Clean Filenames

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1. ★★★★★ Ishko

   5.4y ago

   Very useful and clean, strips every non standard character of all your filenames when uploading. Just activate and forget 🙂 Thanks to the dev for keeping the plugin updated, great job !

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2. ★★★★★ yasindedo1

   7.0y ago

   If you answer this review i will appreciate it. I dont ask for Turkish translation, as the plugins supports spanish and some other langs then i ask about Turkish. Does the plugin support Turkish characters like ĞİÜÇŞıÖ ?

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3. ★★★★★ Elías

   7.3y ago

   Previene problemas con tildes, así como homogeneiza los nombres de archivos que a veces se muestran en el frontend, como con el plugin WP Better Attachments.

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4. ★★★★★ floydik

   8.7y ago

   This plug-in do exactly what I except and there is no problem with Czech diacritics. If I was uploaded file name “příliš žluťoučký kůň úpěl ďábelské ódy.jpg” I’v got filename: /wp-content/uploads/2017/12/prilis-zlutoucky-kun-upel-dabelske-ody.jpg and Title příliš žluťoučký kůň úpěl ďábelské ódy. Great job. This topic was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by floydik.

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5. ★★★★★ Bjarne Oldrup

   8.9y ago

   As others, I need my filenames to be simple for plugins, backup, different OS’es etc to work without a hiccup, but my title I’d like left alone. So if I choose to upload a file called “Test æøå ÆØÅ +(plus) !(udråbstegn).txt”, I want a sane filename, but the original title where I insert the media… This plugin does that perfectly, where others also changes the title… Tested with Danish letters, works great 🙂

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6. ★★★★★ Larzans

   9.4y ago

   Very good character replacements (ä->a, …) and to be safe a final filtering of the filename to prevent unwanted (and unknown) characters from being used. I tried a few plugins of this type, and this is definately the best.

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7. ★★★★★ Gregory

   9.9y ago

   Fix issues with some weird plugins and their stupid developers. Work as described except spaces in filename. The plugin just don’t handle it correctly.

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8. ★★★★★ pengabelot

   12.5y ago

   Transforms filenames of media you upload, converting local characters as à -> a, á -> a, è -> e, … ç -> c, ñ -> n, … This prevents errors, in my case some problems when I’m doing a copy of my website to my local disc via FTP, because Filezilla is unable to download media files with this kind of characters.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.2.4 Changed priority for Gravity Forms integration. 1.2.4
2. — Version 1.2.3 Added additional support for files uploaded using single upload Gravity Forms fields. Thanks to my buddy David Smith! 🙂 1.2.3
3. — Version 1.2.2 Added filter scf_friendly_filename to allow additional changes to the filename before returning it to WP. Minor changes to make code 100% compliant with WordPress Coding Standards. This doesn’t means any change in the pl 1.2.2
4. — Version 1.2 Added remove_accents() WP core function as first step instead of previous own custom replacement array for accents. 1.2
5. — Version 1.1.1 Minor coding standards improvements. 1.1.1
6. — Version 1.1 Fixed bug introduced in 1.0.9. Thanks to Edu from etmsoft for reporting it. 1.1

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.2

Translated into 4 languages, 4 at 90% or more

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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).

• F Filenames to latin 9K+ installs · 4.4★ · 3 shared tags D
• M MD5 Media Renamer 400+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags D
• Clean Image Filenames 30K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags B
• M Make Filename Lowercase 1K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B
• H Healthy filename 200+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D
• RY Nice Upload FileName 100+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D

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Clean Filenames: 3K+ active installs, 4.6★ (8 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/sanitize-spanish-filenames