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Media Folders

If you do not see this in your menu, your website does not use it.

Media Folders is a tidying tool. Your Media library is one long grid of files, newest first. A folder is a named group inside it, so you can keep one job, or one year, or one van, together.

Go to Plugins, then Media Folders.

Each folder comes with a photo album of the same name, under Content, then Gallery. Put photos in the folder and they turn up in that album too.

Making a folder

Section titled “Making a folder”
  1. Type a name in Folder name. Something a person would say out loud, like “Kitchen jobs”.
  2. Leave Slug empty. The panel fills it in for you.
  3. Click Create media folder.

The folder appears below, with its name, how many files it holds, and the album it is tied to.

Putting files in a folder

Section titled “Putting files in a folder”

Click Manage media on the folder. Your library appears under Add media.

The Add media part of the screen: a search box, a grid of photos with one checked, and a blue Add 1 selected button.

Pick as many as you like, then add them in one go.

  1. Click a photo. A blue check mark appears on it.
  2. Click as many more as you want.
  3. Click Add … selected at the bottom. The button counts what you picked.

Files already in this folder say Already in this folder and cannot be picked twice.

To take a file out, find it under In this media folder and click Remove. The file stays in your Media Library, and it stays in the album too. To take a photo out of the album, open the album and remove it there. Gallery shows you how.

Getting the album onto your website

Section titled “Getting the album onto your website”

Adding photos to a folder fills the matching album, but it does not decide what the public sees.

Go to Content, then Gallery, and open the album with the same name as your folder. If its Status says Draft, click Publish. Now the album is on your Gallery page.

Renaming and deleting

Section titled “Renaming and deleting”

Click Rename under a folder to change its name.

Everything else about photos, uploading them, writing alt text, using them on a page, is on the Media page.

Checked against EmDash 0.34.0 and Lookout Ridge IT template 0.11.8 on August 21, 2026.