WordPress – How to Bulk Edit Media Library Categories

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to bulk edit media library categories in WordPress.

The Media Library Categories plugin allows you to add categories to your WordPress Media Library files. You can classify your media files using categories, and this allows you to better organize your site.

However, you cannot apply bulk actions to your media library files. If you want to move files from one category to another, or if you want to assign new categories to your files, you need to edit them one at a time. That takes a lot of time, especially if you have hundreds or thousands of images, videos, and any other types of files.

That is why we will show you how to integrate Media Library Categories with WP Sheet Editor – Media Library plugin to bulk edit media library categories.

WP Sheet Editor allows you to manage all your media library files using an intuitive spradsheet.

You will learn how to:

• Edit image categories using the spreadsheet
• Search for media library files by category
• Bulk replace file categories to move files from one category to another

After installing and activating WP Sheet Editor, you can start bulk editing media library categories using the spreadsheet.

How to edit media categories in the spreadsheet

To set up the Media Library Spreadsheet, follow this guide.

Once you’re in the spreadsheet, you’ll see all your media library files displayed on it.

You will also see that the Categories column has been automatically added to the spreadsheet.

To edit the media library categories using the spreadsheet, just edit the values in the Categories column and click on Save once you’re done.

It’s great because it’s like using Excel or Google Sheets.

You can add several categories by separating them with commas.

How to search for media files by category

WP Sheet Editor contains a poweful search tool that allows you to filter your media library files using any field as a search parameter.

In this case, you can find media files by category.

Just open the Search tool with one click.

Now you need to enter the category of the files you want to find in the Enter Categories field, and click on Run search to find files based on the category.

You can see that, in this example, we have filtered the files containing the eCommerce category.

How to bulk edit media library categories

If you don’t want to spend some minutes editing the file categories using the spreadsheet (which is far better than editing library files one by one), you can bulk update categories with a few clicks.

How to select the files to edit

In the previous section of this tutorial, we filtered the media library files by category. But you can manually select the files you want to edit, using the checkbox picker column.

After selecting the files you will edit, you can open the Bulk Edit tool.

Now you can apply any bulk action to your selected media files.

For example, these are the values you need to select to move files from one category to another:

• Select the rows that you want to update: It depends on how you have selected the files.
• What field do you want to edit: Categories
• Select type of edit: Replace
• Replace this: Enter the old category
• With this: Enter the new category
• Click on Execute now.

This is how you can bulk edit media library categories using WP Sheet Editor. You can save a lot of time and boost your productivity.

Here’s a tutorial where you can learn how to export and import media library categories.