Media Search Enhanced

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.

This plugin is made for:

• Search through all fields in Media Library, including: ID, title, caption, alternative text and description.
• Search Taxonomies for Media, include the name, slug and description fields.
• 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.