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Your media library already knows what is in every picture.

A free folder plugin for your WordPress media library, with optional AI that describes, files and finds your pictures.

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Free and GPL-licensed. The AI is optional and priced per picture.
Reading · 1 credit
IMG_5377.jpgalt text written

Pouring Coffee Into Ceramic Cup

Hand pouring dark coffee from a glass carafe into a speckled ceramic cup.

Filed in Coffee
Launch: Lifetime licence, {{ pLifetime }} once, one site. A hundred of them. See pricing
Free · no licence, no service

What you get before you pay anything.

  • Folder tree with drag and drop; Ctrl-drop adds a picture to a second folder
  • Five smart folders: Unused media, Missing alt text, Large files, Unattached, This month
  • Folder galleries as a block, in Elementor, Divi and WPBakery, or with the shortcode
  • Upload straight into the open folder
  • Download a folder as a ZIP
  • Enhanced Media Library settings copied across when you activate
  • Duplicate finder, on your own server
  • Safe mode, switched on automatically after 2 fatal errors in an hour
  • Import from other folder plugins, and from CSV

What the AI adds, and what each action costs.

Every action below runs through the service and needs a licence or the free trial: 25 credits, no card.

Describe a picturealt text, title and caption1 credit
Propose foldersa tree you can approve or change10 credits
Plan my foldersa tree built from your described pictures30 credits plus 15 per 100 labels
Folder profilingwhen you confirm; the first 100 folders are free1 credit per 6 folders after that
Search by meaningrate limited0 credits
Re-filing, folder talkand alt text from an existing description0 credits
New in 4.1.0

Plan my folders, then watch the tree grow.

A folder plan built from what your pictures show

Describe at least five pictures, press one button, and the labels become a tree. You confirm it before anything moves.

Your tree grows for free

After you confirm a tree, new pictures with new labels get a proposed folder, for 0 credits.

A maintained fork of Enhanced Media Library, with AI built in.

4min

to describe, name and file five hundred pictures

How credits work
38

languages for alt text and titles, in your site's own language

Licence & AI features
0credits

for search, re-filing and duplicates: they reuse the one read

Pricing
Run for real

A shop library of 43 camera-named files.

Every title, alt text, folder and search hit on this page is what the plugin wrote about them.

What it does for your library

Describe · 1 credit

Alt text for every picture you have.

One read writes the alt text, the title and what it saw, in your site's language. Run it on the whole backlog while you do something else. Your own alt text is never overwritten.

See how it reads

Folders you approve before anything moves

You build the tree, or take it from your shop's product categories. It places every picture, says why, and one click puts it all back.

How filing works

Search by what the picture shows

Type "things made of clay" and get the mugs, though no file name or description says clay. The reading was paid for once, so searching is free.

Try the search
Clean · on your server

Copies set aside, never deleted.

Exact copies and near-copies, listed apart. Every page that used a copy follows the one you keep, and you have thirty days to bring it back.

See the duplicate finder

Every picture gets its own words

The file name it arrived with, and what the plugin wrote about it.

Folders43 files
Coffee6
Home21
Candles7
Ceramics8
Linen4
Plants2
Lookbook3
Skincare8
Serums and oils5
GET /wp-json/wp/v2/media_category
[ { "name": "Ceramics", "count": 8 },
  { "name": "Coffee", "count": 6 }, … ]
No tables of our own

Your folders are ordinary WordPress categories.

They show up in the REST API, in exports, and in every other plugin that understands categories. They are still there the day you remove us.

Import them from other folder plugins, and from CSV, and take them with you if you leave.

Tested on every release.

WordPress 6.5 to 7.1, PHP 7.4 to 8.5. It adds its own panels to the media library and never rewrites it.

One shop library, run through it for real.

Forty-three photographs, uploaded under camera file names like IMG_5104.jpg, then described, filed, searched and scanned by the plugin. The numbers below are that run.

A backlog nobody had written a word for

Every picture came in with no title and no alt text. One press started the run; it worked through the library in the background.

The one byte-for-byte copy was recognised and not read or charged twice.

How credits work
shop-banner-coffee.jpg → Coffee Bag and Cupnow has a title, alt text and five facts
42credits

for 43 files: alt text, a title and what it saw for every picture.

The copy cost nothing. At zero credits, processing stops; it never charges you afterwards.

A pasted tree, filled by the pictures themselves

Nine folders pasted in as a list. Each picture was placed by what it shows, and says why it is where it is.

Where two folders scored too close, it left the picture where it was and said so.

How filing works
IMG_5033.jpg · left where it wasSkincare 0.86 against Home 0.77, too close to call
38of 43

placed on their own, the other five left for you to decide.

Folders are WordPress categories. One click undoes the whole run.

Searching for what nobody typed

"Things made of clay" found the four mugs. Not one of them says clay, not in its file name and not in its description.

"Morning coffee" found four pictures, though no description mentions a morning.

Try the search
"things made of clay"4 found
0credits

per search. The pictures were read once; every search after that is free.

Across thousands of files in a second. Captions, titles, tags and folders are searched too.

The copies everyone uploads twice

An exact copy under another name, and a smaller version of the stacked cups, listed apart.

The copy is set aside, never deleted, and pages that used it follow the one you keep.

See the duplicate finder
stacked-cups-small.jpga near-copy of DSC_0415.jpg
329KB

freed by the one exact copy, with thirty days to bring it back.

Runs on your own server. Nothing is sent anywhere.

Questions people ask first.

Do I need an API key?

No. Paste the licence key and it works. Thirty seconds, no account to create.

What happens when credits run out?

Processing stops. It never charges you afterwards.

Can I keep using the free version forever?

Yes. Folders, drag and drop, duplicate detection and the import tools cost nothing and always will.

Where do images go?

Only when you describe them: a downsized copy goes through our service to a model provider, by way of OpenRouter in the United States, and is discarded when the answer comes back. We do not store it, and every request asks for providers that keep no data. The region the model runs in is not fixed. Who processes what.
Does it work with folder plugins like FileBird?

It imports their folders as ordinary WordPress categories.

Start free. Pay per picture when you want the AI.

You see exactly what a run will cost before you start it. Yearly, cancel any time. Refund within 14 days, credits used deducted.

Install the free pluginSee pricing
Freefolders, galleries, duplicates, imports
Pro, Pro 5, Agencythe AI, with credits included
Lifetime{{ pLifetime }} once, a hundred of them
Features

Everything it does

7 tools, each with a real picture4.1.0 current release1 credit to describe a picture
01 Folders Free

Folders in the media library, kept as categories

A real folder tree over your library. Drag files in, done.

✓In the grid, the block editor and the media modal of twenty page builders
✓Folders are WordPress categories — they show in the REST API and exports
✓Delete the plugin and your structure stays

Drag and drop, nested as deep as you like. Move files, move folders, rename in place. No page reload.

A file can be in two folders at once. Dragging moves it, Ctrl-drop files it in a second folder as well — one photo, in Products and in Autumn Campaign, without a second copy.

More than one tree over the same files. Clients, Projects, Usage rights: as many folder trees as the way you work needs.

Private folders. On a site where five people upload, a folder can belong to whoever made it and stay out of everyone else's sidebar.

Uploads land in the folder you have open. No second step, no tidying up afterwards.

Your whole structure as a spreadsheet. Export it to CSV, build two hundred folders in a text editor, read it back.
02 Alt text and titles 1 credit per image

Alt text and titles that know what the page is about

One credit reads one image and writes the alt text, caption, title and tags.

✓Knows the page it sits on: the keyphrase from Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress or AIOSEO
✓Written for screen readers, in your site's language
✓A field you filled in yourself is never touched
Backlog · 500 images 8 at a time · 341 written · about 1 min left

Written for the person listening to it. One sentence, never empty, no “image of” to start, and nothing described that is not visible in the picture.

It reads the page, not just the picture. The page title, the focus keyphrase, the meta description and up to three related keyphrases, from all four major SEO plugins.

Precise, never stuffed. “Ripper graphic on an 8.0 maple deck” rather than “skateboard deck buy skateboards online”. Keyword-stuffed alt text is what those same SEO plugins penalise, and it is unusable to the person listening.

Titles as well as alt text. DSC_4822.jpg becomes “Red Synthesizer with Controls” in the media list — two to five words, title case, applied per file, to a selection, or to the whole library.

Your pages with a keyphrase come first. It starts with the images missing alt text on the pages your SEO plugin already scores, cornerstone and pillar pages ahead of the rest.

Your words, not generic ones. Tell it once what the site sells and the writing uses your trade's vocabulary and your product names.

It runs while you do something else. Eight images at a time, roughly four minutes for five hundred, and it carries on after you close the tab.

Nothing you wrote is overwritten, ever. It fills empty fields only, marks everything it wrote, and takes all of it back out in one click if you do not like it.
03 Sorting Pro · 10 or 30+ credits

You build the folder tree. It fills it.

Paste your folders, take them from your shop’s product categories, build them by hand, or let it propose a structure (10 credits) — then it files every picture and tells you how many before you press.

✓Every folder counted before anything moves, and one click puts it all back
✓A shop starts from its own product categories: one press, and the products place their own pictures
✓Plan my folders builds the tree from what your pictures show: 30 credits plus 15 per 100 labels, the price on the button
✓Every picture says why it is there: the folder, the word that matched, and what it nearly went to instead

You see the tree before it exists. Counts against every branch, a few thumbnails, and the reason those files are together.

Named after what is in them. Not “Folder 1” — “Landscape and nature”, 168 files.

Change it by saying what you want. “Drop nature, I want buildings, split into modern and classic” rewrites the proposal. Your library does not change until you accept it.

Plan my folders, priced on the button. It builds a tree from every label recorded about your pictures: 30 credits plus 15 per 100 distinct labels, and at least five described pictures. A plan that isn't shown (it doesn't beat your folders, it doesn't arrive, or you confirm your tree while it runs) has its credits refunded, once per site every 30 days. A plan that fails on our side is always refunded. Once you confirm a tree, new folders for new pictures cost nothing. Profiling a confirmed tree is free for the first 100 folders, then 1 credit per 6 folders.

It only touches files nobody had filed. A library you organised by hand is left exactly as you left it.

Undo puts every file back. And anything you moved yourself in the meantime stays where you put it, and is reported.
04 Search Pro · 0 credits

Find a picture by what it shows

Type what the picture shows. “Water at sunset” finds coastlines and beaches.

✓No filename has to contain the word — the match is against the image
✓Searches captions, tags, filenames and uploader too
✓Costs nothing: the reading was paid for once, at describe time

Matches meaning. The picture comes back even when none of your words appear anywhere in its caption.

Searches everything written about a file. Captions, titles, tags, the uploader, and every folder it is filed in.

More like this one. One click from any file, instantly, and no credit — it compares descriptions your library already holds.

Smart folders that answer a question. Unused media, missing alt text, large files, unattached and this month, sitting above your own folders and always up to date.

Used on. Which posts and pages actually use a file, before you touch it.
05 Duplicates Free

The same photo, uploaded four times

The same photo, found twice — exact copies and near-copies, listed apart.

✓Byte-identical re-uploads, and the same shot at another size
✓Each copy shows what still uses it
✓Nothing is deleted at any point

Exact and visually similar, kept apart. Two lists, because “identical” and “looks the same” are not the same claim.

The disk cost in plain figures. Keep one, tidy the rest, and see how much comes back.

Every copy shown, with where it is used. Before anything happens to any of them.

Tidied means set aside, not deleted. The file stays on disk at the same URL for thirty days, still working in any page you had not spotted. One click brings it back.

Links follow the copy you kept. Post content, featured images, builder layouts, ACF fields and WooCommerce galleries are all repointed.
06 Bulk editing Free

Fix one title, or fix a thousand

Fix a title or alt text in the row — one file, a selection, or all of them.

✓Quick edit in the media list, no round trips
✓One run over the whole library
✓Undoes in one click

Quick edit, in the row. Title and alt text, saved without a page load, and the row updates with what you wrote.

Bulk actions. Add a whole selection to a folder, a category or a tag — or take it out of one — from the list you are already looking at.

Apply the titles and alt text you have already paid for. Every empty alt field filled from the descriptions on record, and DSC_4822 replaced with a real title, across the library in one run.

Filing without the mouse. Select files, press M, type the first letters of a folder, press enter.

Everything is reversible. Every sort, import, title change and alt-text fill comes back out in one click, and anything you edited by hand is skipped.
07 Migration Free

Bring your folders across from the plugin you use now

Your folders come across from other folder plugins — or a CSV — in minutes.

✓From other folder plugins, or from a CSV file
✓You see the plan first; merges are named before they happen
✓The other plugin is untouched, so the way back stays open
Found on this site
FileBird18 folders
HappyFilesnot installed
Real Media Librarynot installed
A CSV fileupload
Rebuilt as categories
18 → 18
folders read, categories made · 510 files assigned
Import complete Undo import

FileBird's own data is untouched.

Other folder plugins and a CSV. Detected automatically; you choose which one to read.

You see what it will do first. What it will create, and which folders will merge with ones you already have, before it runs.

Nothing at the other end is touched. The plugin you are leaving keeps all of its own data, so you can go back at any time.

Undo, from the same screen. One click puts your library back the way it was.

And leaving here is just as easy. Delete the plugin and your folders stay, because they are categories. A folder downloads as a ZIP, the whole tree as a CSV.
The rest of it Twenty smaller things, each of which someone has needed.
It works inside your page builder
The folder tree is in the media modal of twenty page builders, as well as the block editor. Six are verified in a browser (Elementor, WPBakery, Beaver Builder, Brizy, Zion and Divi 5); the rest are best effort.
A folder can be a gallery
Add it as a block, an Elementor, Divi or WPBakery element, or a shortcode. Put a new image in the folder and every page showing that gallery has it, with nothing re-edited.
Files are set aside, never deleted
A file you think you are done with leaves the library and stays on disk, working, for thirty days. There is no delete button in the feature at all.
One set of folders in every language
With Polylang or WPML, a translated image lands in the original's folders and the tree looks the same whichever language you are editing in.
Built for networks
Network activation provisions every site, including ones created later, and one licence key the whole network inherits.
It gets out of the way if it breaks
Two fatal errors in its own code within an hour and it stops loading its own features so the site comes back. No FTP client, no renamed folder.
Your filing is yours to keep
Folders are categories. Delete the plugin and they are still there, for a reinstall or for any other plugin that reads the same taxonomy.
Visible to everything else
Because folders are terms, the block editor, a headless front end, WP-CLI and any other plugin can read them through the REST API.
Filters where you actually need them
Type, date, author and every taxonomy you assign — in the grid, in the list, and in the media modal inside the editor.
Control over file types
Add, rename, allow or disallow a MIME type, and fold it into the library filters.
Keyboard and right-to-left
File with the M key and arrow through the folder list; every screen has a right-to-left stylesheet.
Type what you want done
“Move the screenshots into Products.” Four verbs are allowed — move, tag, rename, create — and delete is not one of them.
Uploads that file themselves
New uploads get a suggested folder. A folder only starts filing on its own once you have accepted its suggestions.
It tells you what to do first
One screen that knows what has been scanned, described and proposed, and turns that into the next sensible step.
The AI features do nothing without a key
No picture is described on upload or in the background, and nothing is filed, searched by meaning or planned. Demo mode writes captions locally so you can see how it works before paying for anything. The Get help form is the one thing that works without a key, and it says what it sends before you send it.
You pay for results, not attempts
Credits are prepaid, they do not expire while the licence is active, failed images are refunded, and at zero the work simply stops.
Fast on a library that is actually big
20,000 attachments: four queries and 46ms, and it stays flat from 200 folders to 2,000.
Checked against new releases nightly
Every new version of WordPress, PHP and the plugins this one integrates with is checked for the hooks we rely on, then installed on a staging site and run.
Ready to translate
All 1,060 strings are translatable, loaded from the plugin's own languages folder.
Nothing to build or maintain
Plain PHP and ES5. No compile step, no dependencies to keep updated.

One credit describes one picture. Search costs nothing.

The free plugin does folders, smart folders, galleries, duplicates and import with no account and no key. Proposing folders costs 10 credits; Plan my folders costs 30 credits and up.
Yearly · cancel any time

Four plans. One of them is free.

