Media Library Assistant vs FileBird – WordPress Media Library Folders & File Manager

The #1 WordPress plugin to organize your media library with folders. ✨NEW: Organize WordPress pages and posts too, with the same drag-and-drop folders you already use for media. TEST DRIVE | GO PRO (Lifetime License) 💎 FileBird transforms your WordPress media library with intuitive folder organization, smooth drag & drop, and smart sorting. Locate images faster, easily insert them into Gutenberg blocks, quickly identify and remove unused files. The free version allows you to create unlimited main folders and subfolders. 📌 FileBird Cloud Extension | Compare FileBird Free vs Pro ⚡️ FEATURES FileBird allows you to create virtual folders to categorize your WordPress media file uploads. So when you move files and folders around, it won’t break the permalinks to your images in the page/post content. With FileBird, you can save time on WP media management, search for any files & folders, sort them out, add product image gallery, download/export media folders, etc. That’s a great way to boost your admin workflow and productivity. Folder Tree Themes (PRO) Instead of the traditional gray shade of folder icon, now you can transform your “Folderella” into Dropbox theme or Windows 11 styling. Download Media Folder (PRO) Export an entire media folder, including its subfolders and files, in a single ZIP file. Keep the same folder structure. Backup categorized media files. Smart Startup Folder Choose a specific folder or previously opened folder upon startup. Quickly get back to work. Save more time. File Location Locate any file in its details modal and easily change its containing folder. Friendly User Interface Drag and drop to upload or bulk move files into folders. Drag and drop to arrange folders and subfolders. Smart Context Menu Right-click on any FileBird folder to quickly create a subfolder, rename, set color, cut, paste, or delete it just the way you do on your computer. Full Control In One Toolbar FileBird’s collapsible sidebar provides you with ultimate control over all WordPress media library folders. Painless Migration Import and seamlessly synchronize media category/folder structure from Enhanced Media Library, WP Media Folder by JoomUnited, WordPress Media Library Folders by Max Foundry, Real Media Library, and HappyFiles. Export Folders Organization One-click to export the whole WP media folder structure so that you can migrate it to your live sites or simply keep a backup. User Based Folder View Enabling this mode allows admins and other users access to create their own categories/directories. A user can freely manage his/her folders without affecting others’ directory structure. Powerful Search Feature You can sort and search for files and folder names not only in the Media library but also while browsing images through the page/post editor. Various Sort Options (PRO) Go advanced with 2 ways to sort folders and 10 ways to sort files. This is a great time-saver for all busy WordPress admins & webmasters. Sort Files by File Size (PRO) Now you can calculate your attachment size in a single click and sort files by file size. Custom Folder Color (PRO) Right-click on a specific folder to pick a distinct color. This helps differentiate it from numerous folders. Multiple Tree View Styles (PRO) Apart from the hierarchical tree view, you have the option to hide levels from the tree view, too. This flat tree view is very useful for those with a large number of folders. Categorize Pages, Posts, and Custom Post Types (PRO) Easily enable the folder tree to organize your WordPress pages, posts, plugins, WooCommerce coupons, discounts, and other CPTs. Customizable Default File Order Set a way of sorting files alphabetically by ascending/descending the file name, title, date, modified, and author. Bulk-Delete Folders Now, you can bulk-select File Bird folders and delete them in a single click. All those files will be moved to the Uncategorized folder and remain intact. RTL Supported FileBird supports RTL languages including Hebrew, Arabic, etc. Many Languages Supported This plugin supports most popular languages such as English, Spanish, Italian, French, German, Dutch, Hebrew, etc. 🙋‍♂️DID YOU KNOW? That FileBird now comes with an addon to help you create a standalone WordPress document gallery using Gutenberg and FileBird folders? → Be sure to check it out: FileBird Document Library. 👍 HOW DOES FILEBIRD WORK? Are you a WordPress website administrator? Managing a WordPress site means that you’ll be adding tons of multi-media files, such as images, videos, audios, documents, etc., into your WP media library. As a result, your library has to store thousands of files and could become a total mess. WordPress default file name search function is a good thing but it will never match the ease of going directly to a folder. That’s when FileBird comes in to help with managing files in WordPress! This media file manager gives you the ability to easily organize all files by drag and drop between folders. With FileBird in hand, things will be a lot better than they were. The best thing about a folder-based structure is it makes it very easy to find the files you need and saves you so much time. You won’t see WordPress media library not loading, as FileBird smart-loads one folder at a time. 