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Categorify – WordPress Media Library Category & File Manager

by frenify · Media

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Organize your WordPress media files in categories via drag and drop.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
47 Health · D
Maintenance 16/100
Rating quality 65/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 59 average across 2,206 Media plugins

1K+

Active installs

≈1.9K estimated

28.6K

Total downloads

since 2021

3.63★

Rating (adjusted)

2.0★ raw · 2 reviews

+79%

300

Downloads · 30d

category median +18%

Removal-risk signals

28/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

59 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 24/100
WP compatibility 68/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 928 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,424 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+79% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

300

now · peak 2.3K

30130d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Categorify · #6184 you Mediamatic · #6112 Folderify · #12290 Real Media Library: · #457

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

301per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

2.5y ago

latest release · vcategorify.1.0.7.5.zip

2

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

categorify.1.0.7.5.zip · 2.5y agocategorify.1.0.0.zip · 4.9y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
1K–2K ≈1.9K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,420 observations

1KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Ratings · 2 reviews

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5★
0 4★
0 3★
0 2★
2 1★
0

Details

Version
1.0.7.5
Last updated
2.5y ago
Added
2021-10-08 · 4 yrs old
Requires WP
6.0.0
Tested up to
6.4.10
Requires PHP
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Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

12 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, 1 still affects the current version.

  1. Medium · 4.3 Categorify <= 1.0.7.5 - Missing Authorization ↗
    2025-09-08 CVE-2025-59005 Missing Authorization Affects <= 1.0.7.5 No patch available
  2. Medium · 4.3 Categorify <= 1.0.7.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via categorifyAjaxDeleteCategory ↗
    2024-02-26 CVE-2024-1907 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 1.0.7.4 Patched in 1.0.7.5
  3. Medium · 4.3 Categorify <= 1.0.7.4 - Missing Authorization in categorifyAjaxAddCategory ↗
    2024-02-26 CVE-2024-0385 Missing Authorization Affects <= 1.0.7.4 Patched in 1.0.7.5
  4. Medium · 4.3 Categorify <= 1.0.7.4 - Missing Authorization in categorifyAjaxUpdateFolderPosition ↗
    2024-02-26 CVE-2024-1653 Missing Authorization Affects <= 1.0.7.4 Patched in 1.0.7.5
  5. Medium · 4.3 Categorify <= 1.0.7.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via categorifyAjaxRenameCategory ↗
    2024-02-26 CVE-2024-1909 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 1.0.7.4 Patched in 1.0.7.5
  6. Medium · 4.3 Categorify <= 1.0.7.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via categorifyAjaxUpdateFolderPosition ↗
    2024-02-26 CVE-2024-1912 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 1.0.7.4 Patched in 1.0.7.5
  7. Medium · 4.3 Categorify <= 1.0.7.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via categorifyAjaxAddCategory ↗
    2024-02-26 CVE-2024-1906 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 1.0.7.4 Patched in 1.0.7.5
  8. Medium · 4.3 Categorify <= 1.0.7.4 - Missing Authorization in categorifyAjaxClearCategory ↗
    2024-02-26 CVE-2024-1652 Missing Authorization Affects <= 1.0.7.4 Patched in 1.0.7.5
  9. Medium · 4.3 Categorify <= 1.0.7.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via categorifyAjaxClearCategory ↗
    2024-02-26 CVE-2024-1910 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 1.0.7.4 Patched in 1.0.7.5
  10. Medium · 4.3 Categorify <= 1.0.7.4 - Missing Authorization in categorifyAjaxDeleteCategory ↗
    2024-02-26 CVE-2024-1649 Missing Authorization Affects <= 1.0.7.4 Patched in 1.0.7.5
  11. Medium · 4.3 Categorify <= 1.0.7.4 - Missing Authorization in categorifyAjaxRenameCategory ↗
    2024-02-26 CVE-2024-1650 Missing Authorization Affects <= 1.0.7.4 Patched in 1.0.7.5
  12. Medium · 6.3 Freemius SDK <= 2.4.2 - Missing Authorization Checks ↗
    2022-03-04 CVE-2022-4974 Missing Authorization Affects < 1.0.5 Patched in 1.0.5

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CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.5

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✕ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✓ No PHP errors
✕ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✕ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Languages

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Translated into 1 language, 1 at 90% or more · development strings

Russian 100%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-03-15 2K+ → 1K+ down after 519 days in tier
  2. 2023-10-13 3K+ → 2K+ down after 229 days in tier
  3. 2023-02-26 2K+ → 3K+ up

Competes with

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