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Media Library Organizer – Folders, File Manager & Media Categories
Once a beloved organizer now struggling with feature stripping and intrusive ads.
HealthyGrowing
74/100
The plugin offers useful organization but recent updates stripped free features and added annoying advertisements.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.7★
141 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+74%
Growing fast
96 → 167 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +74% in the last year
96/day a year ago→167/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayMedia Library Organizer is a well-liked free tool for organizing WordPress media into folders and categories, but a significant update (v2.0.1 and beyond) drew sharp criticism for removing previously free features, degrading functionality, and introducing intrusive pro-version upsells.
What people like
- +Free version is considered sufficient and useful for basic media organization on smaller projects×5
- +Clean, simple interface that integrates naturally with the native WordPress media manager×4
- +Developer was responsive to bug reports, releasing a fix within a week of a reported grid-mode issue
Common complaints
- −A major update stripped previously free features, with users reporting lost functionality such as the sidebar media category panel (since 2.0.1)×4
- −Intrusive pro-version advertisements and banners added throughout the interface after the update (since 2.0.1)×3
- −Sorting by categories in the left menu broken after the latest update, requiring a rollback (since 2.0.1)×2
- −Bulk-select is difficult to use because any slight mouse movement triggers the drag-to-categorize action instead
- −Pricing of $50/year per site considered excessive for a plugin with a narrow, simple purpose
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.66★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 12%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-09-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 141 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-04-23★★★★★Easy and helpfulwp223
- 2026-03-24★★★★★Endlich ein Mediaorganizer für kleine Projekteuwegrunewaldwporg
- 2026-03-16★★★★★Love ityonicrisis
- 2026-03-15★★★★★Sehr gutes Plugin mit brauchbarer Freemium Versionmatzomanik
- 2026-03-05★★★★★Use on several Websitesarlenesey
- 2026-02-19★★★★★works greatjohannamicklegmail.com
- 2026-02-13★★★★★Awesome plugin!dlarrivee1-shot
- 2026-01-27★★★★★Great media managerglowmike
- 2026-01-09★★★★★Excellent organizer for my librarychristina55c
- 2025-12-21★★★★★Fantastic organizational toolrsuniversityradio
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Media Library Organizer
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the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
229
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
170
Prior 7-day baseline
189
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
1,448
Mean release-day peak (30d)
275
Latest day · 2026-06-03(tail)
+34.7%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
13%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.94
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
87%
5★ share in analyzed sample
12%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
+22%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.70 → 4.66★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered