Export Media URLs

The fastest way to pull a complete inventory of your WordPress Media Library. Export every attachment’s details — pick exactly the columns you want from grouped, collapsible field sections with quick-select presets — then download a CSV or JSON file, or display the results in a paginated table right inside the dashboard. A separate Media Tools tab helps you audit and clean up the library. Invaluable for migrations, SEO and accessibility audits, and library cleanup.

Media Tools

Each tool lives on its own sub-tab and processes the library in pages (100, 250, 500, 1000 or All per page), so the scans stay fast and light even on libraries with thousands of items.

• Storage summary — attachment counts per media type, read straight from the database (instant)
• Missing file detector — find attachments whose file is gone from disk (e.g. after a bad migration)
• Duplicate detection — find files that are byte-for-byte identical (matched by size and content hash; choose “All” for a complete cross-library scan)
• Heavy image flags — spot oversized images (large file size or pixel dimensions) that slow your pages
• Bulk alt-text editing — review and update alt text image by image, page by page, with missing alt text highlighted

You can export each media item’s:

• ID
• Title
• File Name
• URL
• File Size
• MIME Type
• Dimensions (width x height)
• Thumbnail / Medium / Large image URLs
• Caption
• Alt Text
• Alt Missing (flag — quickly find images with no alt text)
• Description
• Parent Post and Parent URL
• Date Uploaded

The data can be filtered by media type (images, video, audio, documents, archives), by attachment status (attached vs. unattached/orphaned), by author, and between a date range before extraction. You can also export a specific item range to keep each request small on very large libraries.

When do we need this plugin?

• To check all Media URLs of your website
• During a migration (and to confirm everything moved across)
• During an SEO or accessibility audit (find images missing alt text)
• To clean up orphaned media imported by a theme demo
• During a security audit

Customizable Features

• Choose exactly which columns to export, grouped with quick-select presets (Migration, SEO/Accessibility, Cleanup, Full)
• Download as CSV or JSON, or display the results in a paginated table
• Filter by media type, attachment status, author and date range
• Export a specific item range (helpful on very large libraries)
• Custom or randomly generated download file name
• Remembers your last field selection
• CSV and JSON downloads stream straight to the browser, leaving nothing behind in wp-content/uploads

System requirements

• PHP version 5.4 or higher
• WordPress version 3.6 or higher

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Contact

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From your WordPress dashboard

1. Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’
2. Search for ‘Export Media URLs’
3. Activate Export Media URLs from your Plugins page.

From WordPress.org

1. Download Export Media URLs.
2. Unzip the plugin.
3. Upload the ‘export-media-urls’ directory to your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory, using your favorite method (ftp, sftp, scp, etc…)
4. Activate Export Media URLs from your Plugins page.

Usage

1. Go to Tools > Export Media URLs.
2. Tick the fields you want (or use a preset such as “SEO / Accessibility”).
3. Choose a media type, and optionally filter by attachment status, author or date range.
4. Click “Download” to get a CSV or JSON file, or “Display Here” to view the results in a paginated table.

Uninstalling:

1. In the Admin Panel, go to “Plugins” and deactivate the plugin.
2. Click “Delete” on the Plugins page. This removes the plugin files and its per-user preference automatically.

1. 

   The Export screen — pick fields from collapsible groups with quick-select presets, and filter by media type

2. 

   Results shown right in the dashboard, in a paginated table

3. 

   The Summary dashboard — library stats plus one-click access to every maintenance tool

4. 

   Duplicate Files — byte-for-byte identical files grouped for easy cleanup

5. 

   Bulk Alt-Text editing — fix missing alt text across the library, with missing rows highlighted

3.0

• New – Media Tools tab: storage summary, missing-file detector, duplicate detection, heavy-image flags, and bulk alt-text editing
• New – export MIME Type, Dimensions, Thumbnail/Medium/Large URLs, an “Alt Missing” flag, and Parent Post / Parent URL
• New – filter by media type (images, video, audio, documents, archives)
• New – filter by attachment status (attached vs. unattached/orphaned)
• New – JSON download format, alongside CSV and on-screen display
• New – field picker grouped into collapsible sections with quick-select presets; remembers your last selection
• New – on-screen results table now paginates with a “Results per page” selector
• Improvement – rewritten on a modular architecture, still PHP 5.4 compatible
• Improvement – exports run in batches and stream straight to the browser, leaving nothing behind in wp-content/uploads
• Improvement – removed the bundled select2 dependency; the interface now uses plain, dependency-free JavaScript
• Improvement – the whole interface is now translatable (POT included)
• Security – CSV formula-injection protection
• Security – hardened output escaping, nonce verification and input sanitization across all screens
• Fix – corrected the version mismatch and restored genuine PHP 5.4 compatibility

2.3.1

• Improvement – strengthened csv file name to prevent unauthorized discovery
• Compatibility – tested with WordPress 6.9.1

2.3

• Fixed – patched a security vulnerability

2.2

• Added – additional file size data field
• Improvement – preserves the previously selected values
• Compatibility – tested with wordpress 6.7.1

2.1

• Improvement – author filtering is simplified
• Compatibility – tested with wordpress 6.4.3

2.0

• Added – additional data fields (file name, caption, alt-text, description)
• Added – enables user to delete the file once downloaded
• Added – support for the translation
• Fixed – patched a security vulnerability
• Improvement – a few code refinements and validation checks
• Compatibility – tested with wordpress 6.4.1 & PHP 8.2.0

1.0

• initial release