Media Library Organizer organises attachments through a custom mlo-category taxonomy and leaves file metadata, size, MIME type, dimensions, and upload date, in the standard wp_posts and wp_postmeta rows that WordPress already writes for every attachment.

The default admin adds a category filter and a category browser to the media library, perfect for navigation but harder for the cross-category questions a marketing or ops team asks weekly. SleekView reads the mlo-category taxonomy joined to attachments and renders the result as one sortable table. Category sits next to file size, MIME type, uploader, and upload date so the heaviest assets, the largest categories, and the oldest uploads surface immediately.

Inline edits go through standard WordPress term assignment, so any plugin hook listening for mlo-category changes runs normally and the category browser updates its counts as expected.

Media Library Organizer takes a deliberately lightweight approach: a taxonomy on attachments, a category browser in the media library, and a few rules for auto-categorisation. That keeps the data model portable and theme-friendly, which is exactly why teams choose it. The trade-off is that the category browser is the only navigation, and answering questions across categories means walking through them one by one.

SleekView keeps the taxonomy intact and adds a sortable table on top. Marketing filters by campaign category, ops sorts by size for hotspots, auditors sanity-check whether the auto-categorisation rules actually balance the library or feed everything into a catch-all bucket.