Automatically formats the title (and optionally the ALT field) for new media uploads. No need to manually edit the title anymore every time you upload …
As of April 2026, Format Media Titles is a WordPress alt plugin with 5.0K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 18 reviews. It has been downloaded 55K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 12% this week. Top alternative: Seo Optimized Images.
Format Media Titles WordPress plugin allows you to format titles for newly uploaded media items. It can be pretty tedious to have to manually edit the title for newly uploaded media items. This Plugin automates things by removing and replacing characters from the title such as hyphens, and underscores, with spaces. The title can then be capitalized by a method of your choice:
You will especially benefit from this Plugin if your media files have descriptive names, as you won’t have to manually edit them at all after uploading them!
As well as formatting the title for newly uploaded media items, you ca…
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Works perfectly, easy to use, good for SEO. Saves a lot of time!
Before I found this plugin, I used to copy details from image title to other form. Few images no problem, bunch of images now that’s the problem. With this plugin I can skip that filling form thing and save a lot of time.
While this plugin creates a nice formatted title, it is worthless without installing yet another plugin, that ads the title tag into your posts and pages. WordPress has removed the title tag since version 3.5 (5 years ago). When I finally took the time to explain the issue to the developer, he added the feature to the PAID version, but not to the free version. He then offered me a 50% discount to buy my own ideas… If you don’t want to pay for having your image titles in your post, simply install the “Restore Image Title” plugin together with the free version and you’re all set.
This is one of my go-to plugins for all my sites, particularly image-heavy ones. Saves so much time and very simple to use.
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 5.4.19 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Updated to work with WordPress 5.4.2.
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