Attachment Taxonomies

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 69% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ Martin Sauter

   5.8y ago

   Taxonomies for media items are so basics that I will never understand why they are still not part of the WordPress core. This plugin adds this functionality, and it does it in a clean, very WordPress-like way. However, there are two issues which bother me in my daily work: 1. Categories can be organised in hierarchies, but these hierarchies are not always visible – sometimes categories are presented as a flat list. 2. The image picker of the Divi page builder does not show these taxonomies (which may be an issue of Divi, not of this plugin).

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2. ★★★★★ OrangeDesign

   8.1y ago

   To rank a large number of image, it’s a great plugin!

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3. ★★★★★ Dinamicore

   8.6y ago

   This plugin does the job. The plugin does something other similar plugins dont: it integrates fine with WordPress media library, and displays categories when you want to manage them uploading within other plugins.

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4. ★★★★★ sagiet

   8.7y ago

   Looking forward to playing with this possibility. 🙂 tnx for updating the plugin to work width media press. This topic was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by sagiet.

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5. ★★★★★ Daniel Menȝies

   9.1y ago

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

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6. ★★★★★ kungfunefar

   9.1y ago

   Ein sehr sehr cooles Plugin, da es so schlicht und nicht so aufgebläht ist wie andere ähnliche Plugins, so wie es beschrieben ist. Eine Kleinigkeit fehlt meiner Meinung noch und zwar die Massenbearbeitung von Attachments, wenn man mehrere Dateien einer Kategorie zuordnen möchte. Aktuell können Kategorien und Schlagwörter nur direkt im Post/ Attachment zugewiesen werden, das ist sehr mühsam wenn man viele Dateien in der Mediathek hat. Und es wäre noch klasse wenn man beim Upload neuer Dateien direkt eine Kategorie zuweisen könnte. THUMBS UP, solche Plugins wünscht man sich !!!

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7. ★★★★★ wellbeingtips

   9.6y ago

   Thanks for this plugin.

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8. ★★★★★ Kaelri

   9.9y ago

   Does exactly what I expect, simply and flawlessly. The only improvement I’d like to see is bulk management, as is available for other post types.

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.3.2

Translated into 5 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-08-09 900+ → 1K+ up after 2 days in tier
2. 2026-08-07 1K+ → 900+ down after 1 days in tier
3. 2026-08-06 900+ → 1K+ up after 104 days in tier
4. 2026-04-24 1K+ → 900+ down after 1 days in tier
5. 2026-04-23 900+ → 1K+ up after 5 days in tier
6. 2026-04-18 1K+ → 900+ down after 2 days in tier
7. 2026-04-16 900+ → 1K+ up after 1 days in tier
8. 2026-04-15 1K+ → 900+ down after 1 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Media Library Assistant 70K+ installs · 4.8★ · 3 shared tags A
• W WP Required Taxonomies – Categories and Tags Mandatory 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags B
• WP Media Categories 800+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags B
• Media Library Categories 20K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A
• P Post Tags and Categories for Pages 20K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags B
• V Visual Term Description Editor 10K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags C

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Attachment Taxonomies: 1K+ active installs, 4.6★ (10 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/attachment-taxonomies