordPress Media Library setting option ‘Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders’ selected. To view the contents of a folder, click on the folder image. To navigate up in the folder structure click on the links in the Location: breadcrumb string.
Clicking an image will take you to the image attachment details page. If you close that page when you are done you will be in the old media library. Instead click your browser’s go back button twice and you will be taken back to the folder page.
We also have an article on <a href="https://maxgalleria.com/sync-wordpress-media-library-ftp-folders/" rel="nofollow ugc">How to Sync your WordPress Media Library with FTP Folders</a> if you have a large number of images.
Button Bar
The Button Bar provides the main functionality to manage folders and files and is located below the breadcrumbs navigation. When the mouse hovers over a button its function is displayed in the message area below the button bar.
File/Folder Organizing Buttons
Clicking the Add File button displays the upload box.
Here you can select a single file to upload one or more files by dragging the image from the file manager and dropping them in the upload box. Uploaded files will be added to the current folder.
New Folder – Allows you to create a new folder in the current directory. 
Move/Copy Toggle – Set the mode for drag and dropping of files. Individual files can be move or copied to another folder by dragging and dropping the file into the desired folder. Multi files can be selected by click each file’s checkbox. Links in post and pages and feature image links are automatically updated when files are moved. 
Rename – Rename a file in the current directory. Folders cannot be renamed. 
Delete – The delete function let you delete select files. To delete a folder, Right click over a folder and click the menu the appears. A folder must be empty before it can be deleted. 
Select/Unselect – Select or unselect all files in the current directory. 
Sync – Checks the folder on the server for any files not listed in the Media Library and adds them to the Library. 
Sort by Date/Sort by Name – changes the display order of items in the current directory; either by name or by date. 
Search – Users can search for a file or folder by typing in the name of the file in the search box and pressing Enter.
The search results page will display files and/or folders that are similar to the search text. You can click on an image or file to go to its folder or click on a folder view its contents.
In the event that you need to rescan your database’s image and folder data the Media Library Folders for WordPress Reset plugin has been included. To use deactivate Media Library Folders for WordPress, activate Media Library Folders for WordPress Reset and select Media Library Folders for WordPress Reset->Reset Database to erase the folder data. Then deactivate Media Library Folders for WordPress Reset and reactivate Media Library Folders for WordPress. MLF will perform a fresh scan of your database.
Regenerate Thumbnails
To start select one or more images from the main dashboard and click the ‘Regenerate Thumbnails’ button. To regenerate all the thumbnails on your site go the the Regenerate Thumbnails page of MLP and click the ‘Regenerate Thumbnails’ button. MLF will then process all of the images with an process indicator as it works on your job.
Image SEO
When Image SEO is enabled Media Library Folders for WordPress automatically adds ALT and Title attributes with the default settings defined below to all your images as they are uploaded. You can easily override the Image SEO default settings when you are uploading new images.
Working with images and galleries after initial setup
Media Library Folders for WordPress is a stand along plugin that contains an integration with MaxGalleria. With MLF you can add your images to MaxGalleria with a click of a button.

Media Library Folders

Easier file and folder management for WordPress Media Library for Galleries and Albums

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