Media Library Folders

Media Library Folders for WordPress creates actual folders in your WordPress Media Library:

• Actual folders make it easier to organize your WordPress media library while reducing server burden.
• Add and build new Media library folders to label and organize as you wish instead of just month/date.
• Move, copy, rename and delete files and folders with a nice drag and drop interface
• Regenerate thumbnails.
• SEO Images to specify ALT and TITLE attributes when uploading.
• Sync folders/files when moving or uploading a folder via FTP.
• Create a MaxGalleria gallery.
• Block direct access for selected media library files

MLF adds to and works with the functionality of WordPress Media Library. It does not replace it.

Just what I was looking for! I use this on ALL my WordPress sites. I don’t know why you wouldn’t. It not only allows you to organize your image files in your WP site, but it also creates logical URL links to your files based on the folders you create and the name of the image file. So great! No more random numbers for image URL’s.

Great for organization and better media! WordPress’s default media folders didn’t work for us on a project with strict requirements on organizing their uploaded files. We had trouble finding a low-impact solution that fulfilled all requirements.

Media Library Plus solved all our issues, and we’ve been using it on a major site with 11 custom post types, hundreds of media files, and tons of other plugins/customizations — zero issues and exactly what we need!

MLP performs beautifully and provides great media management features and functionality! To make matters even better support is extremely fast and responsive to inquiries. Great stuff!

Block Direct Access

Media Library Folders now includes Block Direct Access, our pro version feature that prevents unauthorized downloads of proprietary media files:
* Protect unlimited media files
* Customized no access page
* Block Google Search from indexing your media files
* Prevent file hotlinking
* Restrict media library access
* Disable copy and right click
* Generate and limit private URLs
* Restrict access to private URLs by IP Address

With these features, site administrators can now block access to viewing or downloading files within the media library. To activate, go to the Block Direct Access tab in Media Library Folders Pro Settings and check the ‘Activate Block Direct Access’ option and click the Update Settings button. This create a folder in the media library, ‘protected-content’ For site that are using Apache, this action will also updates the sites .thaccess file to make the ‘protected-content’ folder inaccessible to internet users.

For those using Nginx or IIS (Windows Server), making the ‘protected-content’ inaccessible requires manually update the site’s configuration:

For Nginx, add these rewrite rules on your server configuration:

rewrite wp-content/uploads/protected-content(\/[A-Za-z0-9_@.\/&+-]+)+.([A-Za-z0-9_@.\/&+-]+)$ “/index.php?mlfp_bdp=$1&block_access=true” last;
rewrite private/([a-zA-Z0-9-_.]+)$ “/index.php?mlfp_bdp=$1” last;

For IIS, edit or create a web.config file in the root folder of your WordPress site and add these rules:

  <system.webServer>
    
      
        <!-- Block Direct Access Start -->
        <rule name=”Imported Rule 1″ stopProcessing=”true”>
          <match url=”private/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$” ignoreCase=”false”/>
          <action type=”Rewrite” url=”index.php?mlfp_bdp={R:1}” appendQueryString=”false”/>
        
        <rule name=”Imported Rule 2″ stopProcessing=”true”>
          <match url=”wp-content/uploads/protected-content(\/[A-Za-z0-9_@.\/&+-]+)+.([A-Za-z0-9_@.\/&+-]+)$” ignoreCase=”false”/>
          <action type=”Rewrite” url=”index.php?mlfp_bdp={R:1}&block_access=true&file_type={R:2}” appendQueryString=”true”/>
        
        <!-- Block Direct Access End -->
      
    
  </system.webServer>
  <system.web>
    <compilation debug=”true”/>
  </system.web>

Media Library Folders Pro for WordPress

Media Library Folders Pro for WordPress lets you:

• Select and add images to your posts and pages from the editor through MLFs integration
• Organize your media library folders with categories
• Enhanced Media Library and Media Library Folders Pro categories are interchangeable
• Create new MaxGalleria and NextGEN Galleries directly from your MLF folders
• Supports Advanced Custom Fields
• Use File Name View Mode for finding images in very large folders
• Add images to a WooCommerce product gallery
• Multi site supported

Using Media Library Folders for WordPress

Read the full description on the official page →