WP Media Categories

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 86% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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

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1. ★★★★★ shawfactor

   5.7y ago

   Good plugin, does the job,

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2. ★★★★★ Knut Sparhell

   5.8y ago

   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.

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3. ★★★★★ manuelbeck

   6.5y ago

   I can filter in list-/grid-view in the normal media-view. But can’t filter when selecting an image in a page or product.

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4. ★★★★★ visnevskis

   7.6y ago

   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.

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5. ★★★★★ cedric707

   8.0y ago

   Hey John, So many thanks for your work on the free plugins ! There is one thing on that one that would be great in furture updates : Having a dropdown with the existing categories when you upload a media file. For now, there is only a blank category field where you need to type in the slug of the category you want to add to the media (ie you need to know the slug). Cheers !

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6. ★★★★★ snuskin

   9.6y ago

   It would be better if you add possibility to show translation of your plugin. May be something like this load_plugin_textdomain(‘wp-media-categories’, false, basename(dirname(__FILE__)) . ‘/lang/’);

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7. ★★★★★ Kevin Hoffman

   10.8y ago

   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.

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

1. Medium · 4.3 WP Media Categories <= 2.1.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery ↗
   2025-09-26 CVE-2025-60134 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 2.1.0 No patch available

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.4.1

Translated into 9 languages, 7 at 90% or more · development strings

Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-03-20 900+ → 800+ down after 1 days in tier
2. 2026-03-19 800+ → 900+ up after 1 days in tier
3. 2026-03-18 900+ → 800+ down after 2 days in tier
4. 2026-03-16 800+ → 900+ up after 1 days in tier
5. 2026-03-15 900+ → 800+ down after 1 days in tier
6. 2026-03-14 800+ → 900+ up after 10 days in tier
7. 2026-03-04 900+ → 800+ down after 1 days in tier
8. 2026-03-03 800+ → 900+ up after 4 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 Categories 20K+ installs · 4.2★ · 4 shared tags A
• Attachment Taxonomies 1K+ installs · 4.2★ · 3 shared tags A
• Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! 90K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
• Media Library Assistant 70K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A
• Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms 40K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A
• Category Posts Block 40K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A

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WP Media Categories: 800+ active installs, 4.6★ (7 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-media-categories