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The plug-in uses different user controls to define categories of an image in the media library.

1. Media library in list view

Open media library of WordPress and select list view option.

Now click any image in the library and it will open in detail. For category assignment, the plug-in now displays a couple of checkboxes to select the desired categories. This works fine and this is what I would expect.

2. Media library in tile view

However, I don't use the list view. I rather select the tile view in media library.

Now it I click an image, it opens in a dialog that does not have checkboxes for category selection. There simply is a text field that I have to enter the desired category. Furthermore, there is an additional input field 'Image link' that I don't even know, what it is used for. Text fields for category selection are very bad in terms of usability.

So my question is: Why does the plug-in not use checkboxes here for category selection as well? This would improve usability and is less error-prone than text fields. The same applies to the 'Add media' dialog in posts. There, we also have text fields instead of checkboxes.

This is a no-go for me. I really like the idea of the plug-in, but I cannot use it in my WordPress installations, when there are text fields to define media categories.

The infinite loading (and fall back load more button) are both not working when this plugin is active. I don't mind hitting the load more button if we can actually browse the media library.

When I make ajax calls I get a plugin error.
Looking at the code I found this in: wp-media-categories/wp-media-categories/includes/functions.php

function wp_media_categories_update_count_callback( $terms = array(), $media_taxonomy = 'media_category' )

$prepared = $wpdb->prepare( $sql, $media_taxonomy->name, $media_taxonomy->name );

$media_taxonomy is defined as a string but used as an object.

When activated, the plugin changes the post type of the front end search to 'attachment' which means posts aren't displayed in search results.

I would like to change the term 'media-category' that is used in the URI to address individual media categories. I've tested other plug-ins and they had an options page, where developers could set that part of the URI individually.

It would be neat, if you could add such a feature as well.