At WordCamp US this past August I was on a team on Contributor Day that built a WordPress plugin to bring a UI into WordPress for searching the WordPress Photo Directory within WordPress and importing images directly into your Media Library. There were 7 or 8 of us on the team, and part of my roll was getting it packaged and put on WordPress.org. That recently happened, and you can read a blog post about it here: https://make.wordpress.org/photos/2026/10/21/presenting-the-photofetch-plugin/
Its called PhotoFetch.
Make PhotosPresenting the PhotoFetch pluginIt has a UI under the Media Library menu for simply searching and importing, but it also integrates with the media chooser library in the editor, alongside the Media Library tab. PhotoFetch is a ne…