About this plugin
Your media, in good order.
MAIA stands for Media Asset Interface & Administration. It gives your
WordPress media a home on the
OpenStation desktop. Find an image,
file it into a folder, open it in the viewer, or prepare it for your next post —
all from the same window. Made by AllTerrainDeveloper, the developer behind AllTerrain
Forms and AllTerrain Photo Editor.
- Folders and collections — a real tree, drag tiles to file them, save
any search as a live collection. Create top-level folders or subfolders with
inline forms. Filing shows progress and a saved or retryable error message.
Deleting a folder keeps its media and moves its children up one level. Smart views for unattached, unfiled,
missing-alt, converted and duplicate files.
- Convert between formats — JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF and GIF, as a copy or
in place, one file or a whole selection. The server converts with the
Imagick/GD your host already has; formats your host lacks are encoded in
your browser instead (WebP/JPEG/PNG on the canvas, AVIF via a bundled
0).
- iPhone photos just work — HEIC uploads convert to JPEG on the way in,
on hosts whose Imagick reads HEIC.
- Replace in place — keep the attachment ID and retain the previous
original as a restorable version. Same-format replacements keep the URL.
Changing format changes the extension and URL, so you are offered to
update the posts that embed the old file.
- Posts follow the conversion — after converting, confirm once and watch
each post that used the image switch to the new file in a progress dialog.
Posts with revisions get a new one, so every change can be undone.
- The Optimization Wizard — scans the library for oversized images,
legacy formats, missing alt text and duplicate files; shows the findings;
applies the fixes you pick as a resumable batch.
- Used where? — every item shows the posts and settings using it, and
the delete dialog warns before you empty them.
- Made for the desktop — drag photos out of the grid into Gutenberg,
onto kanban cards, into wallpaper folders; drop files from your computer
straight into a folder; ⌘K commands; AI alt-text drafting; typed
Abilities so assistants can search, convert and file media with your
capability checks.
The classic Media Library is untouched, and deactivating removes every
surface. Uninstalling removes folders, collections and version files;
your current media attachments and files stay in the Media Library.
OpenStation is required (the plugin dependency slug is desktop-mode ).
The explorer is a native desktop window; without the shell, your folders
and data are safe and a signpost page under Media explains where the
product lives.
External services
AllTerrain MAIA has no telemetry, license server or service operated by its author.
Media browsing, conversion, EXIF reading and the wizard run on your site or
in your browser. The AVIF codec is bundled and loaded from your own site.
AI alt text is optional. Only after you click “Suggest alt text (AI)” and
confirm “Send and draft” are that image’s URL, title and caption sent through
OpenStation to the AI provider configured by your site administrator. That
provider may retrieve the image from its URL. No AI request is made by
opening a window or scanning the library. Review the selected provider’s
terms and privacy policy in your site’s AI provider configuration before
sending media. AllTerrain MAIA does not choose or configure a provider.
Source
com/AllTerrainDeveloper/MAIA-Media-Asset-Interface-Administration
The repository contains TypeScript in src/ and the Vite build configuration.
Run npm ci and npm run build:bundles. Readable JavaScript ships alongside
the minified bundles. Third-party notices are in assets/licenses/. The AVIF encoder is jSquash
0, compiled to
WebAssembly and bundled unmodified.