Thanks for your question and for the link to the example application, Media Valet.
As the name suggests, Media Library Assistant adds features to the WordPress Media Library. MLA relies on WordPress and/or themes and other plugins to provide many of the functions that products like Media Valet includes. MLA can be an element of a DAM solution; it’s a tool but I would not characterize it as a solution on its own. That said, here are some of the features MLA adds to WordPress:
- Taxonomy support – the ability to assign hierarchical terms (e.g. Att. Categories) and less formal tags (e.g., Att. Tags) to Media Library items so you can filter admin and end-user views of the library.
- Bulk and Quick edit – to make it easier to add or change values for caption, description, etc. on the Media/Assistant admin screen and during the new media upload process.
- Metadata mapping – to extract IPTC/EXIF/XMP metadata values from media files and use it to populate standard WordPress fields, taxonomy term assignments and custom field values.
- Shortcodes –
[mla_gallery] for gallery display and [mla_tag_cloud]/[mla_term_list] for displaying taxonomy terms used to filter a gallery display.
If you look through earlier support topics you can see many examples of applications for searching, filtering and displaying galleries of images, PDF documents and other assets. I am always happy to answer MLA-related questions and solve problems.
I hope that gives you a better sense of how MLA might fit as part of your application. I am marking this topic resolved, but please update it if you have further questions about the plugin. Thanks for your interest.
