Iris is the media library for Joomla 6. You drop in your photos and documents: Iris resizes them, renames them, compresses them to WebP, shows them as galleries on the site, and then tells you which ones are still in use.
Free, no site limit. A joomanji.eu account is required to download it. One package, placed in the Content menu as Iris Media Library.
Images ready for the web on upload
Resized to the right format
A 4032 px wide photo is brought within a 1600 × 1200 px frame. A smaller image is never enlarged, and a portrait photo keeps its orientation.
Renamed cleanly
IMG_20260930_101512.jpg becomes mysite-village-fair-01.webp. A readable name, no accents or spaces, built on a pattern you choose.
Compressed to WebP
In the screenshots above: 890 kB becomes 141 kB, 1.2 MB becomes 87 kB. Quality is adjustable, and PNG transparency is kept.
Everything is set once and for all in the Options: the frame, the quality, the name pattern, WebP conversion. The log says what was done, file by file, hiding nothing.
Your documents, neatly presented
A real thumbnail
The first page of each PDF becomes its thumbnail. Other documents carry a sheet in their family's colour: text, spreadsheet, presentation, archive.
What to know before clicking
Format, size, date, and an Open button for PDF files. The title shown is the description you gave, not the file name.
Counted and bundled
Every download is counted. A visitor can tick several documents, or take them all at once in a ZIP archive.
Recent Word, Excel and PowerPoint files are accepted from installation. A document dropped among the images moves by itself to the files folder.
Galleries of images and files
A selection or a folder
Choose media one by one, or give a folder: the gallery follows it, and what you drop there tomorrow shows up by itself.
Six layouts
Grid, masonry, carousel, main image and thumbnails, strip, list. The carousel never moves on its own.
Images and documents together
One gallery can mix photos and files to download. Edit it once: every article showing it follows.
Know what is still in use
Every file carries a badge: used, unused, or Trash when only trashed content references it. The Show where button names the articles, modules, menus and galleries involved. Iris searches Joomla content, template settings and files, and SP Page Builder and Droptables if installed.
Iris also checks before acting: it refuses to rename or delete a folder if a single file in it is still in use.
Lighten images already online
A ten-year-old site often carries photos of several megabytes. Iris lightens them one by one, by selection or folder by folder. Keeping the format and the name, no link changes. Switching to WebP, Iris rewrites the links in the content and redirects each old address. Originals are kept: everything can be undone until you confirm.
Accessible, and measured
All Iris colours come from Atum, the Joomla administrator template, and every contrast was measured in light and dark mode: no text below 4.5:1. Everything works with the keyboard. Iris pushes you to describe every image, and reuses the description wherever it is inserted.
What to know before installing
Iris is a package for Joomla 6: one component and three plugins, enabled on install. It speaks French, English, German and Spanish, and updates through the Joomla update server. A site on Joomla 4 or 5 keeps the former Iris 2.1.1 plugin, which shows the badges and produces the report.
Click a screenshot to see it larger. The archive installs through System, Install, Extensions. GNU GPL, version 2 or later.