Media Library Enhancements

[cricket346]

1. Ability to create your own folder structure within the media library. It is currently extremely difficult, not only to find files, but just to keep things organized. For example, if I create a landing page on my site, I would want to group all images for that landing page together in one folder that I can easily find. Just creating a folder by date doesn't work because the date changes every month and web development work can span several months.

The following items would also be welcome additions:

2. More options for the Bulk Update menu (resize, unattach, etc.)
3. Built-in functionality to unattach an image (I know there is a plugin to do this)
4. When accessing the library from writing a post/page, the ability to insert multiple items at the same time, rather than just one at a time.

I am actually kind of shocked that such things don't yet exist in WordPress since it has been around so long and has such a large contributing community.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Hi @cricket346, welcome to Trac! Thanks for the ticket.

Ability to create your own folder structure within the media library.

For reference, this was previously suggested in #23594 (also related: #23451).

Built-in functionality to unattach an image (I know there is a plugin to do this)

This is already possible in List mode, see #6820.

When accessing the library from writing a post/page, the ability to insert multiple items at the same time, rather than just one at a time.

This is already possible by either selecting multiple items using Ctrl key or creating a gallery.

[cricket346]

Thanks for the reply.
"For reference, this was previously suggested in #23594 (also related: #23451)."

Those posts are both 4 years old. Still no folder structure after 4 years?

[antpb]

There has been a lot of discussion on this topic in #47839

I am closing this ticket to keep the focus in that ticket.