🚀 Tips to manage WP media folders like a pro with FileBird Upload multiple folders and their files directly from your computer to WordPress Create a gallery from folders using the Gutenberg block of FileBird gallery Create WordPress document gallery with shortcode Resize the left sidebar to get an overview of all folders Upload files to a specific folder by choosing the destination folder from the dropdown Easily search for the name of file/folder From the page/post composer, browse files and folders in the FileBird UI While customizing WooCommerce email with a drag-and-drop email builder, you can quickly find the images you need Keep your folders uncluttered by clearing out the old files using the Sort by file size feature Press ESC to exit bulk select mode ⛩️ PREMIUM COMPATIBILITY With FileBird Pro, you will be able to use folders to organize posts, pages, WooCommerce products, coupons, templates, and other custom post types. 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The Media Library Assistant provides several enhancements for managing the Media Library, including: Complete support for ALL taxonomies, including the standard Categories and Tags, your custom taxonomies and the Assistant’s pre-defined Att. Categories and Att. Tags. You can add taxonomy columns to the Media/Assistant listing, filter on any taxonomy, assign terms and list the attachments for a term. The Media/Assistant admin screen displays more attachment information such as parent information, file URL and image metadata. Provides many more listing columns (more than 20) to choose from. You can also add columns to display custom field values. Provides additional view filters for MIME types and taxonomies, and features to compose custom views of your own. Inline “Bulk Edit” and “Quick Edit” areas; update author, parent and custom fields, add, remove or replace taxonomy terms for several attachments at once. Works on the Media/Add New screen as well. Works with the popular Admin Columns plugin for even more Media/Assistant screen customization. IPTC, EXIF (including GPS), XMP and PDF metadata can be assigned to standard WordPress fields, taxonomy terms and custom fields. You can update all existing attachments from the Settings page IPTC/EXIF tab, groups of existing attachments with a Bulk Action or one existing attachment from the Edit Media/Edit Single Item screen. Twelve hooks provided for complete mapping customization from your theme or plugin code. You can view and/or download this PDF document with more information: Mapping File Metadata to WordPress Fields with Media Library Assistant Attachment metadata such as file size, image dimensions and where-used information can be assigned to WordPress custom fields. You can then use the custom fields in your [mla_gallery] display and you can add custom fields as sortable, searchable columns in the Media/Assistant submenu table. You can also modify the WordPress _wp_attachment_metadata contents to suit your needs. Complete control over Post MIME Types, File Upload extensions/MIME Types and file type icon images. Fifty four (54) additional upload types, 112 file type icon images and a searchable list of over 1,500 file extension/MIME type associations. Complete control over Intermediate Image Sizes, used by WordPress to generate and access intermediate image sizes for Media Library items. The [mla_gallery] shortcode, used in a post, page or custom post type to add a gallery of images and/or other Media Library items (such as PDF documents). MLA Gallery is a superset of the WordPress [gallery] shortcode; it is compatible with [gallery] and provides many enhancements. These include: 1) full query and display support for WordPress categories, tags, custom taxonomies and custom fields, 2) support for all post_mime_type values, not just images 3) media Library items need not be “attached” to the post, and 4) control over the styles, markup and content of each gallery using Style and Markup Templates. Twenty-eight hooks are provided for complete gallery customization from your theme or plugin code. The [mla_tag_cloud] shortcode, displays a “cloud” of the “most used” terms in your Media Library where the size of each term is determined by how many times that particular term has been assigned to Media Library items. Twenty-five hooks are provided for complete cloud customization from your theme or plugin code. The [mla_term_list] shortcode, displays hierarchical (and flat) taxonomy terms in list, dropdown control or checklist formats. Twenty hooks are provided for complete list customization from your theme or plugin code. The [mla_custom_list] shortcode, displays flat/cloud lists, dropdown controls and checkbox lists of custom field values. Twenty-seven hooks are provided for complete list customization from your theme or plugin code. The [mla_archive_list] shortcode, displays