Media Library Enable Infinite Scrolling

by David Baumwald

Description

After WordPress 5.8 is released, infinite scrolling will be removed by default from the Media Library. See Trac ticket 50105 for the releated changeset and ticket 40330 for the historical context behind the decision.

This plugin, for the short term, is a global re-enabling of infinite scrolling in the Media Library for all users.

A potential future enhancement is to have a per-user setting, letting individual users decide what’s best for them.

Reviews

Works beautifully!

By duciplandica on June 5, 2025

This plugin works beautifully. No ads or annoying issues. The way WP should have stayed! Thank you!

YES

By Sirmadsen (Nesdam1981) on July 16, 2024

I will never understand the incompetent decision to remove this in the first place, or at least give us the option to infinite load. I have more than 2k items in my media library and clicking that damn load more buttons is a task in it self.

Thanks for this!

Best little plugin to come out of Florida!

By Mary Baum (marybaum) on March 4, 2024

Love this, love this, love this!

Exactly what I needed

By Anna Meurer (almstudio) on February 13, 2024

Thanks for this solution.

Thank you for fixing wordpress feature broken by dumbs

By bestonline1 on September 14, 2023

Thank you!

excellent plugin to repair Automattic failure

By jgastmann on January 10, 2024

<p class="">Thank you David Baumwald for this great plugin which works perfectly and repairs a bug called "feature" in the WordPress media library.</p>

It does what it says.

By cmba on May 11, 2022

I have under a thousand images in my media library. Most of it shop stuff. This plugin lets me scroll without needing to press the Load more button.

Thank you!

By Colinbrowne on February 2, 2022

As a photographer with thousands of images in my media library I cannot live without this plugin. Now I don't have to click excessively to find images I want. Please keep this plugin updated and available forever, it's one of my standard installations on all my websites along with Classic Editor and Classic Widgets.

Perfect for Large Libraries

By paulbryantsmi on November 30, 2021

The “Load More” button in 5.8 was frustrating and slowed my workflow. This plugin relieved the issue and brought back infinite scrolling.

Excellent Huge Time Saver

By daniel1009 on November 15, 2021

I spent so much time clicking from page to page of pictures before hearing about this plugin. This plugin saves hours of frustration that another unwanted WordPress update has created.