Filenames to latin

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Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.

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1 search this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 0 listed. 1 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 5 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 91% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 6 months ago and the previous band took 8.1 years to cross, so the real count is still just under 10K.

1. ★★★★★ norbou

   6.8y ago

   Great plugin. Everybody can extend character set by own easily. Thanks to the author, I have this plugin on all my websites.

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2. ★★★★★ Tomas Eklund

   8.5y ago

   I’m sorry to be the first to not give this plugin a 5-star rating. However, it appears that the plugin does not always sanitize the filenames of uploaded files. From my own experience, and by looking at the still open (1+ year old) support threads, it seems that the plugin does not handle files coming from OSX. Perhaps other OS’es are affected too. I’ve installed the plugin on many sites and now I see that on some sites there are hundreds of images with weird characters making them appear broken in many browsers. Trying to clean the mess up after the fact will be a tedious and boring job. Unfortunately, this plugin cannot be relied upon. This plugin goes through the effort of trying to map accented characters to ANSI counterparts, which is very nice. It’s much better than just wiping them all out. However, in those cases when the conversion fails the offending characters are left untouched. This is very bad. It would have been better if a final cleanup would just remove the “bad” characters from the file names, like some posters in the support forum have suggested.

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3. ★★★★★ pavelpes

   9.3y ago

   Konečně jsem našel plug-in, který zabrání mršit web klientům, kteří pořád nahrávají fotky s diakritikou. WordPress si s nimi poradí, ale při migraci na jiný hosting všechny soubory s českým názvem, zmizí… Moc děkuji autorovi Finally, I found a plug-in that prevents the Web site’s clients from still recording accented names of photos. WordPress will handle them, but when migrating to another hosting, all files with a Czech name will disappear … Thank you very much to the author

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4. ★★★★★ Rafał Bieleniewicz

   9.3y ago

   To jedna z podstawowych wtyczek które moim zdaniem powinno się posiadać. Dzięki niej nie pojawiają się problemy dotyczące polskich znaków w nazwach plików. Wystarczy instalacja i aktywacja. To jeden z moich ulubionych pluginów 🙂

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5. ★★★★★ madis

   10.0y ago

   Also, it prevents issues if names contain non-Latin characters.

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6. ★★★★★ Combinatix

   10.4y ago

   What else to say?

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7. ★★★★★ orvokki

   11.0y ago

   Absolutely great!! No more problems with missing images after moving a website 🙂 Thanks!

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8. ★★★★★ webvitalii

   11.7y ago

   Simple and effective.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. 2018-11-02 Version 2.6 Added special character used in Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian and Montenegrin languages (thanks to Apsolut – https://profiles.wordpress.org/apsolut ) 2.6
2. 2016-11-17 Version 2.5 Added support for Mongolian language (thanks to Jeremy Skelton) Added support for Slovak language (thanks to Corneliuscz) Bugfixing and adding new special chars 2.5
3. 2016-10-20 Version 2.4 Added support for Estonian language (thanks to Madis – https://profiles.wordpress.org/madis ) 2.4
4. 2016-10-16 Version 2.3 Added support for Latvian language (thanks to Degi) 2.3
5. 2016-06-05 Version 2.2 Added support for Finnish language (thanks to Subsup – https://wordpress.org/support/profile/subsup ) Minor refactoring 2.2
6. 2016-03-18 Version 2.1 Minor changes and code refactoring Published plugin to GitHub 2.1

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

This plugin’s searches fall outside the topics measured so far. See the topics measured so far.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-05-19 10K+ → 9K+ down after 2970 days in tier
2. 2018-04-01 9K+ → 10K+ up after 59 days in tier
3. 2018-02-01 8K+ → 9K+ up after 404 days in tier
4. 2016-12-24 6K+ → 8K+ up after 277 days in tier
5. 2016-03-22 5K+ → 6K+ up after 186 days in tier
6. 2015-09-18 4K+ → 5K+ up

Competes with

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Filenames to latin: 9K+ active installs, 4.9★ (14 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-03. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/filenames-to-latin