€0 the maintained plugin, complete1 credit = one picture read0 credits to search or find copies

Free

No account needed
€0 forever
 
Download
  • ✓Folders with drag and drop, kept as categories
  • ✓Categories, tags, custom taxonomies
  • ✓Filters in library and media popups
  • ✓Bulk edit and drag-and-drop ordering
  • ✓Import from other folder plugins, and CSV
  • ✓Five smart folders and folder galleries
  • ✓Duplicate finder, exact and near copies
  • ✓WordPress 6.5 to 7.1, PHP 7.4 to 8.5
Most bought

Pro, one site

For one production site
{{ pSingle }} per year
2,000 credits a year included
Buy Pro
  • ✓Everything in Free
  • ✓Alt text, captions and tags, 1 credit a picture
  • ✓Search by meaning, 0 credits
  • ✓Titles written from the descriptions, in bulk
  • ✓Folder proposals (10 credits) and Plan my folders (30 credits and up)

Pro, five sites

Credits shared across sites
{{ pFive }} per year
5,000 credits a year, shared
Buy Pro 5
  • ✓Everything in Pro
  • ✓Up to five sites, one licence key
  • ✓One busy site can use the quiet ones’ allowance

Agency

For client work at volume
{{ pAgency }} per year
20,000 credits a year, shared
Buy Agency
  • ✓Up to 25 sites, 20,000 credits a year
  • ✓One licence key for the whole network, which can be locked
  • ✓More than 25 sites? Talk to us
Founding Agency: the first 20 agencies before 30 November pay {{ pFounding }} a year, locked for as long as they renew. Code FOUNDING in the cart.

Yearly, cancel any time. Refund within 14 days, credits used deducted. {{ vatNote }} Credits do not expire while your licence is active.

Feature by tier
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Import from other folder plugins, and CSV
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AI alt text, captions and tags
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Plain-language search
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Duplicate finder, exact and near copies
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Settings export and restore, safe mode
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2,000
5,000
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Credits

One credit, one image.

One credit describes one picture (alt text, caption, tags). Searching, finding copies and re-filing cost nothing. Proposing folders costs 10 credits; Plan my folders costs 30 credits plus 15 per 100 labels.

Extra credits: packs of 500, 1,000, 2,000, 5,000 or 20,000, from {{ pRateFrom }} down to {{ pRateTo }} per credit — the bigger the pack, the lower the rate. Prepaid, no expiry while your licence is active, service limits so a runaway import can't drain them. When you're at zero, processing pauses. You are never billed afterwards.

What will my library cost?
My plan
Images to process {{ calcImagesLabel }}
10020,000
Credits needed
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What that costs
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{{ calcNote }}

Coming from Enhanced Media Library PRO?

{{ pSwitch }} for your first year of Pro, one site.

You paid for a plugin that stopped getting updates. We're not going to charge you full price for the fix.

The button below takes the first year of Pro, one site, down to {{ pSwitch }}; there is no code to ask for. It renews at {{ pSingle }} a year, and the checkout shows that before you pay. The offer is for Pro, one site, only.

Claim the discount
Launch only Lifetime licence

{{ pLifetime }} once, one site, for as long as VergeLabs exists.

All future updates and 2,000 credits a year. A hundred of them, then gone.{{ lifetimeLeftText }}

We say that because we mean it: lifetime licences are how the last owner ran out of money.
Questions

Billing, plainly.

Yearly. Cancel any time; the plugin keeps working, updates and AI features stop at the end of the term.

No questions asked. Within 14 days of buying, you get your money back, minus the credits you have already used.

Yes. Every purchase has an invoice in your account. EU consumers are charged VAT where it applies, and the prices shown to them include it; a business with a valid EU VAT number is reverse-charged.

Yes, deactivate on one, activate on another, from your account.

The run stops at zero, and you are never charged afterwards. Top up and run it again; pictures already described stay described.
Docs · Migration

Install VergeLabs Media Library and migrate from Enhanced Media Library

Five minutes time neededNothing deleted at any point6.5 to 7.1 WordPress, 7.4 to 8.5 PHP

Before you start

  • —Back up your site, or at least export your database. You won't need it, but it's what professionals do.
  • —Note your WordPress version. VergeLabs runs on WordPress 6.5 to 7.1, PHP 7.4 to 8.5.

Install

1

Download the free plugin, version 4.1.0, from this page (a zip) and upload it under Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin. Once the WordPress.org listing is live, searching “VergeLabs Media Library” under Plugins → Add New works too.

2

VergeLabs Library appears in the admin menu, with the Dashboard, Folders, AI, Duplicates and Import folders in its own navigation.

Migrate from Enhanced Media Library

When you activate VergeLabs, it copies your Enhanced Media Library settings by itself. There is nothing to click.

1

Activate VergeLabs Media Library. Your Enhanced Media Library settings are copied automatically. Your media files and their assignments are untouched; your categories are WordPress terms, so they stay where they are.

2

Open VergeLabs Library and look through your folders and settings.

3

Deactivate Enhanced Media Library. Don't delete it until you've clicked through your library once. Then delete it.

To bring folders across from another folder plugin, or from a CSV: VergeLabs Library → Import folders

Check

Media → Library

Your categories filter shows the same options as before.

In a post

Add an image: the media popup shows your filters.

List view

Your columns and taxonomies are there.

If something looks off

Layout broken in WordPress 7

That's the bug in the old plugin. Deactivate it; VergeLabs alone fixes it.

A page builder's media popup shows no filters

The folder tree is in twenty page builders, six of them verified in a browser. If yours is not one of them, write to support with its name and version.

Still stuck

Safe mode switches on by itself after two fatal errors in an hour. It keeps your taxonomies and turns off everything else. Write to support with a screenshot and the System report (VergeLabs Library → Settings → Media Utilities); we answer within one business day.

Contact support

Uninstall

Deactivating keeps all your data. Deleting the plugin keeps your folders too, because they are WordPress categories, unless you switch on Complete Cleanup: “Also remove all folders, settings and the AI index when the plugin is deleted”, under VergeLabs Library → Settings → Media Utilities. It is off by default.
Docs · Licence

Connect your licence and turn on AI features

Two minutes time neededPro, Agency, lifetime licencesOne key for all your sites

Where your key is

After purchase you receive an email with your licence key. It's also in your account at vergelabsmedia.com/account under Licences.

Connect

1

Go to VergeLabs Library → Settings → Licence.

2

Paste the key, click Connect.

3

The screen shows your plan, sites used, and credits remaining.

VergeLabs Library → Settings → Licence Connected
Plan
Pro, five sites
Sites used
3 of 5
Credits remaining
3,612 of 5,000
412 credits used this year across three sites

One key can be active on as many sites as your plan allows. Move a site off the licence from the same screen or from your account.

Turn on AI features

Under VergeLabs Library → AI, in the tabs Describe, How it describes and Search.

AI features
Describe the backlog
Pick a category or the whole library, set a batch size, click Run. Runs in the background — close the tab if you like.
Plain-language search
Builds an index of your library. It costs no credits.
Duplicates
No credits needed, and no licence.

A run in progress has its own Stop button. If the plugin hits two fatal errors in an hour, safe mode switches on by itself.

What gets sent

Describing sends a resized copy of the image (long side 1024 px) with its filename, title and caption, so results match your wording; the image is analysed and discarded. Sorting into folders sends your folder names and what was written about your pictures, not the pictures again. Searching by meaning sends the phrase you type. Plan my folders sends labels and counts, never pictures, captions, file names or folder names. The plugin's readme lists every request and everything in it, endpoint by endpoint.

Details on the privacy page.

Limits

The service limits how fast credits can be spent, so a runaway import cannot spend your year's credits in an hour: 240 credits a minute, and 25,000 in a day or a quarter of your balance, whichever is higher. Folder planning is limited to 40 requests a day per site. These are not settings; there is nothing to change.

Disconnect

Licence → Disconnect. AI features turn off; the plugin keeps working; your existing alt text stays.
Docs · Credits

How credits work

1 credit = one picture read0 credits to search or find copiesNo overage prepaid and capped

What costs a credit

Describing an image (alt text, caption, tags) 1 credit
Proposing a folder structure 10 credits
Re-describing an image you already described 1 credit
Plan my folders (at least five described pictures) 30 + 15 per 100 labels
Profiling folders, past the first 100 1 per 6 folders

What doesn't

0

Duplicate detection, taxonomies, filters, everything in the free plugin. Searching by meaning, and the indexing behind it. Alt text from a description you already have. Re-filing, and talking to the folder planner.

