Title: WP Media Categories
Author: John James Jacoby
Published: <strong>октомври 27, 2015</strong>
Last modified: март 31, 2026

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# WP Media Categories

 By [John James Jacoby](https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnjamesjacoby/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-media-categories.2.1.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://mk.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-media-categories/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://mk.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-media-categories/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://mk.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-media-categories/#installation)
 * [Development](https://mk.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-media-categories/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-media-categories/)

## Description

Add categories to media & attachments.

#### Main Features

 * Control media categories the same way as post categories.
 * Filter the Media Library by category, in both the list and grid views.

#### Also checkout

 * [WP Chosen](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-chosen/)
 * [WP Term Order](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-term-order/)
 * [WP Term Authors](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-term-authors/)
 * [WP Term Colors](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-term-colors/)
 * [WP Term Icons](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-term-icons/)
 * [WP Term Visibility](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-term-visibility/)
 * [WP User Groups](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-groups/)
 * [WP User Activity](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-activity/)
 * [WP User Avatars](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-avatars/)
 * [WP User Profiles](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-profiles/)
 * [WP User Signups](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-signups/)

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * List
 * [[
 * Grid
 * [[
 * Edit
 * [[
 * Modal

## Installation

 * Download and install using the built in WordPress plugin installer.
 * Activate in the “Plugins” area of your admin by clicking the “Activate” link.
 * No further setup or configuration is necessary.

## FAQ

### Where can I get support?

The WordPress support forums: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-media-categories/

### Where can I find documentation?

http://github.com/stuttter/wp-media-categories/

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b386c3be63ad40515532f06f0a3f8fc3c5a9c760da75708f03eff64f35cd66d4?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Works nicely](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-nicely-143/)󠁿

 [shawfactor](https://profiles.wordpress.org/shawfactor/) декември 2, 2020

Good plugin, does the job,

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cd257f389c91f137dab25f343b527123e887135b01921ebb6206e40cfa2eb636?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Great for creating a simple media taxonomy](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-for-creating-a-simple-media-taxonomy/)󠁿

 [Knut Sparhell](https://profiles.wordpress.org/knutsp/) ноември 12, 2020

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.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8659452873fcf36d10ee756f52f3a1d7c79d06c53dd2f76824e6850f9a1966a5?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Good but need enhancements](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-but-need-enhancements/)󠁿

 [manuelbeck](https://profiles.wordpress.org/manuelbeck/) февруари 13, 2020

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.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/fa710ccb32b54e7164b7d855eeec6adeafad3d3324b9b6579a2242a1be2ecadc?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[meh](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meh-45/)󠁿

 [visnevskis](https://profiles.wordpress.org/visnevskis/) јануари 6, 2019

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.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8247117e4341ec758a3e8c2a1a6c04d05606b315c9c0077b225a823908c321ac?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[So many thanks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/so-many-thanks/)󠁿

 [cedric707](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cedric707/) септември 16, 2018

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 !

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1ac77404444d27cb2888e686ca55a896ad1832c076d651896f85ebf36459e0d7?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Good plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-plugin-1746/)󠁿

 [snuskin](https://profiles.wordpress.org/snuskin/) јануари 16, 2017

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/’);

 [ Read all 6 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-media-categories/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“WP Media Categories” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ John James Jacoby ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnjamesjacoby/)
 *   [ Stuttter ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/stuttter/)

“WP Media Categories” has been translated into 7 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-media-categories/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “WP Media Categories” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-media-categories)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-media-categories/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-media-categories/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-media-categories/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-media-categories/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### [2.1.0] – 2020-05-13

 * Improve compatibility with PHP7.2+
 * Improve shortcode implementation

#### [2.0.0] – 2018-06-05

 * Fix bug where count could target wrong taxonomy
 * Fix bug where dropdown widget URL used wrong taxonomy slug

#### [1.1.0] – 2016-09-28

 * Fix “no_category” admin filtering

#### [1.0.1] – 2016-09-06

 * Fix theme-side search interference
 * Improve performance of “no_category” filtering

#### [1.0.0] – 2016-09-06

 * Fix bulk edits
 * Move files into subdirectory for improved mu-plugins support

#### [0.1.1] – 2015-10-28

 * Improve media grid layout

#### [0.1.1] – 2015-10-21

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **2.1.0**
 *  Last updated **3 недели ago**
 *  Active installations **800+**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.4.19**
 *  PHP version ** 7.0 or higher **
 *  Languages
 * [Chinese (Taiwan)](https://tw.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-media-categories/), [Dutch](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-media-categories/),
   [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-media-categories/), [German](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-media-categories/),
   [Norwegian (Bokmål)](https://nb.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-media-categories/), 
   [Spanish (Chile)](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-media-categories/), [Spanish (Spain)](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-media-categories/)
   и [Swedish](https://sv.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-media-categories/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-media-categories)
 * Tags
 * [attachment](https://mk.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/attachment/)[categories](https://mk.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/categories/)
   [category](https://mk.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/category/)[library](https://mk.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/library/)
   [media](https://mk.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/media/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://mk.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-media-categories/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.6 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  4 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-media-categories/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  3 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-media-categories/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  0 3-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-media-categories/reviews/?filter=3)
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 *  [  0 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-media-categories/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-media-categories/reviews/#new-post)

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## Contributors

 *   [ John James Jacoby ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnjamesjacoby/)
 *   [ Stuttter ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/stuttter/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-media-categories/)

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