Stop hunting for photos. Start searching for them.
The Tagrly plugin makes every photo you own findable from inside WordPress: type what you need, or let it suggest the photos for the post you're writing. Works with your existing Media Library, Google Drive, or Dropbox. Alt text comes finished.
Version 1.9.1 · WordPress 6.5+ · free, connects to any Tagrly plan
One search box, everywhere WordPress asks for an image.
Type keywords for instant results, or write a whole idea ("three friends laughing at a table by the window") and hand it to Tagrly AI, which reads the meaning, not just the words.
Editor sidebar
Search and insert without leaving the post. A restaurant finds its brunch spreads, a gym its class photos, a photographer the client gallery shot with the veil actually in focus.
Suggest
Reads the title and everything written so far, then proposes matching photos with rewritten alt text, including a lead image. One click sets a suggested featured image.
The native media modal
A Tagrly tab inside Featured Image and classic Add Media, with import into the Media Library.
Empty image blocks
A Search Tagrly shortcut right on the placeholder.
Media → Tagrly photos
A browse page for finding and importing photos outside any editing session.
Import your existing Media Library
One click registers the site; Tagrly pulls and analyzes the photos already in WordPress. Automatic image tagging organizes years of uploads into a searchable library, and the image SEO debt clears with bulk alt text — without moving a single file.
Alt text write-back
Fill every image that has no alt text with Tagrly's finished descriptions. Anything a person already wrote is kept.
Adapt with AI
The library has a near match but not the exact shot? Describe the change (what's on the screens, the jerseys, the season) and get a photorealistic variant of your own photo, with a keep-these-people option when people are detected.
Honest gaps
When your library genuinely lacks a shot, Suggest says so and lists what would help, instead of padding results.
Three steps, and the first is a download.
Upload and activate
Download the plugin zip, then in wp-admin go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, and activate it.
Connect to Tagrly
Open Settings → Tagrly and click Connect to Tagrly. A workspace owner or admin approves it on tagrly.com; the site gets its own access key automatically, and you can revoke it any time from either side.
Open any post
Look for the Tagrly icon in the editor toolbar. That's it: your library is searchable.
No Tagrly account yet? Start free. You don't even need photos in Google Drive or Dropbox: the plugin can import your existing WordPress Media Library and Tagrly analyzes that into your searchable library.
Updating: download the latest zip from this page and upload it the same way; WordPress replaces the old version and keeps your settings.
Sitting on years of untagged images? Make your existing Media Library searchable, with bulk alt text.
The plugin is free.
Keyword search is free and unlimited on every plan.
The AI features spend credits from your workspace's monthly allowance, stated on the button before you click: a Tagrly AI search or a round of suggestions spends one credit, an AI photo adaptation spends ten. Every plan has a monthly allowance, including the free one, and pricing lists the exact numbers.
Where inserted images live is your choice.
Per site, in the plugin settings.
Served from your Tagrly CDN (default)
Compressed, web-optimized copies, no duplicate files in WordPress.
Imported into the Media Library
Every insert becomes a local copy with the SEO filename and alt text, which plays nicest with backup and CDN plugins that only see the library.
Agents get the same library.
The plugin registers WordPress Abilities, so AI agents working inside your site can search the library, describe a shot, or request a curated set for a page, through the same capability-gated routes the editor uses. The Tagrly key stays server-side either way. Building outside WordPress? The same catalog is available as an MCP server and a plain HTTP API.
Put your library inside the editor.
Free plugin. Your first 100 photos are read free, no card.