0

Failed calls, and plans that are not shown. If our service errors, or a plan would not beat your folders, the credits come back.

Where credits come from

Yearly allowance

Every Pro plan includes 2,000 (one site), 5,000 (five sites) or 20,000 (Agency) credits a year. On renewal the same amount is added, and credits you have not used stay.

Extra packs

From {{ pRateFrom }} per credit, and cheaper the more you buy — 20,000 for {{ p20k }}. They never expire while your licence is active.

One balance Allowance and packs add up to one balance. Every action takes from it.

Limits

  • —The service limits spending to 240 credits a minute, and 25,000 a day or a quarter of your balance, whichever is higher. There is no setting for it.
  • —A run stops at zero. Nothing is lost, and pictures already described stay described.
  • —There is no overage. We can't charge you more than what you prepaid, because there's no way to do it on our side either.

Seeing your usage

VergeLabs Library → Settings → Licence shows credits left. Your account page shows usage across all sites, plus invoices.

Refunds

No questions asked, within 14 days of buying, credits already used deducted.
Changelog & roadmap

Everything we shipped.

4.1.0 current release6.5 to 7.1 WordPress, tested every release7.4 to 8.5 PHP
4.1.0
Current release
Folder planner
New

Plan my folders. On the Folders screen, one button builds a folder tree from what your pictures show. It costs 30 credits plus 15 per 100 distinct labels, the price is on the button, and it needs at least five described pictures.

New

Your tree grows for free. Once you confirm a tree, new pictures with new labels get new folders proposed at no charge.

New

A plan that isn't shown (it doesn't beat your folders, it doesn't arrive, or you confirm your tree while it runs) has its credits refunded, once per site every 30 days. A plan that fails on our side is always refunded.

New

The audience is asked, not guessed. When your pictures do not show whether they are for men, women or kids, the Tree step asks once before splitting folders that way.

Fixed

A licence with no free seat now says so. Saving or connecting one used to report success, and every AI request after it failed.

Changed

The known-problems list comes from the AI service instead of GitHub, and is fetched only when you press “Check for known problems”.

Changed

The plugin’s admin screens have new addresses, all starting vergeml-. Bookmarks to the old ones are sent on.

4.0.2 – 4.0.7
Patches
4.0.7

The plugin contacts nothing until you ask it to. No price is fetched on the AI screen, and the known-problems list is fetched only when you press the button.

4.0.6

Demo mode stays usable on a site without a licence. Code the original plugin kept for its paid edition is gone.

4.0.5

A site without a licence can try the AI free on 25 pictures, and sees what its own library would cost instead of an error.

4.0.4

While the AI service is away, pictures wait instead of being marked as failed. A re-describe that fails keeps the description the picture already had.

4.0.3

Screen Options opens over the folder panel on the media list, not under it.

4.0.2

Dragging into a folder works again beside FileBird, and Screen Options and Help open again beside the folder panel.

4.0.0 – 4.0.1
Folders
New

The Folders screen is a workflow: build a tree — paste it, click it out, or take it from your shop’s product categories — confirm it, fill it. Every step is a button with its credit cost printed on it.

New

Filing reads what a picture shows, with three honest answers: it fits, it is between two folders, or nothing fits. A picture you placed by hand is never moved, and the number before you press is the number that happens.

New

On a shop, one press turns product categories into folders and the products place their own pictures before anything is guessed at — 32 of 33 on a real shop.

New

Every picture says why it is where it is: the folder, the word that matched, the score, and the folder it could not beat.

Fixed

Six buttons that did nothing, the reset-filters crash on a fresh site, updates not reaching browsers that kept old scripts, folders with an & in the name, and the grid ignoring folders when Enhanced Media Library was still installed.

4.0.1

The support ticket no longer carries your licence key. A CSV cell starting with =, +, - or @ no longer opens as a formula. A PHP 8.4 deprecation notice on every AI request is gone.

3.15.0
Multilingual
New

Polylang and WPML. A translated image lands in the same folders as its original — one folder tree, whichever language is selected. Sites that want folders per language can have that instead.

New

Verified against the real things: Divi’s Folder gallery module rendering from a built page, and the SEO context live-checked against current Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress and All in One SEO releases.

New · Pro

Buy credits in packs of 500, 1,000, 2,000, 5,000 or 20,000, straight from your account — the card form comes to you, not the other way round. The bigger the pack, the lower the price per credit.

New

A numbered invoice for every purchase, one-off credit top-ups included. Discount codes work in the cart and in the account, and a payment re-quotes live as you change the amount.

New

Your account, rebuilt: month-by-month usage, connected sites, a credit ledger, pro-rata plan switching, and sign-in that follows you across the whole site.

New

Write to support and the draft is prepared by an agent that first checks your licence’s real activity — what ran, when it stopped, what was refunded — before answering. No canned replies.

Watch

Every night an automated watch picks up new WordPress, PHP, plugin and theme releases, checks everything this plugin relies on, and upgrades a staging site — before any of it reaches yours.

3.14.0
A network, from A to Z
New

Multisite, from A to Z. Network activation provisions every site — including sites created later. One network-wide AI licence entered once, a per-site overview for the network administrator, and one site’s failure can never take the plugin down for the rest.

New

File without touching the mouse: press M with files selected and type the folder. Right-to-left stylesheets for every screen. Describing refuses to run on a staging copy unless you say otherwise.

3.9 — 3.13
The AI half grew up
New

The folder tree in twenty page builders’ media pickers — Elementor, Divi, WPBakery, Beaver Builder, Bricks, Oxygen, Breakdance, Avada and the rest.

New

Descriptions that know the page: the page’s title, focus keyphrase and meta description travel with the image, and a Fix-alt-text button targets exactly the pages your SEO plugin is marking down. One switch; off, nothing about your pages leaves the site.

New

Describe in the background: start a backlog run and close the tab. It carries on without you.

Faster

Search by meaning on a 20,000-image library: over five seconds down to under half a second. A hundred-image media listing: 630ms to 390ms.

New

Leaving is safe. Uninstalling keeps your folders and descriptions in WordPress’s own tables, ready for a reinstall — or a switch, if you turn it on, that removes every trace instead.

3.0.0
First VergeLabs release
New maintainer
Base

New name, new maintainer. Based on Enhanced Media Library 2.9.4 (GPLv2 or later), all function and option names moved to the new prefix.

Carried over

Your Enhanced Media Library settings, taxonomies, filters and MIME types come across.

Fixed

Media library layout in WordPress 7.

Fixed

PHP 8.1 to 8.4 deprecations and warnings.

Rebuilt

Bulk categorise, auto-assign to parent post categories, gallery and playlist options, search by category name, configurable search fields.

New

Every third-party integration behind its own switch, off by default. Detection notice for folder plugins.

New

Settings export and restore. Safe mode.

New · Pro

AI alt text, captions and tags, in bulk. Plain-language search. Duplicate finder. Prepaid credits.

Tested

WordPress 6.5 to 7.1, PHP 7.4 to 8.5, WooCommerce, ACF, Elementor, WPBakery, Beaver Builder, Brizy, Zion, Divi 5, Jetpack, Polylang, WPML, Yoast, Rank Math, WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, FooGallery, MetaSlider, NextGEN, Smush, ShortPixel, Classic Editor.

2.9.5-fix
Patch on GitHub
Compat

Compatibility release for existing Enhanced Media Library users: WordPress 7 layout fix and PHP 8 fixes only. Published on GitHub as a patch while the new plugin was in preparation.

Public roadmap

Next, in rough order.

Planned, not promised, and no dates. Feature requests go to support or a GitHub issue.

Review queue for suggested alt text
Approve or edit a whole backlog run from one screen.
In build
WP-CLI commands
Run backlog describe, indexing and duplicate scans from the terminal.
Planned
Per-image language override
For multilingual libraries where the site language isn't the right one.
Planned
Troubleshooting

Enhanced Media Library not working in WordPress 7? Here's the fix

5 minutes to fix€0 the free version fixes itNothing deleted your categories are WordPress terms
The short answer

Install VergeLabs Media Library, activate it, deactivate the old plugin. The free version fixes it — no purchase needed.

