Organizing and managing the media library
This category includes plugins focused on organizing and working with items in the media library.
FileBird and Media Library Assistant are among the listed leaders, alongside related tags such as media-library, attachments, and gallery. Together, these terms point to a focus on library items and how they are managed or grouped.
Importing, renaming, and identifying media files
The plugins in this group represent different needs: bringing files into the library, changing filenames, or identifying items.
- File transfer: Add From Server and Media Sync are associated with importing or syncing media files.
- Filename changes: Phoenix Media Rename, Media File Renamer, and Clean Image Filenames are grouped around renaming or cleaning file names.
- Identification: Reveal IDs represents the need to identify media items.
Image handling, cleanup, and protection
Image-related plugins cover file handling, cleanup, featured-image defaults, and watermarking.
- Safe SVG: Represents SVG-related media handling.
- Media Cleaner: Its name points to cleaning up media, alongside the cleanup tag.
- Default Featured Image: Represents setting a default for featured images.
- Easy Watermark: Represents watermarking as a form of image protection. Related tags include images, upload, and webp.
A broad category with few high-install plugins and uneven update activity
The Media category contains 692 plugins, but only a small number reach the highest install thresholds.
Just 2 plugins have at least 100,000 installs, and 22 have at least 10,000. Meanwhile, 51% of category plugins were updated in the last year. Adoption and maintenance are worth weighing separately: among the listed leaders, some were updated this month, while Add From Server was last updated 71 months ago. These figures show why install counts alone do not describe update activity.