Image Organizer Gallery

Image Organizer Gallery enhances WordPress’ media library by creating a fully organized, filterable, text-searchable, accessible gallery system. It includes WCAG/508 compliant modal viewing, taxonomy filters, AJAX pagination, and metadata display.

• Uses WordPress Media Library metadata
• Supports categories & tags for images
• Responsive shortcode gallery
• Fully accessible ARIA modal viewer
• Taxonomy filter bar
• Title/description text search filter
• Copy alt text to clipboard
• AJAX "Load More" pagination
• WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508 compliant

1. Upload the image-organizer folder to wp-content/plugins/
2. Go to WP Admin → Plugins
3. Activate the plugin
4. Use the shortcode [image_organizer] in any page or post

The plugin uses WordPress’ built-in metadata fields:

• Title
• Caption
• Description
• Alt text

To edit:

1. Go to Media → Library
2. Switch to List View
3. Select an image
4. Edit fields and click Update

The plugin enables Categories and Tags for media attachments.

1. Go to Media → Library
2. Select an image
3. Use sidebar to assign Categories and Tags
4. Click Update

The basic shortcode is:

[image_organizer]

You can customize columns, limits, categories & tags, and filter behavior.

Basic gallery

[image_organizer columns="4" limit="12"]

Enable category filter

[image_organizer show_filter="true" filter_taxonomy="category"]

Show only specific categories

[image_organizer categories="landscape,portraits"]

Tag-based filter

[image_organizer show_filter="true" filter_taxonomy="tag"]

Only images tagged "featured"

[image_organizer tags="featured" limit="16" columns="3"]

A search box appears above each gallery. It filters images by:

• Title
• Caption
• Description

Search is client-side and works with taxonomy filters.

The gallery loads images in batches. Clicking “Load More”:

• Fetches more images via AJAX
• Appends them to the grid
• Announces updates via ARIA live region

The modal displays:

• Large image
• Title
• Caption
• Description
• Alt text (with copy button)
• Download link

It supports ESC-to-close, focus trapping, and screen reader labels.

• ARIA-modal compliant dialog
• Focus trapping
• Live region announcements
• Accessible filter bar with aria-pressed
• Full keyboard navigation
• High-contrast outlines
• Reduced-motion support

The plugin is licensed under GPL-2.0 or later.