Finally, a WordPress media library that looks great and works. Real folders, and no Pro version.
Sorting a WordPress media library means scrolling until you find the file. Refined Media Library gives it real folders, and a look you will not recognise.
Free, on WordPress.org: https://wordpress.org/plugins/doubley...
Chapters
0:00 Folders you can actually drag
0:22 The detail panel
0:38 Search, collections, bulk edits
1:02 Cleanup, and moving in from another plugin
1:18 Every setting, on one screen
What you get:
• Nested folders, as deep as you like. Drag one into another to re-parent it, drop it between two to reorder.
• Collections that cut across folders, so one image can sit in three of them without being copied three times.
• A side panel instead of that full-screen modal. Title, alt text, caption and description, editable on the spot.
• The list of posts that actually use a file, WooCommerce galleries included.
• Search that filters as you type, plus filters by type: images, SVG, PDF, video.
• Bulk select, then move or edit metadata on everything at once.
• An unused-media scanner. House rule: at the slightest doubt, the file counts as used. No false positives.
• WebP and AVIF on upload, with one quality slider.
• Alt text filled in from the filename when you left it empty. Runs on your server, talks to nobody.
Already using FileBird, Real Media Library, HappyFiles, Folders or Enhanced Media Library? One click brings your folders across. It reads their data without touching it, and you can undo the whole thing if you don't like what you see.
It's free. No Pro version holding the folders hostage, no banner nagging you to upgrade.
Under the hood the folders are ordinary WordPress taxonomies. Nothing moves on disk. Switch the plugin off and you're back to the stock library, everything where you left it.
Works the same with Bricks, Elementor, Gutenberg and Divi, because it improves the native library instead of replacing it.
On WordPress.org: https://wordpress.org/plugins/doubley...
Screenshots and details: https://doubleyoupi.com/plugins/refin...
Something broken, or missing? https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/...