12 Best WordPress Media Management Plugins
Organize and optimize your WordPress media library with powerful plugins. Manage files efficiently, enhance media workflows, and improve site performance.
Safe SVG
Active Installations: 1,000,000+
74 ratings
Updated: 12/5/2024
Enable SVG uploads and sanitize them to stop XML/SVG vulnerabilities in your WordPress website.
FileBird – WordPress Media Library Folders & File Manager
Active Installations: 200,000+
1,061 ratings
Updated: 3/19/2025
Organize thousands of WordPress media files in folders / categories with ease.
Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress!
Active Installations: 80,000+
675 ratings
Updated: 3/12/2025
Clean your WordPress! Eliminate unused and broken media files. For a faster, and better website.
Media File Renamer: Rename for better SEO (AI-Powered)
Active Installations: 40,000+
418 ratings
Updated: 3/12/2025
Rename filenames and media metadata for SEO and tidyness. Using AI, manually, in bulk, or in so many other ways!
Media Library Assistant
Active Installations: 70,000+
192 ratings
Updated: 12/30/2024
Enhances the Media Library; powerful gallery and list shortcodes, full taxonomy support, IPTC/EXIF/XMP/PDF processing, bulk/quick edit.
Add From Server
Active Installations: 80,000+
239 ratings
Updated: 12/11/2020
Add From Server is designed to help ease the pain of bad web hosts, allowing you to upload files via FTP or SSH and later import them into WordPress.
Default Featured Image
Active Installations: 80,000+
65 ratings
Updated: 3/30/2025
Add a Default Featured Image for all posts & pages.
Meow Lightbox
Active Installations: 9,000+
164 ratings
Updated: 3/12/2025
Beautiful Lightbox designed for photography, displaying EXIF data. Highly optimized for speed and elegance. You’ll love it!
Phoenix Media Rename
Active Installations: 50,000+
73 ratings
Updated: 12/16/2024
The Phoenix Media Rename plugin allows you to easily rename (and retitle) your media files, once uploaded.
Media Sync
Active Installations: 30,000+
78 ratings
Updated: 11/19/2024
Simple plugin to scan "uploads" directory and bring those files into Media Library.
W4 Post List
Active Installations: 4,000+
93 ratings
Updated: 12/1/2024
W4 Post List lets you create a list of posts, terms, users or a combined one. Decorate output using shortcodes. It's just easy and fun.
WP Paint – WordPress Image Editor
Active Installations: 7,000+
81 ratings
Updated: 1/25/2022
WP Paint - WordPress Image Editor is a browser based Image Editor for WordPress media images.
How We Rank Plugins
To determine the Best WordPress Media Management Plugins we used a comprehensive scoring system that considers multiple factors. We analyze active installations, download counts, user ratings, and rating consistency on a weekly basis. To ensure quality, we only include plugins with a substantial number of reviews. This methodology helps us identify plugins that are not only popular but also consistently reliable and well-maintained.
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