Rename Media Files: Improve Your WordPress SEO
Enhance SEO and organize media effortlessly with Rename Media Files WordPress Plugin. Fix upload issues, santize & optimize filenames, and improve …
4.8(40 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 2 months agoAs of April 2026, Rename Media Files: Improve Your WordPress SEO is a WordPress seo plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 40 reviews. It has been downloaded 258K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0.0+ and PHP 5.3+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 29% this week. Top alternative: Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time….
4.8/540 reviews
10K+active installs
258K+total downloads
13 yearssince 2013
Overview
“One of the most important plugins on our site: Perfect plugin for our free stock photo website picjumbo. We’re using it for years to automatically rename our P001120.jpg photos to SEO-focused names like business-woman-using-a-computer-free-photo.jpg. This plugin really works! Thanks!” – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ viktorhanacek
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The “Rename Media Files: Improve Your WordPress SEO” plugin will simplify the process of managing media file names (images, PDFs, etc) and metadata, ensuring a tidy and search engine-friendly media repository.
If you’re an SEO guru and would like to make a better website for search engines by focusing on Image SEO, or someone who enjoys their files to be perfectly organized, this plugin will turn your dreams in…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
empty file name on add media
by x24help·1 year ago·7 replies
Hi
there is empty file name on upload:
Media -> Add new
Maybe the original file name is work when no post title found 😉
Very good and sufficient for our school website
by koehlersmichael·2 years ago
For basic functions in the free version it’s completely sufficient for us and does what it’s supposed to do. Thanks!
Renames Plugin Files
by Dev O·3 years ago
This is a nice plugin, but I encountered issues on my theme as it broke parts of my site after it renamed some of my theme and plugin files automatically. Took me time to realize it was the culprit 🙂 .
Very useful plugin!
by Jensen·3 years ago
I just wish there was an option to put all words with the first letter in uppercase.
Works perfect
by onsecrethunt·4 years ago
This plugin is amazing.
Download Trends
Today: 39Yesterday: 32This week: 257Period total: 31K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.0.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 5.3+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.6
73.1%
v2.5
15.3%
Other
5.9%
v2.4
5.6%
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Changelog
2.6.7 – 2026/01/14
- Updated cross-selling library to version 1.0.9.
- Updated Key Manager library to version 1.0.8.
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