Migration guide

What's happening

Enhanced Media Library was last updated in July 2024 and tested up to WordPress 6.5. WordPress 7 changed the media library screens. The plugin's layout code no longer lines up: overlapping panels, filters that don't show, a sidebar covering files, and PHP 8 warnings in your logs. Its developer has not responded in the support forum since 2024, and the paid PRO version's update server has been down.

Nothing is wrong with your files. Your categories and taxonomies are WordPress terms; they're safe.

Before · old plugin on WP 7
Media LibraryAll categories ⌄
Product shots
Workshops
Team
Press
Attachment details
panels overlap
After · VergeLabs free
Media LibraryProduct shots ⌄layout fixed
Product shots248
Workshops96
Team31
Press64
Your screenshot · optional

The fix

VergeLabs Media Library is a maintained fork of Enhanced Media Library. Same features, same settings, working on WordPress 7 and PHP 8. It copies your settings when you activate it.

1

Download VergeLabs Media Library 4.1.0 from this page (a zip) and upload it under Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin. Searching for it under Add New works once the WordPress.org listing is live.

2

Activate it. Your Enhanced Media Library settings are copied automatically, and your categories are WordPress terms, so they are already there.

3

Deactivate Enhanced Media Library. Check your library. Delete the old plugin.

The free version fixes the WordPress 7 problem. No purchase needed.

If you'd rather patch the old plugin

We published a compatibility patch, 2.9.5-fix, on GitHub. It fixes the layout and PHP 8 issues and changes nothing else. It's a stop-gap; the old plugin won't get further updates from anyone, so migrating is the better move.

PRO customers

If you paid for Enhanced Media Library PRO, the fix above still applies. The PRO features (bulk categorise, gallery tools, category search) are in the free plugin, and old PRO customers get the first year of Pro, one site, for {{ pSwitch }}.

See what it costs
Comparison · 2026

Enhanced Media Library alternatives: what to switch to

4 options compared2024 EML's last updateWP 7 where it breaks
VergeLabs
Old EML
Folder plugins
Alt-text tools
Maintained in 2026
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Works on WordPress 7
Yes
Layout breaks
Check each
Check each
Organisation model
Taxonomies — a file in several categories
Taxonomies
Folders — one folder per file
None
Keeps your existing EML setup
Settings copied on activation
—
Rebuild from scratch
—
AI alt text, captions, tags
Yes, in Pro
No
No
Yes, that's the whole tool
Plain-language search
Yes, in Pro
No
No
No
Duplicate finder
Yes, free
No
Varies
No
Price
Free · Pro from {{ pSingle }}/yr
Free · PRO no longer sold
Varies
Usually per image

Third-party details change; check each plugin's own page before you buy. Compiled August 2026.

If you want the same thing, maintained

VergeLabs

VergeLabs Media Library is a fork of Enhanced Media Library. Same taxonomies, filters, bulk edit and ordering; your settings copied on activation. Fixed for WordPress 7 and PHP 8. Free.

Pro adds what the old plugin never had: AI alt text and captions written from what the picture shows, search by meaning, folder planning, and titles written from the descriptions. The duplicate finder is in the free plugin. Prepaid credits. From {{ pSingle }} a year, {{ pSwitch }} for the first year of Pro, one site, if you owned the old PRO.

Best for: everyone who liked Enhanced Media Library and doesn't want to redo their library.

If you want folders instead of categories

FileBird, Real Media Library, HappyFiles and WP Media Folder give you a folder tree in the sidebar. They're a different model: a file lives in one folder; with taxonomies a file can be in several categories. Moving from Enhanced Media Library to a folder plugin means rebuilding your organisation from scratch, and Enhanced Media Library's own docs recommend against running both.

Best for: sites that think in folders and don't need multi-category tagging.

If you only need alt text

AltText.ai, AutoAlt.ai, Alt Magic and similar tools write alt text and stop there. They don't organise your library.

Best for: sites that already have organisation sorted and only want accessibility and image SEO.

Migration without rebuilding

Install VergeLabs Media Library, activate it, deactivate the old plugin. Nothing in your library is deleted at any point.
Alternative

Leave Enhanced Media Library and keep your folders

Enhanced Media Library's last release was 2.9.4, in July 2024, and it is tested up to WordPress 6.5. On WordPress 7 its media toolbar breaks: the extra filters stack into one tall block and the author filter overlaps the type filter. VergeLabs Media Library is a maintained fork of it, and fixes both.

Free to installSettings copied when you activate itNothing moves your folders are WordPress terms

What moving takes

Your settings are copied. Activating VergeLabs Media Library copies your Enhanced Media Library settings: taxonomies and their options, library and filter options, custom MIME types, ordering and gallery options. The old plugin's own options are left as they were, so you can go back.

Your files do not move. Enhanced Media Library filed them under the same media_category taxonomy, so every folder assignment is already in place.

Then remove the old plugin. Deactivate Enhanced Media Library, activate VergeLabs Media Library, click through your library once, then delete the old one. If you install ours first, your site keeps working; you see each taxonomy twice until you deactivate the old plugin.

The full steps are in the install guide.

What is free

No licence and no account. Nothing here calls our service.

A folder tree with drag and drop Five smart folders: Unused media, Missing alt text, Large files, Unattached, This month Folder galleries, as a block, an Elementor, Divi or WPBakery element, or a shortcode A duplicate finder Import from other folder plugins, and CSV Download a folder as a ZIP

What the AI adds

The AI features run on credits, and the price is shown before you run anything.

Describe a picture (alt text, title, caption): 1 credit Propose folders: 10 credits Search by meaning: 0 credits Free trial: 25 credits

Coming from Enhanced Media Library PRO?

{{ pSwitch }} for your first year of Pro, one site.

The button takes the first year of Pro, one site, down to {{ pSwitch }}; there is no code to ask for. It renews at {{ pSingle }} a year, and the checkout shows that before you pay. The offer is for Pro, one site, only.

Claim the discount

If you leave

Your folders stay, because they are ordinary WordPress terms. A folder downloads as a ZIP, and the whole tree as a CSV.

Get the free plugin
Affiliates

30% of the first payment, 10% off for your readers

For people who write about WordPress media libraries and alt text, and whose readers run their own sites. Each affiliate gets a code. A reader who uses it pays 10% less, and you earn 30% of their first payment.

30% of the first payment10% off for your readers€50 owed before a payout

The terms

What you earn. 30% of the first payment on every sale made with your code, VAT excluded. Renewals do not count; only the first payment does. Your code does not combine with the Enhanced Media Library switch offer, so a sale at the switch price earns no commission.

What your reader gets. 10% off their first payment with your code.

Which purchases count. Pro for one site, Pro for five sites, Agency, Lifetime and credit packs.

When a sale counts. Once the 14-day refund period has passed.

Payout. Monthly, once you are owed €50 or more, by bank transfer or PayPal.

Disclosure. You must say that you earn a commission wherever you recommend VergeLabs Media Library. We do not accept undisclosed endorsements.

What you may say. Do not make compliance or accessibility claims for the plugin. We send you wording that is safe to use.

How to apply

Email support@vergelabsmedia.com with a link to your site or to the article you have in mind. If it is a fit, we send you your code.

Email us to apply
Support

A person reads every message.

1 business day for licence holdersMon – Fri in EnglishGitHub issues for free users, read daily
Free users

GitHub issues

Open an issue on GitHub. We read it daily and answer there. The WordPress.org forum joins the moment the directory listing is live.

Pro and Agency

support@vergelabsmedia.com

Email from the address on your account, or open a ticket from your account page. Response target: one business day, Monday to Friday.

What to include

Your WordPress version, PHP version, active theme, a screenshot, and what you clicked before it happened.

Before you write Three things that solve most tickets on the spot
The System report copies everything we'll ask for
VergeLabs Library → Settings → Media Utilities → System report
Safe mode switches on by itself
After two fatal errors in an hour the plugin turns off everything except taxonomies. If the problem disappears, send us the System report.
The docs cover install, migration, licence and credits
Most tickets are answered on one of the three pages.
Read the docs
Security issues

security@in.vergelabs.nl. Please don't post them publicly. We acknowledge within 24 hours.

