Finally a practical solution for managing client uploads

I work with an agency and we maintain quite a lot of WordPress websites. On some of them, clients also have direct access to the backend and Media Library.

This has always created the same problem: sooner or later someone uploads huge PNG files, images with unnecessary dimensions, inconsistent filenames, or simply the wrong file format. Then a few weeks later we get a message saying that a page has become slow and have to investigate what happened.

Kodlo Media Manager solves this problem at the source. Instead of constantly explaining upload requirements to every client, we can define the rules directly in WordPress and let the website enforce them. File formats, dimensions, file size, filenames and duplicate uploads can all be controlled in one place.

What I especially like is that it doesn’t try to become another complicated media optimization suite. It simply prevents bad files from entering the Media Library in the first place, which is exactly what we needed.

I originally found the plugin because it addressed a problem I had been dealing with for years. I liked the idea and implementation enough that I eventually decided to contribute to the project myself and help with development and testing.

For agencies managing websites where multiple people upload content, this is one of those small plugins that can prevent a surprising amount of future work.