Replace Image

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1. ★★★★★ pebweb

   1.2y ago

   I didn’t understand how it worked at the beginning. And I’m sure those who wrote bad reviews felt the same way. But now I’ve understood how to do it and it works perfectly.The plugin doesn’t work like others out of this category. I like the way it’s done, but if you can solve this so that people know how to use it from the start, you’ll hardly get any more one-star ratings.

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2. ★★★★★ mellowvision

   1.4y ago

   Ideally, there would be a setting like “Enable Drag to replace” and this would allow me to drag and drop a replacement file into the media file upload screen, with the same name as an existing file already in the uploads, and overwrite that existing file. I do not want the editors to have to find an original file to replace it with a new one. I just want them to upload the new one.

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3. ★★★★★ aaylasecura

   1.6y ago

   It does exactly what it’s supposed to do. I don’t know why some people say that it creates a new image instead of replacing, perhaps they don’t complete the process… Yes, you need to upload the new image so temporarily, after step 1, there’s the old and the new image. But then you select the new image as the replacement and the plugin moves the new onto the old one, completely replacing it and there’s no extra copy of it. Also note that if you have any image compression plugins that create for example webp version, you’ll have to manually delete and re-create those versions. This topic was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by aaylasecura.

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4. ★★★★★ jeanjohnson2911

   1.6y ago

   Thank you!

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5. ★★★★★ matthewstidham

   1.7y ago

   Works like a charm

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6. ★★★★★ neotek9

   2.0y ago

   Great plugin. I use it all the time. Thank you. 🙂

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7. ★★★★★ brianpg0

   2.1y ago

   This plugin works for Images AND files so before I found this plugin I was deleting the original file, then uploading the updated version. I then had to go to everywhere the file was installed and update it’s URL and then the cache had to be refreshed until I could be sure that everything was ok. Now with Replace Image I simply upload the updated file and open the original and click replace, simple, no changing URL’s or playing with cache, love it.

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8. ★★★★★ Iamhere

   2.1y ago

   Tried the others, didn’t work, tried this one, worked first time and seems more intuitive to be able to copy alt text etc. Thank you for producing and maintaining this valuable tool. The community thanks you.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.1.8 Add “Replace With AI Image” button 1.1.8
2. — Version 1.1.7 Updated links, author, changed branding to WP Zone Updated tested up to Removed donation links, Added aspengrovestudios as contributor Updated banner and icon 1.1.7
3. — Version 1.1.6 Plugin now deletes files associated with the old image prior to replacement 1.1.6
4. — Version 1.1.5 Fixed non-critical PHP warning 1.1.5
5. — Version 1.1.3 Fixed undefined offset error per https://wordpress.org/support/topic/undefined-index-0-on-line-100-mainfile?replies=1 1.1.3
6. — Version 1.1.1 Added support for image replacement where the image file being replaced doesn’t exist Removed anonymous functions 1.1.1

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 4.3 Replace Image <= 1.1.10 - Insecure Direct Object Reference ↗
   2024-06-18 CVE-2024-4873 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key Affects <= 1.1.10 Patched in 1.1.11

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.5.5

Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-07-10 9K+ → 8K+ down after 246 days in tier
2. 2025-11-06 10K+ → 9K+ down after 1 days in tier
3. 2025-11-05 9K+ → 10K+ up after 5 days in tier
4. 2025-10-31 10K+ → 9K+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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• Media Library Assistant 70K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A
• Simple Image Sizes 60K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A
• Default Featured Image 60K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A

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Replace Image: 8K+ active installs, 4.6★ (65 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-28. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/replace-image