Media Search Enhanced

1.0.0

• New: Multi-term search — use commas to search for multiple items at once anywhere in wp-admin, including the Media Library list view and the “Add Media” modal (e.g. sunset.jpg, logo.png). Limited to 10 terms. Frontend searches still treat commas as literal characters.
• Performance: Replaced LEFT JOINs + DISTINCT with EXISTS subqueries, eliminating temporary tables and improving search speed up to 10x on large media libraries.
• Performance: Numeric searches (e.g. searching by attachment ID) now use exact integer matching instead of string comparison, enabling primary key index usage.
• Compatibility: The plugin no longer overwrites the entire WHERE clause. Conditions from WordPress core and other plugins are now preserved.
• Security: Fixed reflected XSS in the search form placeholder.
• Security: Private attachments are now only visible to users with appropriate permissions (editors/admins see all; authors see only their own).
• Developer: Added mse_max_search_terms filter to customize the multi-term cap (default 10). Added mse_allow_multi_term_search filter to customize where multi-term search is allowed; defaults to is_admin().

0.9.2

• Security enhancements.

0.9.1

• Fix: Prevent “Not unique table/alias: wp_postmeta” SQL error by aliasing the postmeta JOIN. Props @mikemeinz. See https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sql-syntax-error-26/

0.9.0

• Added the languages pt_BR and es_ES. Thanks to @larodiel.
• Fixed an issue when searching for images in the Image block, the plugin caused the HTTP 500 error. Also thanks to @larodiel.

0.8.1

• Fix PHP notices and updated the “Tested up to” field.

0.8.0

• Supporting MIME type and date filters when searching in the Media Library. Thanks to @jedifunk for spotting this bug.

0.7.3

• Fix PHP warnings. Thanks to @DavidOn3.

0.7.2

• Bug fix: Make the search work with WPML Media – All languages.
• Filter the search form if it’s on the media search results page.
• Make the images clickable in the search results. Can be disabled by setting the filter mse_is_image_clickable to false.

0.7.1

• Bug fix: Remove duplicate search results when WPML plugin is activated, THE RIGHT WAY.

0.7.0

• Remove duplicate search results when WPML plugin is activated. Props @joseluiscruz.

0.6.1

• Security update: use $wpdb->prepare to process SQL statements. Thanks to @daxelrod for this.

0.6.0

• Add ID to search fields.
• Modify the clauses with posts_clauses filter.

0.5.4

• Add filter mse_get_attachment_url to modify the attachment URLs in the media search results.

0.5.3

• Bug fix: Filtered excerpt should be returned, not echoed.

0.5.2

• Display thumbnails in the media search results.

0.5

• Use shortcode [mse-search-form] to insert a media search form in posts, which only searches for media files (through all fields).

0.4

• Search media file name.

0.3

• If there are Taxonomies for Media, search the name, slug and description fields.

0.2.1

• Add DISTINCT statement to SQL when query media in the “Insert Media” screen

0.2.0

• The first version