Feature requests

Email or the forum. We keep a public roadmap on the changelog page.
Troubleshooting

Enhanced Media Library not working on WordPress 7? The fix

On WordPress 7, the Enhanced Media Library media toolbar breaks: its extra filters stack into one tall block, and the author filter draws on top of the type filter. VergeLabs Media Library is a maintained fork of it that fixes both. Install it, deactivate the old plugin, and the toolbar is one row again.

Free to installSettings copied when you activate itNothing deleted your folders are WordPress terms

What breaks

The filters stack. WordPress 7.0 turned the media toolbar into a fixed two-column grid and gave a place to its own two filters only. The extra filters Enhanced Media Library adds had nowhere to go, so they stack into a block about 300 pixels tall, with every label above the wrong control.

The author filter overlaps the type filter. The two share one HTML id. That did not matter until WordPress began placing elements by id.

PHP 8 warnings. Four settings handlers read their nonce field before checking it was there, and four get_terms() calls still used an argument order deprecated in WordPress 4.5.

The fix

The toolbar is one row again. VergeLabs Media Library lays it out as one row however many filters you turn on, and gives the author filter the id its own label already pointed at.

Your settings are copied. Activating VergeLabs Media Library copies your Enhanced Media Library settings. The old plugin's own options are left as they were, so you can go back.

Your files do not move. Enhanced Media Library filed them under the same media_category taxonomy, so every category and folder assignment is already in place.

Then remove the old plugin. Deactivate Enhanced Media Library, activate VergeLabs Media Library, click through your library once, then delete the old one. If you install ours first, your site keeps working; you see each taxonomy twice until you deactivate the old plugin.

The full steps are in the install guide.

Questions

Is my media library damaged?

No. The toolbar problem is about layout. Your files and categories are untouched, and categories are ordinary WordPress terms.

Which WordPress versions does the fix cover?

VergeLabs Media Library works with WordPress 6.5 to 7.1 and PHP 7.4 to 8.5.

Do I have to pay to get the fix?

No. The toolbar, the folders and the filters are in the free plugin. The AI features run on credits and are optional.

Fix it today

Install the free plugin, then deactivate Enhanced Media Library.

Get the free plugin
Background

Is Enhanced Media Library abandoned?

Here is what is publicly true: Enhanced Media Library's last release was 2.9.4, in July 2024, and it is tested up to WordPress 6.5. Whether that counts as abandoned is your call. VergeLabs Media Library is a maintained fork of it, not affiliated with wpUXsolutions, and its current release is 4.1.0.

2.9.4 last release, July 20246.5 tested up to4.1.0 VergeLabs current release

What is public

The last release. Enhanced Media Library 2.9.4, July 2024.

The tested range. Tested up to WordPress 6.5. On WordPress 7.0 its media toolbar stacks its extra filters into one tall block and the author filter overlaps the type filter.

What we cannot tell you. Why there has been no release since, or whether one is coming. That is for wpUXsolutions to say.

What VergeLabs is

A maintained fork. VergeLabs Media Library started as a fork of Enhanced Media Library 2.9.4 and keeps what that plugin did: media categories and taxonomies, filters, MIME types and dynamic galleries. It is GPLv2 or later, as the original is.

Not affiliated. It is not made by, or affiliated with, wpUXsolutions.

Current. Version 4.1.0, for WordPress 6.5 to 7.1 and PHP 7.4 to 8.5. The source and the issue tracker are on GitHub.

Questions

Is VergeLabs Media Library affiliated with wpUXsolutions?

No. It is a fork of Enhanced Media Library 2.9.4, released under GPLv2 or later as the original is, and it is not made by wpUXsolutions.

Will my folders survive a move?

Yes. Enhanced Media Library filed your files under the media_category taxonomy, which VergeLabs Media Library uses too, so every assignment is already in place. Activating it also copies your Enhanced Media Library settings.

Does moving cost anything?

No. The plugin is free. The AI features run on credits and are optional.

Try the maintained fork

Free, and your Enhanced Media Library settings are copied when you activate it.

Get the free plugin
Switch offer

Enhanced Media Library PRO replacement

{{ pSwitch }} for your first year of Pro, one site, if you are moving from Enhanced Media Library. VergeLabs Media Library, a maintained fork of it, is the plugin; the button applies the offer and there is no code to ask for. Pro renews at {{ pSingle }} a year.

{{ pSwitch }} first year of Pro, one siteNo code the button applies itFree plugin works without Pro

The offer

The price. The first year of Pro, one site, is {{ pSwitch }}. It renews at {{ pSingle }} a year, and the checkout shows that before you pay.

One site only. The offer is for Pro, one site, only.

No code. The button below takes you to the checkout with the offer applied.

What Pro, one site includes

2,000 credits a year. One credit describes one picture (alt text, title, caption). Searching by meaning costs no credits, and proposing folders costs 10.

The free plugin needs no Pro. The folder tree, smart folders, folder galleries, the duplicate finder and the import tools are free, with no licence and no account. Your Enhanced Media Library settings are copied when you activate it.

New to the plugin? Start with the install guide.

Questions

Do I need a code?

No. There is no code to ask for; the button applies the offer.

What happens after the first year?

Pro, one site, renews at {{ pSingle }} a year. Yearly plans can be cancelled any time.

Does the offer cover the five-site plan?

No. The offer is for Pro, one site, only.

Claim the first year

{{ pSwitch }} for the first year of Pro, one site.

Claim the discount
Alternative

FileBird alternative: folders that are WordPress terms

If you are looking for a FileBird alternative, this is how VergeLabs Media Library works: a file can sit in more than one folder, and your folders are ordinary WordPress terms, so they are still there if you remove the plugin. It is free, and it imports folders from other folder plugins, FileBird among them, and from CSV.

Free folder tree, no accountSeveral folders for one fileFolders stay if you remove the plugin

How folders work here

A file can be in more than one folder. Dragging a file moves it, as on your desktop. Hold Ctrl while dropping and it is added to that folder as well: the same photo in Products and in Autumn Campaign, without a second copy of it. A setting makes every drop a move if you want one folder per file.

Folders are WordPress terms. Folder structure is not kept in a table of ours. Folders are ordinary media categories (the media_category taxonomy), so WordPress, your theme, WP-CLI and other plugins can read them, and they stay intact if you remove the plugin.

Folders can be galleries. A block, an Elementor, Divi or WPBakery element, or the [vergeml_gallery] shortcode shows a folder, and new images in it appear on every page that uses it.

Moving from FileBird

Import with a preview. Import folders reads other folder plugins, FileBird among them, and CSV. It shows what it will do first, says which folders will merge with ones you already have, and the whole import can be undone from the same screen.

Nothing is taken from the other plugin. It keeps everything as it was, so you can go back. Running two folder plugins at once is not recommended; bring the folders across, then deactivate the other plugin.

What this page covers. It describes VergeLabs Media Library only. For FileBird's own features and pricing, see FileBird's documentation.

Questions

Can I import my FileBird folders?

Yes, under Import folders. You see a preview first, and the import can be undone. FileBird is left as it was.

Can one picture be in two folders?

Yes. Hold Ctrl while dropping a file and it is added to the second folder. Without Ctrl, a drop moves it.

What happens to my folders if I remove the plugin?

They stay. Folders are ordinary WordPress terms in the media_category taxonomy, not a private table.

Try it on your own library

Free, with no licence and no account.

Get the free plugin
Alternative

Real Media Library alternative: folders that are WordPress terms

If you are looking for a Real Media Library alternative, this is how VergeLabs Media Library works: a file can sit in more than one folder, and your folders are ordinary WordPress terms, so they are still there if you remove the plugin. It is free, and it imports folders from other folder plugins, Real Media Library among them, and from CSV.

Free folder tree, no accountSeveral folders for one fileFolders stay if you remove the plugin

How folders work here

A file can be in more than one folder. Dragging a file moves it, as on your desktop. Hold Ctrl while dropping and it is added to that folder as well: the same photo in Products and in Autumn Campaign, without a second copy of it. A setting makes every drop a move if you want one folder per file.

Folders are WordPress terms. Folder structure is not kept in a table of ours. Folders are ordinary media categories (the media_category taxonomy), so WordPress, your theme, WP-CLI and other plugins can read them, and they stay intact if you remove the plugin.