flat/cloud lists and dropdown controls of date-based values. Twenty hooks are provided for complete list customization from your theme or plugin code. Powerful Content Templates, which let you compose a value from multiple data sources, mix literal text with data values, test for empty values and choose among two or more alternatives or suppress output entirely. Support for WPML and Polylang multi-language CMS plugins. MLA has earned a place on WPML’s List of Recommended Plugins. Works with Photonic Gallery, Justified Image Grid, Jetpack and other plugins, so you can add slideshows, thumbnail strips and special effects to your [mla_gallery] galleries. Works with WordPress Real Media Library: Media Library Folder & File Manager (Lite and Pro) to organize your files into folders, collections and galleries. This combination enhances both the Media/Assistant admin submenu and the [mla_gallery] shortcode. Works with CatFolders – WP Media Folders (Lite and Pro) to categorize media files better and faster. This combination enhances both the Media/Assistant admin submenu and the [mla_gallery] shortcode. Enhanced Search Media box. Search can be extended to the name/slug, ALT text and caption fields. The connector between search terms can be “and” or “or”. Search by attachment ID or Parent ID is supported, and you can search on keywords in the taxonomy terms assigned to Media Library items. Works in the Media Manager Modal Window, too. Taxonomy and custom field support in the ATTACHMENT DETAILS pane of the Media Manager Modal Window and Media/Library Grid view. The Assistant is designed to work like the standard Media Library pages, so the learning curve is short and gentle. Contextual help is provided on every new screen to highlight new features. NOTE: Complete documentation is included in the Documentation tab on the Settings/Media Library Assistant admin screen and the drop-down “Help” content in the admin screens. You can find a stand-alone version of the Documentation on my web site: Media Library Assistant Documentation I do not solicit nor accept personal donations in support of the plugin. WordPress and its global community means a lot to me and I am happy to give something back. If you find the Media Library Assistant plugin useful and would like to support a great cause, consider a tax-deductible donation to our Chateau Seaview Fund at the ALS Network. Every dollar of the fund goes to make the lives of people with ALS, their families and caregivers easier. Thank you! Acknowledgements Media Library Assistant includes many images drawn (with permission) from the Crystal Project Icons, created by Everaldo Coelho, founder of Yellowicon. Many thanks to Aurovrata Venet, Il’ya Karastel and Kristian Adolfsson for testing and advising on the multilingual support features! The Example Plugins The MLA example plugins have been developed to illustrate practical applications that use the hooks MLA provides to enhance the admin-mode screens and front-end content produced by the MLA shortcodes. Most of the examples are drawn from topics in the MLA Support Forum. The Documentation/Example Plugins submenu lets you browse the list of MLA example plugins, install or update them in the Plugins/Installed Plugins area and see which examples you have already installed. To activate, deactivate or delete the plugins you must go to the Plugins/Installed Plugins admin submenu. The Example plugins submenu lists all of the MLA example plugins and identifies those already in the Installed Plugins area. In the submenu: the “Screen Options” dropdown area lets you choose which columns to display and how many items appear on each page the “Help” dropdown area gives you a brief explanation of the submenu content and functions the “Search Plugins” text box lets you filter the display to items containing one or more keywords or phrases bulk and rollover actions are provided to install or update example plugins the table can be sorted by any of the displayed columns Once you have installed an example plugin you can use the WordPress Plugins/Editor submenu to view the source code and (with extreme caution) make small changes to the code. Be very careful if you choose to modify the code! Making changes to active plugins is not recommended. If your changes cause a fatal error, the plugin will be automatically deactivated. It is much safer to download the file(s) or use FTP access to your site to modify the code offline in a more robust HTML/PHP editor. You can use the “Download” rollover action to download a plugin to your local system. Once you have made your modifications you can copy the plugin to a compressed file (ZIP archive) and then upload it to your server with the Plugins/Add New (Upload Plugin) admin submenu. If you do make changes to the example plugin code the best practice is to save the modified file(s) under a different name, so your changes won’t be lost in a future update. If you want to retain the file name, consider changing the version number, e.g. adding 100 to the MLA value, so you can more easily identify the plugins you have modified.