how to only display details in media library

To answer your specific question, the “Add Media” window is created by WordPress, and does not have an option to display only the names of the images.

If you have 1,000 pictures, you may not want to use “Add Media” to display them by inserting the pictures in the body of your page.

I suggest you use the [mla_gallery] shortcode to display a gallery of the pictures. For example, these two shortcodes will display all of your pictures in pages of ten pictures each:

[mla_gallery columns=5 post_parent=all posts_per_page=10]
[mla_gallery columns=5 post_parent=all posts_per_page=10 mla_output="paginate_links,prev_next"]

The post_parent=all parameter will select all of the pictures in your Media Library, regardless of the parent post/page they are attached to. The posts_per_page=10 parameter divides the gallery into pages of ten pictures each.

The second shortcode uses the mla_output="paginate_links,prev_next" parameter to compose links that let you move from one page to another page.

You can find more information about these parameters in the Documentation tab. There are many other shortcode parameters that let you customize the selection of items to display and the format of the display.

I hope that gets you started on displaying the pictures in your Media Library.

Thank you very much for the answer,
[mla_gallery columns] is powerful, but the problem is, how to distinguish pics in different categories? For example, I only want to use [mla_gallery columns…] to display one specific category.. what command should I use?

You can find details on all the item selection parameters in the Settings/Media Library Assistant Documentation tab and in the WordPress Codex documentation for the WP_Query class. Have a look at the “Category Parameters”, “Tag Parameters” and “Taxonomy Parameters” sections in both places.

If you are using the WordPress “Categories” taxonomy, you would specify a search for “My Category” as:

[mla_gallery columns=5 category_name="my-category" posts_per_page=10]
[mla_gallery columns=5 category_name="my-category" posts_per_page=10 mla_output="paginate_links,prev_next"]

Note that you use the “slug” in the parameter, not the display name.

If you are using the MLA “Att. Category” taxonomy, the search would be:

[mla_gallery columns=5 attachment_category="my-category" posts_per_page=10]
[mla_gallery columns=5 attachment_category="my-category" posts_per_page=10 mla_output="paginate_links,prev_next"]

The search parameter replaces the post_parent=all parameter in the examples from my earlier post.

There are many other ways to select the pictures for a particular [mla_gallery]. I hope that gives you what you need to compose the galleries you want.

Thanks, I tried [mla_gallery columns=5 attachment_tag=*** post_parent=all posts_per_page=50] it works fine, but when I tried to add “prev” and “next”:
[mla_gallery columns=5 attachment_tag=*** post_parent=all posts_per_page=50 mla_output=”paginate_links,prev_next”]

it does not work! it does show ? Previous 1 2 3 4 … 21 Next ?, but no pics displayed in the page!!!

very appreciated

If you want to display a picture gallery and the pagination links on the same page you need two [mla_gallery] shortcodes; one for the gallery and one for the pagination links. That is what is shown in the examples above.

Do you have both shortcodes on the page, or did you just add the mla_output parameter to the first shortcode?

You can find more information and examples in the “Support for Alternative Gallery Output, e.g., Pagination” section on the Settings/Media LIibrary Assistant Documentation tab.