Folders can be galleries. A block, an Elementor, Divi or WPBakery element, or the [vergeml_gallery] shortcode shows a folder, and new images in it appear on every page that uses it.

Moving from Real Media Library

Import with a preview. Import folders reads other folder plugins, Real Media Library among them, and CSV. It shows what it will do first, says which folders will merge with ones you already have, and the whole import can be undone from the same screen.

Nothing is taken from the other plugin. It keeps everything as it was, so you can go back. Running two folder plugins at once is not recommended; bring the folders across, then deactivate the other plugin.

What this page covers. It describes VergeLabs Media Library only. For Real Media Library's own features and pricing, see Real Media Library's documentation.

Questions

Can I import my Real Media Library folders?

Yes, under Import folders. You see a preview first, and the import can be undone. Real Media Library is left as it was.

Can one picture be in two folders?

Yes. Hold Ctrl while dropping a file and it is added to the second folder. Without Ctrl, a drop moves it.

What happens to my folders if I remove the plugin?

They stay. Folders are ordinary WordPress terms in the media_category taxonomy, not a private table.

Try it on your own library

Free, with no licence and no account.

Get the free plugin
Alt text

Bulk alt text for WordPress, at 1 credit a picture

VergeLabs Media Library describes the pictures in your library at 1 credit a picture, and every site can try it on 25 free credits. It fills empty alt text only, so alt text you have already written stays. A run starts when you start it, and you can stop it.

1 credit a picture25 credits free to tryExisting alt text is kept

What it does

It describes what the picture shows. Alt text and captions are written from what the picture shows and, with Page context on, the page it is on.

It fills the empty ones. Only empty alt text is filled; existing alt text stays.

You start it. A run begins when you start it and can be stopped. Nothing is described on its own in the background.

You can count the gap. The Missing alt text smart folder, free in the plugin, lists the pictures that still have none.

What it costs

1 credit a picture. That covers the alt text, title and caption for that picture. 1,000 pictures is 1,000 credits.

25 free credits. Every site can try it free on 25 pictures, without a card.

Then credits or Pro. Credits come in packs, or with Pro: Pro, one site, includes 2,000 credits a year. See pricing.

Questions

Does it describe pictures automatically when I upload them?

No. It runs when you start it, one run at a time.

Will it overwrite alt text I wrote?

No. Only empty alt text is filled; existing alt text stays.

What would 1,000 pictures cost?

1,000 credits, at 1 credit a picture. The free trial is 25 credits, and Pro, one site, includes 2,000 credits a year.

Try it on 25 pictures

Install the free plugin; the 25 trial credits need no card.

Get the free plugin
Alternative

HappyFiles alternative: folders that are WordPress terms

If you are looking for a HappyFiles alternative, this is what VergeLabs Media Library offers: a drag-and-drop folder tree, a file that can sit in more than one folder, and folders that are ordinary WordPress terms, so they are still there if you remove the plugin. It is free. Import folders reads other folder plugins, HappyFiles among them, and CSV.

Free folder tree, no accountSeveral folders for one fileFolders stay if you remove the plugin

How folders work here

One file, more than one folder. Dragging a file moves it. Hold Ctrl while dropping and it is added to that folder as well: the same photo in Products and in Autumn Campaign, without a second copy. A setting makes every drop a move if you want one folder per file.

Folders are WordPress terms. Folder structure is not kept in a table of ours. Folders are ordinary media categories (the media_category taxonomy), so WordPress, your theme, WP-CLI and other plugins can read them, and they stay intact if you remove the plugin.

Folders can be galleries. A block, an Elementor, Divi or WPBakery element, or the [vergeml_gallery] shortcode shows a folder, and new images in it appear on every page that uses it.

Moving from HappyFiles

Import with a preview. Import folders reads other folder plugins, HappyFiles among them, and CSV. It shows what it will do first, says which folders will merge with ones you already have, and the whole import can be undone from the same screen.

Nothing is taken from the other plugin. It keeps everything as it was, so you can go back. Running two folder plugins at once is not recommended; bring the folders across, then deactivate the other plugin.

What this page covers. It describes VergeLabs Media Library only. For HappyFiles's own features and pricing, see HappyFiles's documentation.

Questions

Can I import my HappyFiles folders?

Yes, under Import folders. You see a preview first, and the import can be undone. HappyFiles is left as it was.

Can one picture be in two folders?

Yes. Hold Ctrl while dropping a file and it is added to the second folder. Without Ctrl, a drop moves it.

What happens to my folders if I remove the plugin?

They stay. Folders are ordinary WordPress terms in the media_category taxonomy, not a private table.

Try it on your own library

Free, with no licence and no account.

Get the free plugin
Alternative

WP Media Folder alternative: folders that are WordPress terms

If you are looking for a WP Media Folder alternative, this is what VergeLabs Media Library offers: a drag-and-drop folder tree, a file that can sit in more than one folder, and folders that are ordinary WordPress terms, so they are still there if you remove the plugin. It is free. Import folders reads other folder plugins, WP Media Folder among them, and CSV.

Free folder tree, no accountSeveral folders for one fileFolders stay if you remove the plugin

How folders work here

One file, more than one folder. Dragging a file moves it. Hold Ctrl while dropping and it is added to that folder as well: the same photo in Products and in Autumn Campaign, without a second copy. A setting makes every drop a move if you want one folder per file.

Folders are WordPress terms. Folder structure is not kept in a table of ours. Folders are ordinary media categories (the media_category taxonomy), so WordPress, your theme, WP-CLI and other plugins can read them, and they stay intact if you remove the plugin.

Folders can be galleries. A block, an Elementor, Divi or WPBakery element, or the [vergeml_gallery] shortcode shows a folder, and new images in it appear on every page that uses it.

Moving from WP Media Folder

Import with a preview. Import folders reads other folder plugins, WP Media Folder among them, and CSV. It shows what it will do first, says which folders will merge with ones you already have, and the whole import can be undone from the same screen.

Nothing is taken from the other plugin. It keeps everything as it was, so you can go back. Running two folder plugins at once is not recommended; bring the folders across, then deactivate the other plugin.

What this page covers. It describes VergeLabs Media Library only. For WP Media Folder's own features and pricing, see WP Media Folder's documentation.

Questions

Can I import my WP Media Folder folders?

Yes, under Import folders. You see a preview first, and the import can be undone. WP Media Folder is left as it was.

Can one picture be in two folders?

Yes. Hold Ctrl while dropping a file and it is added to the second folder. Without Ctrl, a drop moves it.

Does the folder tree need a licence?

No. The folder tree, the five smart folders, the folder gallery and the duplicate finder are free, with no licence and no service.

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Media Library Assistant alternative: folders and optional AI alt text

If you are looking for a Media Library Assistant alternative, this is what VergeLabs Media Library offers: a drag-and-drop folder tree, five smart folders and a duplicate finder, all free, with folders that are ordinary WordPress terms. AI alt text is an option on top, at 1 credit a picture, with 25 free credits to try.

Free folder tree and smart foldersFolders stay if you remove the plugin1 credit a picture for AI alt text

What is free

A folder tree. Drag files into folders. Hold Ctrl while dropping and a file is added to a second folder as well. Uploads go into the folder that is open.

Five smart folders. Unused media, Missing alt text, Large files, Unattached and This month, ready to open without setting anything up.

Duplicates and ZIP. The Duplicates screen finds copies by hashing, without a call to any service, and a folder can be downloaded as a ZIP.

Folders are WordPress terms. Folders are ordinary media categories (the media_category taxonomy), so WordPress, your theme, WP-CLI and other plugins can read them, and they stay intact if you remove the plugin.

What is optional

AI alt text. Describing a picture costs 1 credit, and a run starts when you start it. Only empty alt text is filled; existing alt text stays.

A trial first. Every site can try it on 25 free credits, without a card. After that, credits come in packs or with Pro, one site, which includes 2,000 credits a year.

What this page covers. It describes VergeLabs Media Library only. For Media Library Assistant's own features, see its documentation.

Questions

Do I need AI to use the folders?

No. The folder tree, smart folders, folder gallery and duplicate finder are free and need no licence or service.

What happens to my folders if I remove the plugin?

They stay. Folders are ordinary WordPress terms in the media_category taxonomy, not a private table.

Can I bring folders from another folder plugin?

