Beschrijving

Try it live in your browser — launch the WordPress Playground demo. Boots a WordPress instance with this plugin active and a Media Library seeded with 8 attachments, so you can see the cross-field search in action immediately. Searching mountain returns 6 hits (matches in filename and alt text included) — core WordPress search would only find 3.

Deze plugin is gemaakt voor:

Doorzoek alle velden in de mediabibliotheek inclusief: ID, titel, bijschrift, alternatieve tekst en beschrijving.
Zoek taxonomieën voor media, inclusief de naam, slug en beschrijving velden.
Search media file name.
Multi-term search — Anywhere in the WordPress admin (the Media Library list view at upload.php, the “Add Media” modal, and other admin screens), use commas to search for multiple items at once (e.g. image-a.jpg, photo-2.jpg). Matches attachments containing any of the terms. Limited to 10 terms per search. Frontend searches still treat commas as literal characters, as a query-amplification guard for public pages.
Use shortcode [mse-search-form] to insert a media search form in posts and template files. It will search for media by all fields mentioned above.

Schermafbeeldingen

Demo zoekopdracht op het mediabibliotheek scherm.
Demo search on the Insert Media – Media Library screen.

Installatie

Using The WordPress Dashboard

Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
Zoek naar ‘media-search-enhanced’
Klik op ‘Nu installeren’
Activeer de plugin op het plugin dashboard

Uploaden in het WordPress Dashboard

Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
Navigeer naar het ‘Upload’ gebied
Select media-search-enhanced.zip from your computer
Klik op ‘Nu installeren’
Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard

FTP gebruiken

Download media-search-enhanced.zip
Extract the media-search-enhanced directory to your computer
Upload the media-search-enhanced directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard

FAQ

Hoe kan ik media linken naar het bestand zelf in plaats van naar de pagina met bijlagen in de media zoekresultatenpagina?

Please add the following code to the functions.php in your theme:

function my_get_attachment_url( $url, $post_id ) {

    $url = wp_get_attachment_url( $post_id );

    return $url;
}
add_filter( 'mse_get_attachment_url', 'my_get_attachment_url', 10, 2 );

Beoordelingen

Frederickson 23 april 2026

Very, very happy with this plugin and the support received from the developer who was kind enough to add a massive time-saving update to this plugin which nows allows to search multiple images at the same time in the Wordpress multimedia image library by using a comma as separator between the images that you want to look up. This is a massive time saver if you want to look up ranges of different images / photos in your image library and for instance delete these when updating product or other image catalogs in Wordpress or Woocommerce websites / stores. Thanks a lot for the excellent update, Yoren! Frederick

bhasic 8 februari 2024

Searching with this will use all resources and cripple your site. Don’t install this. Developer doesn’t update this.

Tomas Eklund 21 december 2021

I’ve noticed that a few other users on the support pages have reported that this plugin, which hasn’t been updated for the last two years, no longer works as intended. In fact, it breaks the media library search functionality completely. I can attest to this. This is very unfortunate as the functionality that this plugin seemingly used to provide would be very useful to me.

waterdandelions 1 november 2019

I find this plugin really convenient because I name my media files only with alphabets, but I write the alternative text in my non-alphabetical language. After the installation, I can search both titles and ALT text. Also, it is a plus that it needs no set-up. I am really grateful to the developer for creating and maintaining this useful plugin.

Baharehtz 10 juli 2017 1 reactie

I had problems with finding in media library search the images that I have added in the passed few years, searching them with the file name wasn’t working at all.. till I installed this plugin, things start to work and I don’t have anymore this problem! Great job! Thanks.

Ken Gagne 29 maart 2017 1 reactie

This plugin was essential for my photoblog and its thousands of media library files. How else could I ever expect to find what I was looking for?

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Bijdragers & ontwikkelaars

“Media Search Enhanced” is open source software. De volgende personen hebben bijgedragen aan deze plugin.

“Media Search Enhanced” is vertaald in 3 localen. Dank voor de vertalers voor hun bijdragen.

Vertaal “Media Search Enhanced” in je eigen taal.

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Changelog

1.0.0

New: Multi-term search — use commas to search for multiple items at once anywhere in wp-admin, including the Media Library list view and the “Add Media” modal (e.g. sunset.jpg, logo.png). Limited to 10 terms. Frontend searches still treat commas as literal characters.
Performance: Replaced LEFT JOINs + DISTINCT with EXISTS subqueries, eliminating temporary tables and improving search speed up to 10x on large media libraries.
Performance: Numeric searches (e.g. searching by attachment ID) now use exact integer matching instead of string comparison, enabling primary key index usage.
Compatibility: The plugin no longer overwrites the entire WHERE clause. Conditions from WordPress core and other plugins are now preserved.
Security: Fixed reflected XSS in the search form placeholder.
Security: Private attachments are now only visible to users with appropriate permissions (editors/admins see all; authors see only their own).
Developer: Added mse_max_search_terms filter to customize the multi-term cap (default 10). Added mse_allow_multi_term_search filter to customize where multi-term search is allowed; defaults to is_admin().

0.9.2

Security enhancements.

0.9.1

Fix: Prevent “Not unique table/alias: wp_postmeta” SQL error by aliasing the postmeta JOIN. Props @mikemeinz. See https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sql-syntax-error-26/

0.9.0

Added the languages pt_BR and es_ES. Thanks to @larodiel.
Fixed an issue when searching for images in the Image block, the plugin caused the HTTP 500 error. Also thanks to @larodiel.

0.8.1

Fix PHP notices and updated the “Tested up to” field.

0.8.0

Supporting MIME type and date filters when searching in the Media Library. Thanks to @jedifunk for spotting this bug.

0.7.3

Fix PHP warnings. Thanks to @DavidOn3.

0.7.2

Bug fix: Make the search work with WPML Media – All languages.
Filter the search form if it’s on the media search results page.
Make the images clickable in the search results. Can be disabled by setting the filter mse_is_image_clickable to false.

0.7.1

Bug fix: Remove duplicate search results when WPML plugin is activated, THE RIGHT WAY.

0.7.0

Remove duplicate search results when WPML plugin is activated. Props @joseluiscruz.

0.6.1

Security update: use $wpdb->prepare to process SQL statements. Thanks to @daxelrod for this.

0.6.0

Add ID to search fields.
Modify the clauses with posts_clauses filter.

0.5.4

Add filter mse_get_attachment_url to modify the attachment URLs in the media search results.

0.5.3

Bug fix: Filtered excerpt should be returned, not echoed.

0.5.2

Toon thumbnails in de media zoekresultaten.

0.5

Use shortcode [mse-search-form] to insert a media search form in posts, which only searches for media files (through all fields).

0.4

Search media file name.

0.3

If there are Taxonomies for Media, search the name, slug and description fields.

0.2.1

Add DISTINCT statement to SQL when query media in the “Insert Media” screen

0.2.0

De eerste versie

Excellent plugin and support!

Don’t install, will cripple your site

No longer working – breaks media search completely

Wonderful plug-and-play plugin that lets me search through alt text

It saves me!

Essential!