Yes, under Import folders. It reads other folder plugins and CSV, shows a preview first, and the import can be undone.

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Free, with no licence and no account.

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Alt text

AltText.ai alternative: alt text at 1 credit a picture

If you are looking for an AltText.ai alternative, this is how VergeLabs Media Library describes pictures: 1 credit a picture, 25 free credits to try, and only empty alt text is filled, so alt text you have already written stays. A run starts when you start it, and you can stop it. The plugin is also your media library: folders are free.

1 credit a picture25 credits free to tryExisting alt text is kept

How describing works here

It describes what the picture shows. Alt text and captions are written from what the picture shows and, with Page context on, the page it is on. The title and caption come with the same credit.

It fills the empty ones. Only empty alt text is filled; existing alt text stays.

You start it. A run begins when you start it and can be stopped. Nothing is described on its own in the background.

You can count the gap. The Missing alt text smart folder, free in the plugin, lists the pictures that still have none.

What it costs, and what else is in the plugin

1 credit a picture. 1,000 pictures is 1,000 credits. Credits come in packs, or with Pro: Pro, one site, includes 2,000 credits a year. See pricing.

25 free credits. Every site can try it on 25 pictures, without a card.

Folders, free. A drag-and-drop folder tree and five smart folders, kept as ordinary WordPress terms that stay if you remove the plugin.

What this page covers. It describes VergeLabs Media Library only. For AltText.ai's own features and pricing, see AltText.ai's documentation.

Questions

Does it describe pictures automatically when I upload them?

No. It runs when you start it, one run at a time.

Will it overwrite alt text I wrote?

No. Only empty alt text is filled; existing alt text stays.

What would 1,000 pictures cost?

1,000 credits, at 1 credit a picture. The free trial is 25 credits, and Pro, one site, includes 2,000 credits a year.

Try it on 25 pictures

Install the free plugin; the 25 trial credits need no card.

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Page builders

Elementor media folders: show a folder as a gallery

VergeLabs Media Library gives the WordPress media library a drag-and-drop folder tree, free, and a folder can be shown in Elementor as a gallery element. New images added to the folder appear on every page that uses it. Folders are ordinary WordPress terms, so they stay if you remove the plugin.

Free folder tree and galleryElementor element for a folderNew images appear on their own

Folders in the media library

A folder tree. Drag files into folders. Hold Ctrl while dropping and a file is added to a second folder as well. Uploads go into the folder that is open.

Folders are WordPress terms. Folders are ordinary media categories (the media_category taxonomy), so WordPress, your theme, WP-CLI and other plugins can read them, and they stay intact if you remove the plugin.

Smart folders. Unused media, Missing alt text, Large files, Unattached and This month, free.

A folder as a gallery in Elementor

An Elementor element. The folder gallery is available as an Elementor element: add it to a page and choose the folder.

New images appear. Images added to the folder later show up on every page that uses it.

Other ways to show a folder. The same folder can be shown with a block or with the shortcode [vergeml_gallery folder="12"].

Checked in a browser. Elementor is one of six page builders the plugin has been verified with in a browser.

Questions

Is there an Elementor element?

Yes. The folder gallery is available as an Elementor element, as a block, and as the [vergeml_gallery] shortcode.

If I add pictures to the folder, do they show in Elementor?

Yes. New images in the folder appear on every page that uses it.

Does it need a licence?

No. Folders and the folder gallery are free, with no licence and no account.

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Page builders

Divi media folders: show a folder as a gallery

VergeLabs Media Library gives the WordPress media library a drag-and-drop folder tree, free, and a folder can be shown in Divi as a gallery element. New images added to the folder appear on every page that uses it. Folders are ordinary WordPress terms, so they stay if you remove the plugin.

Free folder tree and galleryDivi element for a folderNew images appear on their own

Folders in the media library

A folder tree. Drag files into folders. Hold Ctrl while dropping and a file is added to a second folder as well. Uploads go into the folder that is open.

Folders are WordPress terms. Folders are ordinary media categories (the media_category taxonomy), so WordPress, your theme, WP-CLI and other plugins can read them, and they stay intact if you remove the plugin.

Smart folders. Unused media, Missing alt text, Large files, Unattached and This month, free.

A folder as a gallery in Divi

A Divi element. The folder gallery is available as a Divi element: add it to a page and choose the folder.

New images appear. Images added to the folder later show up on every page that uses it.

Other ways to show a folder. The same folder can be shown with a block or with the shortcode [vergeml_gallery folder="12"].

Checked in a browser. Divi 5 is one of six page builders the plugin has been verified with in a browser.

Questions

Is there a Divi element?

Yes. The folder gallery is available as a Divi element, as a block, and as the [vergeml_gallery] shortcode.

If I add pictures to the folder, do they show in Divi?

Yes. New images in the folder appear on every page that uses it.

Does it need a licence?

No. Folders and the folder gallery are free, with no licence and no account.

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Folders

WooCommerce media library folders: sort the pictures into folders

VergeLabs Media Library gives the WordPress media library a drag-and-drop folder tree, free. A shop's pictures can be sorted into folders such as Products and Autumn Campaign, the same picture can sit in both, and the folders are ordinary WordPress terms, so they stay if you remove the plugin.

Free folder tree, no accountSmart folders for unused and large filesFolders stay if you remove the plugin

Sorting a library

A folder tree. Drag files into folders. Hold Ctrl while dropping and a file is added to a second folder as well, without a second copy. Uploads go into the folder that is open.

Five smart folders. Unused media, Missing alt text, Large files, Unattached and This month, ready to open without setting anything up.

Duplicates and ZIP. The Duplicates screen finds copies by hashing, without a call to any service, and a folder can be downloaded as a ZIP.

Showing and describing

Folders can be galleries. A block, an Elementor, Divi or WPBakery element, or the shortcode [vergeml_gallery folder="12"] shows a folder, and new images in it appear on every page that uses it.

Alt text, if you want it. Describing a picture costs 1 credit, and every site can try it on 25 free credits. Only empty alt text is filled; existing alt text stays.

What this page covers. It describes what VergeLabs Media Library does in the media library. It makes no claim about WooCommerce itself.

Questions

Is the folder tree free?

Yes. The folder tree, smart folders, folder gallery and duplicate finder are free, with no licence and no service.

Can one picture be in two folders?

Yes. Hold Ctrl while dropping a file and it is added to the second folder. Without Ctrl, a drop moves it.

What happens to my folders if I remove the plugin?

They stay. Folders are ordinary WordPress terms in the media_category taxonomy, not a private table.

Try it on your own library

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Fix

WordPress media library broken after an update

If the media library toolbar looks wrong after updating to WordPress 7 and you use Enhanced Media Library, you may be seeing what VergeLabs Media Library 4.1.0 fixes: the extra toolbar filters stack into a block about 300 pixels tall, with labels above the wrong control, and the author filter overlaps the type filter. The fork works with WordPress 6.5 to 7.1 and PHP 7.4 to 8.5, and it is free.

One row for the toolbar filtersFolders kept when you switchFree no licence needed

What 4.1.0 fixes

The toolbar filters. The fork lays the filters out in one row, and gives the author filter its own id so it no longer draws on top of the type filter.

PHP 8 warnings. It removes PHP 8 warnings in the settings handlers.

Deprecated calls. It removes deprecated get_terms() calls.

Switching without losing anything

Your categories are already there. VergeLabs Media Library uses the same media_category taxonomy as Enhanced Media Library, so the categories and folder assignments it made are in place after switching.

Your settings are copied. Activating VergeLabs Media Library copies your Enhanced Media Library settings automatically.

If something still looks off. Safe mode switches on by itself after two fatal errors in an hour. Under Settings → Media Utilities there is a System report you can send to support with a screenshot.

What this page covers. VergeLabs Media Library is a maintained fork of Enhanced Media Library, not affiliated with wpUXsolutions.

Questions

Will I lose my folders if I switch?

No. Both plugins use the media_category taxonomy, so the categories and folder assignments are already in place.

Does it work on WordPress 7?

Yes. 4.1.0 works with WordPress 6.5 to 7.1 and PHP 7.4 to 8.5.

What if the media library still breaks?

Write to support with a screenshot and the System report from Settings → Media Utilities. Safe mode switches on by itself after two fatal errors in an hour.

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